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Handbook 1997 : Faculty of Arts : Art History

111-100 Western Art A: Image and Interpretation

Note:

No student may receive credit for both this subject and 111-100 Introduction to Art History, Part A: The Art of Antiquity and Medieval Europe or 111-100 Framing Western Art: Moments of Cultural Change from Antiquity to Renaissance.

Credit Points:

12.5 1st year

Coordinator:

Dr Russell Staiff

Timetable:

Semester 1

Contact:

Three hours of lectures, tutorials or workshops each week

Subject Description:

This course is an introductory study of western art history that focuses on Classical Greece, Medieval France and Renaissance Italy, from c.600 BC-1500 AD. The subject explores the range of possibilities available for interpreting art and the various methodologies employed in these interpretations. To this end the subjects aims to develop an understanding of how art is made, what it communicates, how it communicates and how it relates to its site and its social and cultural context, especially the relationship between the image or monument and its urban setting, the image or monument and its patron and between the image or monument and the viewer.

Assessment:

Exercises and/or essays and/or visual test totalling not more than 4000 words.

Prescribed Texts:

  • Murray P and L, The Penguin Dictionary of Art and Artists, Penguin 1989.
  • Hall, J, Dictionary of Subjects and Symbols in Art, John Murray, London, 1984.
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