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ARTHIST 114
: Understanding Art: Leonardo to Warhol2020 Semester Two (1205)
Is seeing learned? Can an image be read in the same way as a text? Understanding images is central to everyday life. Visual literacy is fundamental to all disciplines. This course provides students with tools for making sense of various kinds of images and objects: photographs, advertisements, paintings, film, television, comics, cartoons, monuments, buildings, maps, landscape, digital and internet images.
Restriction: ARTHIST 109
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ARTHIST 114G
: Understanding Art: Leonardo to Dali2021 Semester One (1213)
Is seeing learned? Can an image be read in the same way as a text? Understanding images from different historic periods, from Leonardo da Vinci to Andy Warhol, is central to everyday life. Visual literacy is fundamental to all disciplines. This course provides students with tools for making sense of various kinds of images and objects: photographs, advertisements, paintings, film, television, monuments, buildings, maps, landscape, digital and internet images.
Restriction: ARTHIST 109
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ARTHIST 114G
: Understanding Art: Leonardo to Warhol2020 Semester Two (1205)
Is seeing learned? Can an image be read in the same way as a text? Understanding images from different historic periods, from Leonardo da Vinci to Andy Warhol, is central to everyday life. Visual literacy is fundamental to all disciplines. This course provides students with tools for making sense of various kinds of images and objects: photographs, advertisements, paintings, film, television, monuments, buildings, maps, landscape, digital and internet images.
Restriction: ARTHIST 109
379
ARTHIST 115
: Global Art Histories2025 Semester One (1253)
A broad survey of visual art spanning from the early modern period to the contemporary. Students will be introduced to a range of art practices situated within a global context and will consider art works produced in Māori and Pacific cultures alongside Indian, Asian, Middle Eastern, European and American traditions.
No pre-requisites or restrictions
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ARTHIST 115
: Global Art Histories2024 Semester Two (1245)
A broad survey of visual art spanning from the early modern period to the contemporary. Students will be introduced to a range of art practices situated within a global context and will consider art works produced in Māori and Pacific cultures alongside Indian, Asian, Middle Eastern, European and American traditions.
No pre-requisites or restrictions
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ARTHIST 115
: Global Art Histories2023 Semester Two (1235)
A broad survey of visual art spanning from the early modern period to the contemporary. Students will be introduced to a range of art practices situated within a global context and will consider art works produced in Māori and Pacific cultures alongside Indian, Asian, Middle Eastern, European and American traditions.
No pre-requisites or restrictions
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ARTHIST 115
: Global Art Histories2022 Semester Two (1225)
A broad survey of visual art spanning from the early modern period to the contemporary. Students will be introduced to a range of art practices situated within a global context and will consider art works produced in Māori and Pacific cultures alongside Indian, Asian, Middle Eastern, European and American traditions.
No pre-requisites or restrictions
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ARTHIST 115
: Global Art Histories2021 Semester Two (1215)
A broad survey of visual art spanning from the early modern period to the contemporary. Students will be introduced to a range of art practices situated within a global context and will consider art works produced in Māori and Pacific cultures alongside Indian, Asian, Middle Eastern, European and American traditions.
No pre-requisites or restrictions
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ARTHIST 115
: Global Art Histories2020 Semester One (1203)
A broad survey of visual art spanning from the early modern period to the contemporary. Students will be introduced to a range of art practices situated within a global context and will consider art works produced in Māori and Pacific cultures alongside Indian, Asian, Middle Eastern, European and American traditions.
No pre-requisites or restrictions
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ARTHIST 115G
: Global Art Histories2021 Semester Two (1215)
A broad survey of visual art spanning from the early modern period to the contemporary. Students will be introduced to a range of art practices situated within a global context and will consider art works produced in Māori and Pacific cultures alongside Indian, South Asian, Middle Eastern, European and American traditions.
