Art & Design History

<div id="tab2" class="tab grid_8 alpha hide-on-small" style="display: block;"> <div class="courseLinks hide-on-medium-down"> <img src="/media/liverpoolhope/styleassets/cssimages/media,975,en.gif" alt="print Icon" style="width : 24px; height : 24px; "> <span><a href="javascript:window.print()">print this page</a></span> <span class="st_sharethis_custom" st_processed="yes"><a href="#">share this course</a></span> </div> <h2>Curriculum</h2> <p><strong>Level 1:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Themes and Issues in Art and Design History (part 1 and 2)</li> </ul> <p>This element will be the starting point of a lecture and seminar series that will address major themes and issues surrounding the production of Art and Design works from Antiquity to the present day. <em>Themes and Issues in Art and Design History 1</em> will begin with exploring Greek and Roman Art and chronologically move on to the Middle Ages discussing medieval painting and sculpture as well as illuminated manuscripts. <em>Art and Design History 2</em> will begin with exploring Renaissance Art in the North and the South and move chronologically on to the 19^th century and finish with examining the beginnings of Modernity.</p> <ul> <li>Art and Design History: Close Up Lecture</li> </ul> <p>Most Close Up lectures will be based on the Themes and Issues in Art and Design History 1 and 2 lectures. They will offer the opportunity to look at a very specific aspect in more detail. This could be a specific artist or art work, making a connection of the Themes and Issues lecture topic to a different period that shows certain parallels, it could be visual material such as films or video clips.</p> <ul> <li>Art and Design: Historical and Contemporary Practices</li> </ul> <p>This element will address art and design in relation to the development of the industrial and post-industrial city, with particular reference to Liverpool and the North West of England. Liverpool’s dynamic history, its architecture and infrastructure will be a key focus, but the course also examines how artists and designers have responded to this history and used it as a foundation for their work and ideas. Key terms such as industrialism, post-industrialism and gentrification will be discussed. The element responds to contemporary practice across the range of Fine Art and Design disciplines through a series of contributions from practitioners, theorists and historians. It will in addition, through study visits, consider how contemporary practice is displayed in the context of the museum and gallery.</p> <p><strong>&nbsp;Level 2:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Themes and Issues in Art and Design History (part3)</li> </ul> <p>This element is the continuation of the <em>Themes and Issues in Art and Design History</em> lecture and seminar series that started in Level 1. Now that you have studied Art and Design History from Antiquity to late 19^th century, we will look at Art and Design and connected theoretical frame works from the late 19^th, 20^th and 21^st centuries.</p> <ul> <li>Special Topic</li> </ul> <p>A lecture and seminar series based on tutors’ specialist areas (e.g. Propaganda Art, Realism in Art or Narratives of Production, from the division of labour to contemporary craftivism)<strong>.</strong></p> <ul> <li>Professional Practice for Art and Design History</li> </ul> <p>This lecture introduces students to basic aspects of exhibition planning, project management and fundraising. The practical components will take place in the seminar and are largely self-directed. Students will be encouraged to establish an autonomous method of inquiry over the course leading to a year-group exhibition at the end of the academic year</p> <ul> <li>Special Study Proposal</li> </ul> <p>The Special Study Element provides students with the opportunity to submit a professionally presented and in-depth study that further develops and strengthens: subject knowledge, research skills, critical analysis and written communication skills.</p> <p>It allows students to work independently and in depth on a chosen subject relating to Fine and Applied Arts, which must be discussed and agreed with the supervising tutor.</p> <p><strong>&nbsp;Level 3:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Professional Practice for Art and Design History</li> <li>Aesthetics</li> </ul> <p class="Default">This course offers the opportunity to study some of the key aesthetic concepts which affect the making and understanding of art and design. The study of aesthetics is fascinating and challenging. It offers insights into the reasons why artists and designers make what they do and what we, as viewers, feel when we look at their work. . Through intensive study of these concepts, students will be introduced to a wide range of writers and philosophers of art, design and wider culture, spanning centuries of Western history.</p> <ul> <li>Critical Writing</li> </ul> <p>This course offers the opportunity to reflect on interpretations of art and design practice through a study of the critical discourse surrounding those practices. The course encourages students to critically analyse critical texts relating to art and design practice, focusing on the five key formats of: writing about practice; interviews; criticism; writing about installation; and exhibition reviews. It also encourages students to engage closely with their own art and design practice, connecting the making of art and design with analytical critique.</p> <ul> <li>Advanced Museum and Gallery Theory</li> </ul> <p class="Default">This element is structured as a series of lectures given by a diverse range of visiting speakers and complemented with a programme of theoretical lectures. It is aimed at all art and design history students, providing a breadth of content which is cross disciplinary and which encourages ideation (the formation of ideas and concepts) and celebrates innovative practice.</p> <p class="Default">The lectures are designed to encourage an exploration of the ways in which the art and design gallery is implicated in constructions of meaning of an artwork or artefact and students will develop the ability to apply theoretical knowledge to ‘readings’ of visual images and objects in relation to specific locations.</p> <ul> <li>Special Study&nbsp;</li> </ul> <p>Development of the Special Study Proposal into a 5,000 word thesis.</p> <h2>You may also be interested in...</h2> <p><a href="/undergraduate/undergraduatecourses/creativeandperformingarts/">Creative and Performing Arts</a></p> <p><a href="/undergraduate/undergraduatecourses/design/">Design</a></p> <p><a href="/undergraduate/undergraduatecourses/fineart/">Fine Art</a></p> <p><a href="/undergraduate/undergraduatecourses/history/">History</a></p> </div>