Showcasing Art History 2010-2011
Programme
AUTUMN TERM 2010:
The Real, the Ideal and the Abstract
Means and Ends of Image-Making in Western Art
During the autumn term, we explore the different ways in which Western artists have engaged with their external and internal worlds over the centuries. We investigate the philosophies and intentions behind radically different modes of art production, from the representation of a more or less ‘real’ or ideal ‘nature’ to the break-down of figuration in a number of influential avant-garde movements of the twentieth century.
October 5
Clare Richardson, Painting in Oil and Tempera: Van Eyck’s Secret?
October 12
Jim Harris, What Things Look Like: Donatello and the Surfaces of Sculpture
October 19
Dr Richard Williams, The Image of Elizabeth I: From Idealisation to Deification
October 26
Edward Payne, Ribera’s Realism
November 2
Dr Nancy Ireson, From the Beaux-Arts to the Bathers: rethinking early Seurat
November 9
Nicola Moorby, ‘Pictures of nothing': The development of Turner's late style
November 16
Dr Satish Padiyar, What is an Ideal Body? Ingres and the Nineteenth-Century Nude
November 23
Dr Caroline Levitt, Réalités nouvelles: from Cubism to Abstraction
November 30
Dr Jerzy Kierkuc-Bielinski, Abstract Expressionism
December 7
Dr Sarah James, Scratching the History of Man: The Real, the Ideal and the Abstract in Two Cold War ‘Photo-Essays’
SPRING TERM 2011:
Europe and the wider world
Artistic exchanges and cross-currents
from antiquity to the twentieth century
In the spring term, we investigate how artists throughout history have crossed national and cultural or religious boundaries and have absorbed important stylistic and thematic influences from other traditions. We explore artistic exchanges both within Europe and between the Western and Eastern worlds.
January 11
Dr Peter Stewart, From Rome to Afghanistan? The Mystery of Gandhara Sculpture
January 18
Dr Cecily Hennessy, Syria and its cross-currents
January 25
Dr Rose Walker, Christian and Islamic Arts in Early Medieval Spain
February 1
Dr Marta Ajmar, From Turkish carpets to Genoese porcelletta: Globalization and the Domestic Interior in Renaissance Italy
February 8
Dr Ursula Weekes, The Great Mughals and the Art of Europe
Februrary 15
Gail Turner, How Spanish is Spanish Art?
February 22
Dr Richard Williams, Rogier van der Weyden and Italian Renaissance Art
March 1
Dr Claire O’Mahony, A Modern Eden: Japonisme in nineteenth-century Art and Design
March 8
Dr Michael Douglas-Scott, Renaissance Venice and Print Culture
March 15
Dr Julian Stallabrass, The Fracturing of Globalised Art
SUMMER TERM 2011
In Focus
The Medieval and Renaissance Collections at The Courtauld Gallery
The summer term lectures aim to give you detailed insights into a number of outstanding works in The Courtauld Gallery, which will help us to explore important aspects of medieval and Renaissance art production more widely.
May 3
Professor John Lowden, Courtauld Ivories and the (Courtauld) Ivories Project
May 10
Dr Joanna Cannon, A fourteenth-century panel painting of St Lawrence and an artist with two names: investigating the Maestro di Figline/Master of the Fogg Pietà
May 17
Dr Jim Harris, André Beauneveu’s Virgin and Child [please note that this is a change of lecturer]
May 24
Dr Scott Nethersole, Sandro Botticelli’s Trinity altarpiece
May 31
Dr Stephanie Buck, Renaissance drawings at The Courtauld Gallery
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