No pre-requisites or restrictions
386
ARTHIST 115G
: Global Art Histories2020 Semester One (1203)
A broad survey of visual art spanning from the early modern period to the contemporary. Students will be introduced to a range of art practices situated within a global context and will consider art works produced in Māori and Pacific cultures alongside Indian, South Asian, Middle Eastern, European and American traditions.
No pre-requisites or restrictions
387
ARTHIST 200
: Radical Change: 1850-19402020 Semester One (1203)
Focuses on a crucial period of change and innovation in European art practices. Addresses ideas about art and the visual, the consequences and complexities of which are still being played out in the art and socio-cultural worlds of today.
Prerequisite: 15 points at Stage I in Art History and 30 points passed
Restriction: ARTHIST 202, 222, 300, 302, 322
Restriction: ARTHIST 202, 222, 300, 302, 322
388
ARTHIST 201
: Art and Revolution 1750-18502021 Semester One (1213)
Topics in late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century painting, sculpture and architecture in Europe, particularly France and Britain. The impact of social and industrial revolution is examined, and developments in portraiture, landscape and history painting are explored. The major artists include Constable, Turner, Goya, Reynolds, Gainsborough, David, Ingres, Gericault and Delacroix.
Prerequisite: 15 points at Stage I in Art History and 30 points passed
Restriction: ARTHIST 321
Restriction: ARTHIST 321
389
ARTHIST 204
: Ways of Seeing Contemporary Art2024 Semester Two (1245)
Examines some central concerns that have arisen in late modernist art, exploring the moves, intensifications and political implications of art in the post-1968 period: dematerialisation of the art object, site-specificity, the artist in a commodity culture, activism, questions of identity, notions of looking and spectatorship, interactivity, new media, contemporary censorship and debates about the place of the aesthetic.
Prerequisite: 15 points at Stage I in Art History or Media and Screen Studies, and 30 points passed
Restriction: ARTHIST 334
Restriction: ARTHIST 334
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ARTHIST 204
: Ways of Seeing Contemporary Art2022 Semester One (1223)
Examines some central concerns that have arisen in late modernist art, exploring the moves, intensifications and political implications of art in the post-1968 period: dematerialisation of the art object, site-specificity, the artist in a commodity culture, activism, questions of identity, notions of looking and spectatorship, interactivity, new media, contemporary censorship and debates about the place of the aesthetic.
Prerequisite: 15 points at Stage I in Art History and 30 points passed
Restriction: ARTHIST 334
Restriction: ARTHIST 334
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ARTHIST 204
: Ways of Seeing Contemporary Art2020 Semester Two (1205)
Examines some central concerns that have arisen in late modernist art, exploring the moves, intensifications and political implications of art in the post-1968 period: dematerialisation of the art object, site-specificity, the artist in a commodity culture, activism, questions of identity, notions of looking and spectatorship, interactivity, new media, contemporary censorship and debates about the place of the aesthetic.
Prerequisite: 15 points at Stage I in Art History and 30 points passed
Restriction: ARTHIST 334
Restriction: ARTHIST 334
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ARTHIST 210
: Modernism and Design2025 Semester One (1253)
A study of the central role played by architecture and design within twentieth-century Modernism. Dealing with function, materials, decoration and Modernist theory, the course spans the period from Art Nouveau in the 1890s to World War II. The main focus will be on Europe and the United States, with some references to New Zealand.
Prerequisite: 15 points at Stage I in Art History and 30 points passed
Restriction: ARTHIST 310
Restriction: ARTHIST 310
393
ARTHIST 217
: Contemporary Pacific Art2023 Semester Two (1235)
Focuses on work by contemporary Pacific artists, exploring the ways that they translate indigenous knowledge and urban experiences into gallery forms such as painting, installation, performance, film and video making. Themes such as migration and diaspora, language and memory, notions of homelands and return, and the creation of complex cultural identities will be explored.
