107-407 Form and Meaning in Spanish Art

Formerly available as 107-041. Students who have completed 107-041 are not eligible to enrol in this subject.

Admission to the postgraduate diploma or fourth-year honours in art history.

This subject examines Spanish art from the late 15th to the early 18th century. The subject will be structured around individual works of art which will provide ways of understanding the society in which they were created and the particular qualities that make a work of art identifiably Spanish. Topics that will be treated include the influence of broader European artistic culture and the assimilation and reinterpretation of these influences by Spanish artists; the establishment of powerful artistic centres which largely operated independently; and the reasons for the remarkably diversity of art produced in Spain. Students should develop an understanding of significant theoretical, historiographic and methodological issues which contribute to the ways we view Spanish art.