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School of Art and Design · ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences
This course introduces students to the major artistic styles, movements and ideas that characterise art and creative practice from antiquity until the nineteenth century. It presents key concepts and methods in the history of art, design and curatorial studies for students of humanities and art and design practice. A particular focus is how images and objects shape ways of seeing, imagining and knowing the world, and how art and visual culture establish cultural meaning through material and form. Art and design—primarily from Europe, Asia and Australia—will be considered in terms of cultural beliefs, social meaning, historical experiences and systems of knowledge. The question of how to do art history will be approached through the study of key art historical methodologies, which will equip students with the tools to grapple meaningfully and engage critically with art from the past.
Research questionnaire (500 words)
Learning outcomes 1, 4, 5
Exhibition Review (1000 words)
Learning outcomes 1, 2, 3, 5
Research essay (2000 words)
Learning outcomes 1, 2, 4, 5
Class Participation
Learning outcomes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
130 hours of total student learning time made up from: a) 36 hours of contact over 12 weeks: 24 hours of lectures (lectures, panels, group activities), and 12 hours of tutorials; and b) 94 hours of independent student research, reading and writing. Contact hours may include visits to art galleries, museums and collection on ANU campus and in Canberra.
Not applicable Preliminary Reading Barbe-Gall, Françoise, How to Look at a Painting (London: Frances Lincoln, 2010). Bell, Julian. Mirror of the World: A New History of Art (London: Thames and Hudson, 2007). Berger, John, Ways of Seeing (London: BBC and Penguin Books, 2008). Green, Alexandra (ed.). Rethinking Visual Narratives from Asia: Intercultural and Comparative Perspectives (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2013). Harrison, Charles, Paul Wood, and Jason Gaiger (eds.), Art in Theory 1648-1815: An Anthology of Changing Ideas (London: Wiley-Blackwell, 2001). Hodge, Susie, How to Look at Art (London: Tate Publishing 2014). Kemp, Martin (ed.), The Oxford History of Western Art (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004). Linda Nochlin, 'Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?' (1971)