- Department: History of Art
- Module co-ordinator: Information currently unavailable
- Credit value: 20 credits
- Credit level: C
- Academic year of delivery: 2022-23
- See module specification for other years: 2021-22
This module is designed to both help you to become more aware of the rich complexity that is art history and to critically examine some wonderful texts that will assist you to challenge some of the more widespread and commonly held assumptions about artists, artworks, the practice of interpretation, and the discipline of art history.
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A | Spring Term 2022-23 |
This module is designed to both help you to become more aware of the rich complexity that is art history and to critically examine some wonderful texts that will assist you to challenge some of the more widespread and commonly held assumptions about artists, artworks, the practice of interpretation, and the discipline of art history.
By focussing in detail on two or three texts per session, the course is designed to hone your close reading skills and powers of literary, critical and rhetorical analysis, as well as your powers of verbal argumentation through discussion of these texts in class. At the same time, the course is designed to explore ways in which art history is a constantly shifting, endlessly changing practice, itself culturally contingent, rather than a set of universalist practices or rules.
By the end of the module, you should have developed:
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Essay/coursework Essay |
N/A | 100 |
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Essay/coursework Essay |
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You will receive feedback on assessed work within the timeframes set out by the University - please check the Guide to Assessment, Standards, Marking and Feedback for more information.
The purpose of feedback is to help you to improve your future work. If you do not understand your feedback or want to talk about your ideas further, you are warmly encouraged to meet your Supervisor during their Office Hours.
We strongly recommend that for this module you purchase a copy of:
This book provides a set of essays on key themes in art history, written by leading scholars. Several of these essays will be recommended reading throughout the term, and for copyright reasons it will not be possible to make these available digitally, so it will be to your great advantage to have your own copy. It is available for under £20 in paperback and as a Kindle book. Please be sure to buy the second edition, 2003, rather than the first edition of 1996, as some of the essays we recommend are not included in the first edition.
Other overviews of theoretical approaches used in art history which you may find useful as supplementary or preliminary reading include: