2026/2027

Эпизоды всемирной истории на полотнах

Статус: Маго-лего

Кто читает: Школа иностранных языков

Где читается: Факультет гуманитарных наук

Охват аудитории: для всех кампусов НИУ ВШЭ

Преподаватели: Жунич Ирина Ивановна

Язык: русский

Кредиты: 3

Контактные часы: 40

Программа дисциплины

Аннотация

This interdisciplinary course explores pivotal episodes of world history through the lens of visual art. Moving beyond Eurocentric narratives, the curriculum adopts a comparative approach, analyzing how diverse cultures have visualized universal human experiences: creation, catastrophe, urbanization, power, and progress. Students will examine the intersection of theology, archaeology, politics, and aesthetics, critically analyzing how "history" is constructed on the canvas. Special attention is paid to the function of art in memory of the world and cross-cultural dialogue.

Цель освоения дисциплины

• Explore how paintings from different times and cultures depict key moments in world history
• Learn to recognize and discuss common symbols, color meanings, and artistic techniques used by painters
• Discover how artists from Europe, Russia, Asia, Africa, and Latin America portray the same historical episodes (Creation, Flood, city founding, revolutions)
• Discuss how paintings shape historical memory, cultural identity, and societal values
• Create a short presentation and a reflective essay based on course materials, focusing on personal observations and insights

Планируемые результаты обучения

• Analyze visual artworks as primary historical sources within specific political, economic, and social contexts
• Compare how different cultural traditions visualize universal episodes: creation, catastrophe, power, everyday life
• Decode symbolic systems: color semantics (Pastoureau), archetypes (Jung), cultural codes (Hall/Hofstede)
• Construct evidence-based arguments that integrate visual analysis, historical context
• Interpret color as a changing social phenomenon.
• Identify genres within the historical artistic hierarchy.

Содержание учебной дисциплины

• Introduction. General issues.
• Prehistoric Art
• Genres. Colors in History.
• Creation of the world
• Cities from myths and legends. Citiscapes and city life on canvases.
• Moscow in history and on canvases
• Catastrophes in human memory
• Pandemics & Epidemics
• From a portrait to a well-renowed dynasty
• Scandals of the Baroque era and their consequences

Элементы контроля

• Article
• Quizzes
• In-class participation
• Presentation
• Final Test

Промежуточная аттестация

• 2026/2027 4th module
  0.15 * Quizzes + 0.2 * Presentation + 0.25 * Article + 0.1 * In-class participation + 0.3 * Final Test

Список литературы

Рекомендуемая основная литература

• 9781317168911 - J.R. Mulryne, Maria Ines Aliverti, Anna-Maria Testaverde - Ceremonial Entries in Early Modern Europe : The Iconography of Power - 2015 - Routledge - http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=841447 - nlebk - 841447
• Arts Education Partnership, & National Art Education Association. (2019). Visual Arts Matter: How Visual Arts Education Helps Students Learn, Achieve and Thrive. Arts Education Partnership. Arts Education Partnership. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=eric&AN=ED596318
• Ching, F. D. K., Jarzombek, M., & Prakash, V. (2017). A Global History of Architecture (Vol. Third edition). Hoboken, New Jersey: Wiley. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1492721
• Empires of the Silk Road: A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present, Beckwith, C. I., 2009
• Hofstede, G. (2001). Culture’s Consequences: Comparing Values, Behaviors, Institutions, and Organizations Across Nations. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsbas&AN=edsbas.A385DB9A
• Kuiper, K. (2010). Ancient Greece : From the Archaic Period to the Death of Alexander the Great (Vol. 1st ed). New York: Britannica Educational Publishing. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=317112
• Silk roads : peoples, cultures, landscapes, , 2019

Рекомендуемая дополнительная литература

• Black : the history of a color, Pastoureau, M., 2009
• Blue : the history of a color, Pastoureau, M., 2018
• Green : the history of a color, Pastoureau, M., 2014
• Red : the history of a color, Pastoureau, M., 2017
• Yellow : the history of a color, Pastoureau, M., 2019

Авторы

• Жунич Ирина Ивановна