This module is not currently running in 2024 to 2025.
The module will involve the study of a single artist of significance for the history of art. Through the in depth study of the works of art of a single artist, the interpretations made of them and the cultural significance of the artist's life and oeuvre, students will be introduced to a wide range of approaches and issues central to the theory and practice of the discipline of Art History.
Total Contact Hours: 30
Private Study Hours: 270
Total Study Hours: 300
This module is taught in Rome
• Essay (4,000 words) – 80%
• Portfolio -20%
Baxandall, M. (1985). Patterns of Intention: On the Historical Explanation of Pictures, New Haven & London: Yale University Press
Burke, S. (2010). The Death and Return of the Author: Criticism and Subjectivity in Barthes, Foucault, and Derrida, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press
Lee, H. (2011). Biography: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford: Oxford University Press
Wollheim, R. (1987). Painting as an Art, London: Thames & Hudson
These works introduce broad themes relating to the study of individual artists. The reading list will change with the choice of artist.
See the library reading list for this module (Canterbury)
On successfully completing the module students will be able to:
- Demonstrate an advanced and systematic knowledge of central trajectories and themes within the development of art;
- Demonstrate a developed comprehensive understanding of the major art-historical and critical paradigms in the scholarship on this field;
- Demonstrate advanced knowledge of the particular manifestation of artistic production during the period studied;
- Demonstrate complex skills of critical visual analysis through close study of works of art in the original;
- Reflect upon the specific problems of interpretation associated with studying art in relation to the career, biography, psychology and formulate intentions of its individual maker.
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