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Handbook 1997 : Faculty of Arts : Art History

111-101 Western Art B: Image and Identity

Note:

No student may receive credit for both this subject and 111-101 Introduction to Art History, Part B: The European Tradition, 16th to 19th Centuries or 111-101 From High Renaissance to Advent of Modernism: Moments of Cultural Change.

Credit Points:

12.5 1st year

Coordinator:

Dr Christopher Marshall

Timetable:

Semester 2

Contact:

Three hours of lectures, tutorials or workshops a week

Subject Description:

This subject focuses on key aspects of the art of the High Renaissance, Baroque, Rococo, and Neo-Classical periods and the Nineteenth century commencing with an analysis of Raphael's and Michelanglelo's work in the Rome of Pope Julius II and concluding with an examination of the realism of Courbet and the birth of the avant-garde.

The subject includes a major emphasis on the theme of the identity of the artist. The varying manifestations of the modern conceptions of the artist as a unique creator are traced from their birth in the fifteenth century to the culmination in the nineteenth century and beyond.

Methodologies are underscored throughout the subject as a crucial means of seeing beyond the work of art to the role played by the viewer in creating meanings. Methodologies to be examined include formal analysis, iconography, psychoanalysis, feminism, Marxism and cultural history.

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.
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