Art History: International Art Nouveau
Research Methods in Practice (HISTART5105)
Semester 1
This course will consist of teaching and learning sessions run by different staff and some guest speakers on a wide range of topics, both practical and theoretical. Bringing all taught postgraduate students in the subject together, it is intended to enable students effectively to engage with broad questions of research methods and their application in History of Art. It is designed and structured to meet the need for a critical, theoretical and methodological underpinning to postgraduate study and to equip students with vital practical research skills.
Convenor: Dr Debbie Lewer
Reading International Art Nouveau (HISTART5091)
Semester 1
This course will ask students to reflect upon the changing reception, interpretation and evaluation of Art Nouveau as an international art movement through the 20th century. It will focus upon the career of Charles Rennie Mackintosh, the subsequent history of the buildings he designed, and the collecting and exhibition of his paintings, drawings and designs.
Convenor: Sabine Wieber
The Artistic House (HISTART5090)
Semester 2
Using the domestic house as a lens, this course will provide a geographical and intellectual context for the emergence of a modern style across Europe in the period 1890-1918 while taking into account artistic developments throughout the ‘long 19th century’. Students will be asked to reflect upon the dialogue between Glasgow and other key centres of Art Nouveau, and explore the reciprocal networks between Glasgow artists, architects and designers and the Continental counterparts.
Convenor: Sally Rush
Whistler, Impressionism and European Avant-Gardes (HISTART5092)
Semester 2
This course explores developments in western painting (e.g. Impressionism, Post-Impressionism/Symbolism) which form the context for the emergence and evolution of Art Nouveau and its underlying themes of nature and renewal. By focussing on the way in which the visual arts responded to cultural, social and political change, the course will foster a deeper intellectual engagement with the symbolism of Art Nouveau architecture and design.
Convenor: Clare Willsdon
Dissertation (HISTART5018P)
Submitted at the end of August
The dissertation, or other substantial piece of work, encourages independent work through deeper study of a particular art historical, or related, problem and encourages the application of acquired research skills. It is expected that MLitt dissertations should make a contribution to some aspect of the subject. The dissertation is 15-20,000 words in length (including footnotes and bibliography) and will be on a topic chosen in consultation with the tutors and the programme director during Semester 1.