| Code |
Availability |
Course Name |
Period |
Credits |
| HIAR10206 |
SS1 |
African Photography: Core Themes |
Semester 2 |
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 |
| HIAR10177 | |
Animal Bodies in the Art and Visual Culture of Seventeenth-Century Europe |
Not delivered this year |
20 |
| HIAR10008 |
SV1 |
Antiquity Recovered: Imag(in)ing Pompeii and Herculaneum |
Semester 1 |
20 |
| HIAR10105 | |
Art After Photography |
Not delivered this year |
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 | |
Art and Capitalist Life |
Not delivered this year |
20 |
| HIAR10194 | |
Art in Edinburgh (Level 10) |
Not delivered this year |
20 |
| HIAR10123 | |
Art of Catholic Reform 1534-1610 |
Not delivered this year |
20 |
| HIAR10164 |
SS1 |
Art, Culture and Inequality |
Semester 2 |
20 |
| HIAR10178 | |
Art, Illness and Death in the Middle Ages |
Not delivered this year |
20 |
| HIAR10120 |
SS1 |
Avant-Gardes and Individuals: Art in France, 1886-1900 |
Semester 2 |
20 |
| HIAR10195 |
SS1 |
Aztec Imperial Art |
Semester 1 |
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 |
| HIAR10135 |
SS1 |
Breaking Frames: Women in Dada and Surrealism |
Semester 1 |
20 |
| HIAR10191 |
SS1 |
Brutalisms |
Semester 1 |
20 |
| HIAR10122 | |
Caravaggio, 'the man who came to destroy painting,? |
Not delivered this year |
20 |
| HIAR10167 | |
Charlatans and Connoisseurs: the development of the modern art market from Gambart to Kahnweiler |
Not delivered this year |
20 |
| HIAR10106 | |
Chinese Painting and Calligraphy: The Elite World of China |
Not delivered this year |
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 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 |
| HIAR10201 |
SS1 |
Empire, Colony, Art: South Asia's Long Nineteenth Century |
Semester 1 |
20 |
| HIAR10181 | |
Envisioning the 'Foreign': European Depictions of Non-European Places and Cultures c.1550-c.1750 |
Not delivered this year |
20 |
| HIAR10029 |
SV1 |
Europe 1900: Nationalism and Decadence at the Fin-De-Siecle |
Semester 2 |
20 |
| HIAR10084 |
SS1 |
Eve's Children: Art and Gender 600-1400 |
Semester 2 |
20 |
| HIAR10208 |
SS1 |
Examining Exhibitions: How Histories of Modern and Contemporary Art Are (Re)Made Through Exhibitions |
Semester 2 |
20 |
| HIAR10014 |
SS1 |
Expanding Vision: Visual Culture in France from the Limbourgs to Leonardo |
Semester 2 |
20 |
| HIAR10109 |
SS1 |
Expressionism, Dada, Bauhaus and Beyond |
Semester 2 |
20 |
| HIAR10136 | |
FROM PERFORMANCE TO PARTICIPATION: ART AFTER 1968 |
Not delivered this year |
20 |
| HIAR10200 | |
Feminist Avant-gardes of the 1970s |
Not delivered this year |
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 |
| HIAR10138 | |
Histories and theories of photography |
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 | |
History of Art Work Placement |
Not delivered this year |
20 |
| HIAR10114 |
SV1 |
How to Make Italian Renaissance Art: Media, Methods and Materials in Theory and Practice 1400-1550 |
Semester 2 |
20 |
| HIAR10193 | |
Image Politics: A Global History of Photography |
Not delivered this year |
20 |
| HIAR10180 |
SS1 |
Images Under Control: Aesthetics of Digital Culture |
Semester 1 |
20 |
| HIAR10188 |
SV1 |
Imaging/Imagining the Americas: Cartography and Ecology across the Renaissance Atlantic |
Semester 2 |
20 |
| HIAR10077 | |
Impressionism, Decadence, Rhythm: Artists in France and Britain 1870-1914 |
Not delivered this year |
20 |
| HIAR10203 |
SV1 |
Latin American 'Photographies' |
Semester 2 |
20 |
| HIAR10207 |
SV1 |
Living Frames: Nature, Body and Display in Premodern Art |
Semester 1 |
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 |
| HIAR10126 | |
Miniatures, frescoes, icons: the figural arts in the Islamic world (7th-15th century) |
Not delivered this year |
20 |
| HIAR10107 |
SV1 |
Modern Art in Shanghai, 1840-1930 |
Semester 2 |
20 |
| HIAR10057 | |