Prerequisite: 15 points at Stage I in Art History and 30 points passed
Restriction: ARTHIST 317
Restriction: ARTHIST 317
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ARTHIST 224
: Power and Piety: the Baroque2024 Semester Two (1245)
The use of art to display, enhance, and justify political power and piety and to promote political and religious ideologies in the major power centres of seventeenth-century Europe in the Baroque period. Refers to the work of artists such as Caravaggio, Bernini, Velasquez, Rubens, Rembrandt, Van Dyck, Le Brun, Jones and Wren.
Prerequisite: 15 points at Stage I in Art History and 30 points passed
Restriction: ARTHIST 306, 324
Restriction: ARTHIST 306, 324
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ARTHIST 224
: Power and Piety: the Baroque2022 Semester Two (1225)
The use of art to display, enhance, and justify political power and piety and to promote political and religious ideologies in the major power centres of seventeenth-century Europe in the Baroque period. Refers to the work of artists such as Caravaggio, Bernini, Velasquez, Rubens, Rembrandt, Van Dyck, Le Brun, Jones and Wren.
Prerequisite: 15 points at Stage I in Art History and 30 points passed
Restriction: ARTHIST 306, 324
Restriction: ARTHIST 306, 324
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ARTHIST 224
: Power and Piety: the Baroque2020 Semester Two (1205)
The use of art to display, enhance, and justify political power and piety and to promote political and religious ideologies in the major power centres of seventeenth-century Europe in the Baroque period. Refers to the work of artists such as Caravaggio, Bernini, Velasquez, Rubens, Rembrandt, Van Dyck, Le Brun, Jones and Wren.
Prerequisite: 15 points at Stage I in Art History and 30 points passed
Restriction: ARTHIST 306, 324
Restriction: ARTHIST 306, 324
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ARTHIST 230
: Art Crime2023 Semester One (1233)
Explores the growing trend of art crime through a focus on five primary areas: theft, fraud, smuggling, forgery, and vandalism. These will be examined within the context of international and New Zealand case studies, including the theft of the Mona Lisa in 1911, Nazi looting in World War II, and thefts during the Iraq War in 2003. Ways to curb such crime, particularly the development of art crime squads, will also be discussed.
Prerequisite: 15 points at Stage I in Art History and 30 points passed
Restriction: ARTHIST 332
Restriction: ARTHIST 332
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ARTHIST 230
: Art Crime2020 Semester One (1203)
Explores the growing trend of art crime through a focus on five primary areas: theft, fraud, smuggling, forgery, and vandalism. These will be examined within the context of international and New Zealand case studies, including the theft of the Mona Lisa in 1911, Nazi looting in World War II, and thefts during the Iraq War in 2003. Ways to curb such crime, particularly the development of art crime squads, will also be discussed.
Prerequisite: 15 points at Stage I in Art History and 30 points passed
Restriction: ARTHIST 332
Restriction: ARTHIST 332
399
ARTHIST 231
: Framing the Viewer: 20th Century Art2025 Semester Two (1255)
The rise of Modernism saw the development of art which is reflexive, which draws attention to itself and the illusion of representation, making us reflect about what art is and how it affects the viewer. This course is designed to enable students to develop their own reflexivity and critical awareness through a study of the 'classic' movements of the twentieth century, such as Cubism, Expressionism, Dada, Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism, Op, Pop and Conceptual Art.
Prerequisite: 15 points at Stage I in Art History and 30 points passed
Restriction: ARTHIST 331
Restriction: ARTHIST 331
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ARTHIST 231
: Framing the Viewer: 20th Century Art2023 Semester Two (1235)
The rise of Modernism saw the development of art which is reflexive, which draws attention to itself and the illusion of representation, making us reflect about what art is and how it affects the viewer. This course is designed to enable students to develop their own reflexivity and critical awareness through a study of the 'classic' movements of the twentieth century, such as Cubism, Expressionism, Dada, Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism, Op, Pop and Conceptual Art.
Prerequisite: 15 points at Stage I in Art History and 30 points passed
Restriction: ARTHIST 331
Restriction: ARTHIST 331
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