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History of Art

SCQF Level 08 (6 courses)

Code Availability Course Name Period Credits
HIAR08025 SV1 History of Art 1A Art and Belief in Europe, 500 to 1700 Semester 1 20
HIAR08029 History of Art 1A: Images and Identity, 500-1700 Not delivered this year 20
HIAR08026 SV1 History of Art 1B Art at the Crossroads of World Cultures 600 to 1700 Semester 2 20
HIAR08030 History of Art 1B: Making Meaning in the Premodern World Not delivered this year 20
HIAR08027 SV1 History of Art 2A Reason, Romance, Revolution: Art from 1700 to 1900 Semester 1 20
HIAR08028 SV1 History of Art 2B From Modernism and the Avant-Gardes to Postmodernism and Globalisation Semester 2 20

SCQF Level 10 (97 courses)

Code Availability Course Name Period Credits
HIAR10206 African Photography: Core Themes Not delivered this year 20
HIAR10212 SV1 African art and material cultures: Beyond stereotypes Semester 1 20
HIAR10128 After Aesthetics: Philosophy and/as Art Not delivered this year 20
HIAR10162 SS1 Analysing Art History: Texts, Objects, Institutions (Non-Compulsory Year Abroad) Semester 2 20
HIAR10171 SV1 Analysing Art History: Texts, Objects, Institutions, Part One Semester 1 20
HIAR10170 SV1 Analysing Art History: Texts, Objects, Institutions, Part Two Semester 2 20
HIAR10008 SV1 Antiquity Recovered: Imag(in)ing Pompeii and Herculaneum Semester 1 20
HIAR10159 Art History: Texts, Objects, Institutions, Part One Not delivered this year 20
HIAR10158 Art History: Texts, Objects, Institutions, Part Two Not delivered this year 20
HIAR10190 Art and Archaeology of the Silk Road, 500-1000 AD Not delivered this year 20
HIAR10183 SV1 Art and Capitalist Life Semester 1 20
HIAR10123 SS1 Art of Catholic Reform 1534-1610 Semester 2 20
HIAR10164 Art, Culture and Inequality Not delivered this year 20
HIAR10120 Avant-Gardes and Individuals: Art in France, 1886-1900 Not delivered this year 20
HIAR10195 SS1 Aztec Imperial Art Semester 2 20
HIAR10172 SV1 Bad Painting: Humour, Sarcasm and Stupidity in Modern and Contemporary Art Semester 2 20
HIAR10160 Bernini: Technologies of Wonder Not delivered this year 20
HIAR10155 SS1 Blood, bones, and bodies: Buddhist relics in Asia Semester 1 20
HIAR10211 SV1 Bodies of Change: Gender, Sexuality and Medicine in France, 1852-1914 Semester 2 20
HIAR10135 SS1 Breaking Frames: Women in Dada and Surrealism Semester 1 20
HIAR10191 SS1 Brutalisms Semester 1 20
HIAR10167 Charlatans and Connoisseurs: the development of the modern art market from Gambart to Kahnweiler Not delivered this year 20
HIAR10106 SS1 Chinese Painting and Calligraphy: The Elite World of China Semester 1 20
HIAR10087 City as a Work of Art: Western Urbanism 1960 to the Present Day Not delivered this year 20
HIAR10209 SS1 Contemporary African American and Black British Visual Culture Semester 2 20
HIAR10217 SV1 Countercultures of Art: Light, Psychedelia and Behaviour, 1955-1975 Semester 1 20
HIAR10143 SS1 Cradle to Grave: Art and Society in Britain from Holbein to Hogarth Semester 1 20
HIAR10156 SS1 Curating Contemporary Art: Histories, Theories and Practice Semester 2 20
HIAR10104 Dada and Surrealism: The Shattered Subject Not delivered this year 20
HIAR10182 Democracy, Funding and the Arts: Understanding Cultural Policy Not delivered this year 20
HIAR10006 SS1 Dissertation (History of Art and Combined Degrees) Full Year 40
HIAR10219 SV1 Documentary Film, c.1920 to the present Semester 2 20
HIAR10201 Empire, Colony, Art: South Asia's Long Nineteenth Century Not delivered this year 20
HIAR10029 SV1 Europe 1900: Nationalism and Decadence at the Fin-De-Siecle Semester 2 20
HIAR10084 Eve's Children: Art and Gender 600-1400 Not delivered this year 20
HIAR10208 Examining Exhibitions: How Histories of Modern and Contemporary Art Are (Re)Made Through Exhibitions Not delivered this year 20
HIAR10014 Expanding Vision: Visual Culture in France from the Limbourgs to Leonardo Not delivered this year 20
HIAR10109 Expressionism, Dada, Bauhaus and Beyond Not delivered this year 20
HIAR10200 SV1 Feminist Avant-gardes of the 1970s Semester 1 20
HIAR10005 SS1 Fine Art Dissertation Full Year 40
HIAR10154 Forms of Life in Modern and Contemporary Art Not delivered this year 20
HIAR10009 From Jacobitism to Romanticism: The (Re)invention of Scotland in Visual and Material Culture Not delivered this year 20
HIAR10202 SS1 From Versailles to La Guillotine: Visualising the Cost of Luxury, 1682-1804 Semester 2 20
HIAR10124 SV1 Golden Age Spain: Art, Politics and Religion Semester 1 20
HIAR10063 Goya: 'The last of the old masters and the first of the new' Not delivered this year 20
HIAR10140 History of Art Analytical Project A Not delivered this year 20