Modernism and After: Art in America and Western Europe, 1945 - The Present Day |
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 1 |
20 |
| HIAR10151 | |
Outsider Art History |
Not delivered this year |
20 |
| HIAR10153 | |
Outsider Art History |
Not delivered this year |
20 |
| HIAR10168 | |
Photography in Modernism and Postmodernism |
Not delivered this year |
20 |
| HIAR10134 |
SV1 |
Picturing Authority: Art and Politics at the Tudor and Stuart Courts |
Semester 2 |
20 |
| HIAR10186 |
SV1 |
Picturing Science in Premodern Manuscripts and Printed Books |
Semester 2 |
20 |
| HIAR10149 |
SV1 |
Poetics, Piety, Politics: Approaching Indian Painting 1500-1900 |
Semester 2 |
20 |
| HIAR10069 | |
Poverty and Patronage: Francis, Dominic and the Arts |
Not delivered this year |
20 |
| HIAR10145 |
SS1 |
Radical Nature: art and ecology from Joseph Beuys to the Present Day |
Semester 1 |
20 |
| HIAR10176 | |
Representing Nature in Early Modern Northern Europe |
Not delivered this year |
20 |
| HIAR10108 |
SV1 |
Romanticism to Expressionism |
Semester 1 |
20 |
| HIAR10169 |
SS1 |
Romantics, Rebels and Revivalists: From Highland Glen to Scotland's Shrine, Scottish Art 1850-1927 |
Semester 2 |
20 |
| HIAR10070 | |
Rome: From Imperial Capital to Holy City, c. 300-1300 |
Not delivered this year |
20 |
| HIAR10035 | |
Scottish Art in the Age of Change 1945-2000 |
Not delivered this year |
20 |
| HIAR10066 |
SV1 |
Sexual Politics and the Image |
Semester 1 |
20 |
| HIAR10139 | |
Sexuality, Space and the Cinema |
Not delivered this year |
20 |
| HIAR10068 |
SV1 |
Sinners, Saints and Seers: Scottish, Irish and English art from 600-900 |
Semester 1 |
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 1 |
20 |
| HIAR10174 |
SV1 |
The Art of Revolution: A Century of Russian Visual Culture |
Semester 2 |
20 |
| HIAR10165 |
SV1 |
The Arts in the Age of the Great Caliphs 650-1250 |
Semester 1 |
20 |
| HIAR10013 |
SV1 |
The Detailed Imagination: Netherlandish Painting in the Age of Jan van Eyck |
Semester 2 |
20 |
| HIAR10197 |
SS1 |
The Making of 'Black British' Art and Film |
Semester 1 |
20 |
| HIAR10152 |
SV1 |
The Minimalist Moment: American Art, 1960-1975 |
Semester 1 |
20 |
| HIAR10185 | |
The Mirrors of Art: Painting and Reflection in Early Modern Europe |
Not delivered this year |
20 |
| HIAR10199 |
SV1 |
The Modern Art Museum (Level 10) |
Semester 2 |
20 |
| HIAR10187 |
SS1 |
The Optics of Devotion: Sight, Light and Experiencing the Divine in Medieval Europe |
Semester 1 |
20 |
| HIAR10175 |
SS1 |
The Performative Turn: Performance and Live Art since 1945 |
Semester 1 |
20 |
| HIAR10196 | |
The Politics of Postwar Abstraction: Diaspora, Decolonisation, Liberation |
Not delivered this year |
20 |
| HIAR10204 |
SV1 |
The Power in Small Things, 1700-1900 |
Semester 1 |
20 |
| HIAR10053 |
SS1 |
The Renaissance Body |
Semester 1 |
20 |
| HIAR10082 | |
The Rise of Islamic Art |
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 |
| HIAR10129 | |
Twentieth-Century Picasso |
Not delivered this year |
20 |
| HIAR10205 |
SS1 |
Utopia Zones: Modernism and Abstraction (Level 10) |
Semester 1 |
20 |
| HIAR10163 |
SV1 |
Visions of the Buddha: Religious Art in Medieval Japan |
Semester 1 |
20 |
| HIAR10198 | |
Wartime: Military encounters in British art from the Seven Years' War (1756-63) to the Battle of Waterloo (1815) [L10] |
Not delivered this year |
20 |
| Code |
Availability |
Course Name |
Period |
Credits |
| HIAR11113 |
SV1 |
Approaching World Objects |
Semester 1 |
20 |
| HIAR11131 |
SV1 |
Archives of Dissent, Repertoires of Resistance: Photography and Civil Rights |
Semester 2 |
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 |
SV1 |
Art and Digital Culture |
Semester 1 |
20 |
| HIAR11109 |
SV1 |
Art and Occultism in the Long Nineteenth Century |
Semester 1 |
20 |
| HIAR11034 |
SV1 |
Art and Sexuality in Renaissance Italy |
Semester 2 |
20 |
| HIAR11054 |
SV1 |
Art and Society in the Contemporary World: China |
