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Бакалавриат 2017/2018

История искусств

Направление: 41.03.05. Международные отношения
Когда читается: 1-й курс, 1, 2 модуль
Формат изучения: без онлайн-курса
Язык: английский
Кредиты: 3
Контактные часы: 32

Course Syllabus

Abstract

This is the first part of a survey of visual arts from the origin of art in prehistoric caves to ancient Mediterranean and Oriental (or Asian or Eastern) art. We will consider how and why the peoples of the past created art; the role of art within the cultural, religious, and social context; and why that ancient art from faraway lands is still relevant to us. We will discuss issues of style, techniques, and materials, symbolic and iconographic features of the principal artworks that shaped the canon of the great art traditions. The course combines structural approach to genres and forms with the detailed analysis of selected objets d’art.
Learning Objectives

Learning Objectives

  • To serve as an introduction to the world of art seen as a visual representation of the religious, aesthetic, and intellectual frameset of ancient and Eastern civilizations.
  • To help you to understand different types of culture and to demonstrate why Asian (most of all, Japanese) art resonates so powerfully with the Western mind beginning from the end of the 19th century.
  • To show different ways of analysis of artworks, or the ways of determining their meaning based on their visual characteristics.
  • To build a professional vocabulary of art terms as a means to articulate facts and ideas in discussions, oral presentations, and in writing. In other words, to increase your ability to verbalize the visual language of art.
  • We will further focus on developing your critical faculties -- the ability to apprehend and comprehend a work of art and to see the world behind it.
Expected Learning Outcomes

Expected Learning Outcomes

  • skills in the analysis of works of fine art - graphics, painting, architecture and sculpture
  • skills in applying art criticism approaches in historical research
  • skills in processing and public demonstration of reproductions of works of art on electronic media
  • skills in combining graphic series with text when writing scientific papers
Course Contents

Course Contents

  • Lecture 1. Middle Ages. The beginnings of christian art. Painting of catacombs. Book illustration and the role of the Holy Script in medieval civilisation. The icon as phenomenon, its theology, meaning and poetics. Fresco, mosaic and stained glass of essential forms of church decoration. The gothic cathedral.
  • Lecture 2. Renaissance painting. The birth of canvas from the icon and altarpiece, its technical and cultural background. Importance of the oil. The so called italian perspective, its symbolism. The new image of man and the Renaissance humanism. Growth of landscape, new sight on nature. Renaissance in Italy and beyond. Critical terms in analyzing the Renaissance painting: invention, composition, harmony
  • Lecture 3. The Great Century: XVIIth century masters. Heritage of the Counter-Reformation in the arts. Problem of Mannerism and the phenomenon of El Greco. The birth of Barocco: Caravaggio. Realism, naturalism or verism. Great followers: Rembrandt, Velasquez. What is the difference in the world view of the Renaissance and the Great century? Reflection of changes in the composition of the painting. Religious devotion and taste for narrative.
  • Lecture 4. Graphic arts: drawing and etching. Its relation to the painting in european tradition: functions, technics, unicity, replication and publishing. Types of drawing. Types of etching. Dürer, Rembrandt, Watteau, Füssli and other masters
  • Lecture 5. A long XIXth century. The French Revolution, wellfare society, speed, vapor and war. New rhythm in the life of arts, new public, the phenomenon of Salon, role of Paris as undiscussed capital. The age of “isms” and their caracteristics. Classicism, Romanticism, Realism, Impressionism. David, Ingres, Delacroix, Friedrich, Courbet, Monet, Renoir, Degas. From “liberty in chain” to the “caprice of the glance”
  • Lecture 6. After Impressionism: on the threshold of the Modern. A detailed analysis of Seurat’s “A Sunday afternoon on the island of La Grande Jatte” and of Manet’s “Bar at FoliesBergère”: from reality to phantasmagoria in search of the Truth. The birth of modern painting.
  • Lecture 7. The Avant-garde. A melting-pot of styles, groups, interests and technics. Peculiar caracteristics of cubism, futurism and abstractionism. Theoretical principles and painting technics. Early Picasso, Boccioni, Mondrian, Kandinsky.
Assessment Elements

Assessment Elements

  • non-blocking Multiple choice test
  • non-blocking Multiple choice test
  • non-blocking In-class participation
  • non-blocking In-class participation 2
Interim Assessment

Interim Assessment

  • Interim assessment (1 module)
    0.3 * In-class participation + 0.7 * Multiple choice test
  • Interim assessment (2 module)
    0.2 * In-class participation 2 + 0.5 * Interim assessment (1 module) + 0.3 * Multiple choice test
Bibliography

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

  • Ильина Т. В. - ИСТОРИЯ ИСКУССТВА 2-е изд. Учебник для СПО - М.:Издательство Юрайт - 2019 - 203с. - ISBN: 978-5-534-10779-1 - Текст электронный // ЭБС ЮРАЙТ - URL: https://urait.ru/book/istoriya-iskusstva-431512
  • История искусства, Гомбрих, Э. Г., 2018

Recommended Additional Bibliography

  • Kamerick, K. (2013). Translating Truth: Ambitious Images and Religious Knowledge in Late Medieval France and England. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsbas&AN=edsbas.839AD528