HIAR10141 History of Art Analytical Project B Not delivered this year 20
HIAR10157 SS1 History of Art Work Placement Semester 2 20
HIAR10114 How to Make Italian Renaissance Art: Media, Methods and Materials in Theory and Practice 1400-1550 Not delivered this year 20
HIAR10193 Image Politics: A Global History of Photography Not delivered this year 20
HIAR10180 Images Under Control: Aesthetics of Digital Culture Not delivered this year 20
HIAR10188 SV1 Imaging/Imagining the Americas: Cartography and Ecology across the Renaissance Atlantic Semester 2 20
HIAR10203 Latin American 'Photographies' Not delivered this year 20
HIAR10207 SV1 Living Frames: Nature, Body and Display in Premodern Art Semester 2 20
HIAR10148 Looking at Women in Renaissance and Baroque Art Not delivered this year 20
HIAR10179 Manuscripts, Artists & Audiences: Introduction to the Medieval Codex Not delivered this year 20
HIAR10107 Modern Art in Shanghai, 1840-1930 Not delivered this year 20
HIAR10147 Narrative and Storytelling in South Asian Art, from Antiquity to Modernity Not delivered this year 20
HIAR10119 SS1 Orientalism and Visual Culture Semester 2 20
HIAR10134 SV1 Picturing Authority: Art and Politics at the Tudor and Stuart Courts Semester 2 20
HIAR10215 Picturing Power: Black Photographers and Photographic Histories in USA 1845-1945 Not delivered this year 20
HIAR10186 SV1 Picturing Science in Premodern Manuscripts and Printed Books Semester 2 20
HIAR10149 Poetics, Piety, Politics: Approaching Indian Painting 1500-1900 Not delivered this year 20
HIAR10069 Poverty and Patronage: Francis, Dominic and the Arts Not delivered this year 20
HIAR10214 Radical Art Schools: Experiment and Activism in Art Education after the Academy Not delivered this year 20
HIAR10145 SS1 Radical Nature: art and ecology from Joseph Beuys to the Present Day Semester 1 20
HIAR10108 Romanticism to Expressionism Not delivered this year 20
HIAR10169 SS1 Romantics, Rebels and Revivalists: From Highland Glen to Scotland's Shrine, Scottish Art 1850-1927 Semester 1 20
HIAR10070 Rome: From Imperial Capital to Holy City, c. 300-1300 Not delivered this year 20
HIAR10035 SV1 Scottish Art in the Age of Change 1945-2000 Semester 2 20
HIAR10066 SV1 Sexual Politics and the Image Semester 1 20
HIAR10139 Sexuality, Space and the Cinema Not delivered this year 20
HIAR10068 Sinners, Saints and Seers: Scottish, Irish and English art from 600-900 Not delivered this year 20
HIAR10166 SS1 Stars, Robots, and Talismans: Science, Magic & Medieval Islamic Visual Culture Semester 2 20
HIAR10192 Tales of Love and Violence: An Epic History of Persian Painting (12th-20th century) Not delivered this year 20
HIAR10065 SS1 The Aesthetics and Politics of Contemporary Art Semester 2 20
HIAR10213 The Art of Disegno: Creating in Renaissance Italy Not delivered this year 20
HIAR10174 The Art of Revolution: A Century of Russian Visual Culture Not delivered this year 20
HIAR10165 SV1 The Arts in the Age of the Great Caliphs 650-1250 Semester 1 20
HIAR10218 The Body Beloved: Sexuality and Desire in Medieval Art Not delivered this year 20
HIAR10013 The Detailed Imagination: Netherlandish Painting in the Age of Jan van Eyck Not delivered this year 20
HIAR10197 SV1 The Making of 'Black British' Art and Film Semester 2 20
HIAR10152 The Minimalist Moment: American Art, 1960-1975 Not delivered this year 20
HIAR10185 The Mirrors of Art: Painting and Reflection in Early Modern Europe Not delivered this year 20
HIAR10199 The Modern Art Museum (Level 10) Not delivered this year 20
HIAR10187 SS1 The Optics of Devotion: Sight, Light and Experiencing the Divine in Medieval Europe Semester 1 20
HIAR10175 The Performative Turn: Performance and Live Art since 1945 Not delivered this year 20
HIAR10196 The Politics of Postwar Abstraction: Diaspora, Decolonisation, Liberation Not delivered this year 20
HIAR10204 The Power in Small Things, 1700-1900 Not delivered this year 20
HIAR10053 The Renaissance Body Not delivered this year 20
HIAR10130 The Rise of the Aesthetic: Art, Nature and the Ideal Not delivered this year 20
HIAR10184 Timeless Heroines: Feminism and Sociability in South Asian Art Not delivered this year 20
HIAR10210 SV1 Towards a Global History of Photography Semester 1 20
HIAR10205 Utopia Zones: Modernism and Abstraction (Level 10) Not delivered this year 20
HIAR10163 SV1 Visions of the Buddha: Religious Art in Medieval Japan Semester 1 20
HIAR10198 SS1 Wartime: Military encounters in British art from the Seven Years' War (1756-63) to the Battle of Waterloo (1815) [L10] Semester 2 20
HIAR10216 SV1 Women at Work: Gender, Labour, and Creativity in Premodern European Art Semester 2 20