Semester 2 |
20 |
| HIAR11105 |
SV1 |
Art for the Afterlife: Buddhist Relics in Asian Material Culture |
Semester 1 |
20 |
| HIAR11118 | |
Art in Edinburgh (Level 11) |
Not delivered this year |
20 |
| HIAR11132 |
SV1 |
Charlatans and Connoisseurs: the development of the modern art market from Gambart to Kahnweiler (Level 11) |
Semester 1 |
20 |
| HIAR11123 |
SV1 |
Chinese Ink Art in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries |
Semester 2 |
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 |
| HIAR11063 |
SS1 |
Critical Episodes in Twentieth-Century German Art: Cultural Exchanges and Divisions |
Semester 1 |
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 | |
Digital Islamic Art History |
Not delivered this year |
20 |
| HIAR11017 | |
Dissertation (MSc in History of Art, Theory and Display) |
Not delivered this year |
60 |
| HIAR11040 |
SV1 |
Expanding the Book: Image and Literacy in Valois France |
Semester 1 |
20 |
| HIAR11022 | |
From Jacobitism to Romanticism, The (re)invention of Scotland in visual and material culture |
Not delivered this year |
20 |
| HIAR11133 |
SV1 |
From Versailles to Napoleon III: Visualising the Cost of Luxury, 1682-1873 |
Semester 1 |
20 |
| HIAR11045 | |
Global Encounters in Medieval Art |
Not delivered this year |
20 |
| HIAR11112 |
SV1 |
Global Rome |
Semester 2 |
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 |
| HIAR11116 |
SV1 |
Idolatry: Images and the Sacred in the Americas and Europe, 1400-1700. |
Semester 1 |
20 |
| HIAR11134 |
SV1 |
Images, Politics and the Contemporary African Public Sphere |
Semester 2 |
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 | |
Modern and Contemporary Art of the Black Atlantic |
Not delivered this year |
20 |
| HIAR11035 | |
Mosques, Palaces and Gardens in the Golden Age of Islam |
Not delivered this year |
20 |
| HIAR11078 | |
Patronage of the Papal Court 1471-1534 |
Not delivered this year |
20 |
| HIAR11102 | |
Performance and Spectacle in Early Modern Europe |
Not delivered this year |
20 |
| HIAR11082 |
SV1 |
Picturing Authority: Art and Politics at the Tudor and Stuart Courts |
Semester 2 |
20 |
| HIAR11129 | |
Premodern Textiles in Europe |
Not delivered this year |
20 |
| HIAR11110 | |
Radical Change: The Modern Image and Political and Social Reform in Tehran, Istanbul and Bombay (1800-1950) |
Not delivered this year |
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 | |
Scottish Art Since the 1960s: Practice and Debate |
Not delivered this year |
20 |
| HIAR11026 |
SS1 |
Supervised Research in History of Art 1 |
Full Year |
40 |
| HIAR11027 |
SS1 |
Supervised Research in History of Art 2 |
Full Year |
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 |
| 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 | |
The Need to Document: Contemporary Art from Performance to Biopolitics |
Not delivered this year |
20 |
| HIAR11036 |
SV1 |
Theorising Contemporary Art |
Semester 1 |
20 |
| HIAR11115 | |
Twentieth-Century Picasso |
Not delivered this year |
20 |
| HIAR11086 | |
University Art Collections Project |
Not delivered this year |
20 |
| HIAR11100 |
SV1 |
Utopia Zones: Modernism and Abstraction |
Semester 1 |
20 |
| HIAR11108 | |
Verdant Landscapes: Early Modern Land Imaginaries |
Not delivered this year |
20 |
| HIAR11127 |
SV2 |
Wartime: Military encounters in British art from the Seven Years' War (1756-63) to the Battle of Waterloo (1815) [L11] |
Semester 2 |
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 | |
Work-Based Dissertation in History of Art (Level 11) |
Not delivered this year |
60 |
| HIAR11072 |
SS1 |
Work-based Dissertation in History of Art (MSc in Art in the Global Middle Ages) |
Block 5 (Sem 2) and beyond |
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 |
| ARHI11003 |
SV1 |
Architecture and Socialism: 1930 to the Present |
Semester 1 |
20 |
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