SCQF Level 11 (64 courses)

Code Availability Course Name Period Credits
HIAR11113 SV1 Approaching World Objects Semester 1 20
HIAR11131 Archives of Dissent, Repertoires of Resistance: Photography and Civil Rights Not delivered this year 20
HIAR11099 Around 900: The Early Islamic West in a Global Context Not delivered this year 20
HIAR11092 SV1 Art and Cultural Exchange in Mughal India 1500-1900 Semester 1 20
HIAR11106 Art and Digital Culture Not delivered this year 20
HIAR11109 Art and Occultism in the Long Nineteenth Century Not delivered this year 20
HIAR11034 Art and Sexuality in Renaissance Italy Not delivered this year 20
HIAR11054 SV1 Art and Society in the Contemporary World: China Semester 1 20
HIAR11105 SV1 Art for the Afterlife: Buddhist Relics in Asian Material Culture Semester 1 20
HIAR11137 SV1 Battleground: Nineteenth-, Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century African American Portraitures Semester 1 20
HIAR11132 Charlatans and Connoisseurs: the development of the modern art market from Gambart to Kahnweiler (Level 11) Not delivered this year 20
HIAR11123 Chinese Ink Art in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries Not delivered this year 20
HIAR11055 Chinese Painting and Calligraphy: The Elite World of China Not delivered this year 20
HIAR11093 SS1 Collections: Theories, Practices and Methods Full Year 20
HIAR11135 SV1 Contemporary Artists' Film and Video Semester 1 20
HIAR11063 Critical Episodes in Twentieth-Century German Art: Cultural Exchanges and Divisions Not delivered this year 20
HIAR11122 Curating after 1989: Exhibitions, Institutions, Politics Not delivered this year 20
HIAR11104 Córdoba & Constantinople: Exchange & Competition between the Umayyad and Byzantine Courts Not delivered this year 20
HIAR11117 SV1 Digital Islamic Art History Semester 2 20
HIAR11017 Dissertation (MSc in History of Art, Theory and Display) Not delivered this year 60
HIAR11040 Expanding the Book: Image and Literacy in Valois France Not delivered this year 20
HIAR11022 From Jacobitism to Romanticism, The (re)invention of Scotland in visual and material culture Not delivered this year 20
HIAR11133 From Versailles to Napoleon III: Visualising the Cost of Luxury, 1682-1873 Not delivered this year 20
HIAR11138 SS1 Global Premodern Cities Semester 2 20
HIAR11112 Global Rome Not delivered this year 20
HIAR11094 SS1 Guided Research Placement Full Year 60
HIAR11114 SS1 History of Art MSc Dissertation Block 5 (Sem 2) and beyond 60
HIAR11126 SS1 History of Art Work Placement (Level 11) Full Year 20
HIAR11136 SV1 Human Nature: Looking at Ourselves and Others in Northern European Art, 1400-1600 Semester 1 20
HIAR11116 SV1 Idolatry: Images and the Sacred in the Americas and Europe, 1400-1700. Semester 1 20
HIAR11134 Images, Politics and the Contemporary African Public Sphere Not delivered this year 20
HIAR11021 SV1 Impressionism and the Third Republic, Culture, Politics and Social Change, 1865-1900 Semester 1 20
HIAR11107 SV1 Inequality in the arts: Understanding the production and consumption of culture. Semester 2 20
HIAR11103 Internship in a Museum or Public Institution Not delivered this year 20
HIAR11028 SS1 MSc by Research in History of Art Dissertation Block 5 (Sem 2) and beyond 60
HIAR11128 Makers and Making in Insular Art (Ireland and Britain, AD 600-1100) Not delivered this year 20
HIAR11119 Memorials and Cultural Memory Not delivered this year 20
HIAR11120 SV1 Modern and Contemporary Art of the Black Atlantic Semester 2 20
HIAR11078 SV1 Patronage of the Papal Court 1471-1534 Semester 1 20
HIAR11082 SV1 Picturing Authority: Art and Politics at the Tudor and Stuart Courts Semester 2 20
HIAR11129 SV1 Premodern Textiles in Europe Semester 2 20
HIAR11121 Raphael and the Architecture of His Age Not delivered this year 20
HIAR11037 SV1 Research: Theories and Methods Semester 1 20
HIAR11044 Rome across Time and Space. Visual Culture and Cultural exchanges, c. 300-1300 Not delivered this year 20
HIAR11066 SV1 Scottish Art Since the 1960s: Practice and Debate Semester 2 20
HIAR11026 SS1 Supervised Research in History of Art 1 Semester 1 40
HIAR11027 SS1 Supervised Research in History of Art 2 Semester 2 40
HIAR11083 Surrealism, Violence and History Not delivered this year 20
HIAR11111 The Aesthetics and Politics of Contemporary Art Not delivered this year 20
HIAR11095 SV1 The Aesthetics of Difference: Post-Colonial Perspectives from the 19th to the 21st century Semester 1 20
HIAR11139 The Artist and the Machine: Technologies of Behaviour and Control in Modern and Contemporary Art Not delivered this year 20
HIAR11043 SV1 The Celtic Question : Art in early Britain and Ireland Semester 2 20
HIAR11084 The Creative City in Theory and Practice Not delivered this year 20
HIAR11038 SV1 The Cultures and Politics of Display Semester 2 20
HIAR11124 SV1 The Modern Art Museum (Level 11) Semester 2 20
HIAR11089 SV1 The Need to Document: Contemporary Art from Performance to Biopolitics Semester 2 20
HIAR11036 SV1 Theorising Contemporary Art Semester 2 20
HIAR11100 Utopia Zones: Modernism and Abstraction Not delivered this year 20
HIAR11127 Wartime: Military encounters in British art from the Seven Years' War (1756-63) to the Battle of Waterloo (1815) [L11] Not delivered this year 20
HIAR11091 What Moves Them: Dance and Performance Art Since 1913 Not delivered this year 20
HIAR11125 SV1 Women Artists and Surrealism Semester 1 20
HIAR11130 SS1 Work-Based Dissertation in History of Art (Level 11) Full Year 60
HIAR11071 SS1 Work-based Dissertation in History of Art (MSc in History of Art, Theory and Display) Block 5 (Sem 2) and beyond 60
HIAR11079 SS1 Work-based Dissertation in History of Art (MSc in Modern and Contemporary Art: History, Curating, Criticism) Block 5 (Sem 2) and beyond 60
Key
Available to all students - SV
Not available to visiting students - SS
Part-year visiting students only - VV
 
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