100-level

ARTH103
'Picasso who?' Introducing Modern Art
Description
What makes modern art modern? This course covers all you've always wanted to know about modern art and never dared asking. This course offers a general introduction to modern art from 1850 to 1945. It examines key art movements from Impressionism to Surrealism in their cultural and social contexts while introducing you to art historical methodologies and key art theories.
Occurrences
Summer Nov 2023 (Distance)
Points
15 points
ARTH111
Contextualising Art: An Introduction to Art Theory
Description
A study of theories of art through central texts, from the 18th century to the present day.
Occurrences
Semester Two 2024
Points
15 points
Restrictions
ARTT101
ARTH112
Art and Things: introduction to Art History and Material Culture
Description
This is an integrated introduction to Art History and Material Culture, providing you with an up-to-date, varied and critical 'toolkit' for thinking about art, architecture and objects. The discipline of Art History has a history of its own, and as you will see, this distorts what we understand about art and about 'things'.
Occurrences
Semester One 2024
Points
15 points

200-level

ARTH210
Japanese Art
Description
This course presents an introduction to the arts of Japan, with a particular focus on the art of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
Occurrences
Semester One 2024
Points
15 points
Prerequisites
Any 15 points at 100 level from ARTH, or 60 points at 100 level from the Schedule V of the BA.
ARTH215
International Contemporary Art 1945-2000
Description
This course provides an introduction to international contemporary art, focusing on developments in Europe, the USA and Aotearoa New Zealand between 1945-2000. After looking at mid-twentieth-century tendencies such as Minimalism, Conceptual Art and Land Art, the course turns to consider some of the broader trajectories of contemporary art practice and criticism in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
Occurrences
Semester Two 2024
Points
15 points
Prerequisites
Any 15 points at 100 level from ARTH, or 60 points at 100 level from the Schedule V of the BA.
Restrictions
ARTT102, ARTH109

300-level

ARTH304
He Korero Toi Whiriwhiria: Indigenous Art
Description
An exploration of Indigenous art, including Maori, relating to practice and theory within such institutions as marae, art galleries, museums, and classrooms.
Occurrences
Summer Nov 2023
Points
30 points
Prerequisites
Any 30 points at 200 level from ARTH, or any 60 points at 200 level from the Schedule V of the BA or from the BFA.
ARTH328
Art of the Floating World
Description
This course studies ukiyo-e, Art of the Floating World, which was produced in Japan from the seventeenth century to the nineteenth century.
Occurrences
Semester Two 2024
Points
30 points
Prerequisites
Any 30 points at 200 level from ARTH, or any 60 points at 200 level from the Schedule V of the BA or from the BFA.
ARTH329
In search of Nowhere: the international Arts and Crafts Movement
Description
A detailed introduction to the Arts and Crafts Movement, one of the most interdisciplinary, international, and influential artistic phenomena in history.
Occurrences
Semester One 2024
Points
30 points
Prerequisites
Any 30 points at 200 level from ARTH, or any 60 points at 200 level from the Schedule V of the BA or from the BFA.
ARTH330
Contemporary Art and the Material Turn
Description
This course will examine the implication of the ‘material turn’ across a range of contemporary art practices, focusing in particular on the shift from modernist notions of specificity to the radical fracturing and opening up of practice that has taken place since the 1970s.
Occurrences
Semester One 2024
Points
30 points
Prerequisites
Any 30 points at 200 level from ARTH, or any 60 points at 200 level from the Schedule V of the BA or from the BFA.

Not Offered Courses in 2024

100-level

ARTH104
Maori Art: Taonga Tuku Iho
Description
Taonga Tuku Iho (Treasures handed down from the ancestors) is an introductory survey of traditional Maori art forms within their social, historical and cultural contexts.
Occurrences
Not offered 2024
For further information see ARTH104 course details
Points
15 points

200-level

ARTH202
Art and Revolution
Description
This course explores the relationship between art and a particularly eventful and transformative period in European history, from c.1750 to c.1850.
Occurrences
Not offered 2024, offered in 2021 , 2022 , 2023
For further information see ARTH202 course details
Points
15 points
ARTH211
Theory of Criticism
Description
This course examines the history, theory and practice of writing about visual art.
Occurrences
Not offered 2024, offered in 2012 , 2014 , 2020 , 2021
For further information see ARTH211 course details
Points
15 points
ARTH216
Greek Art: The Power of Images in Archaic and Classical Greece
Description
We focus on the brilliant achievements of the Greeks in architecture, figurative painting, sculpture and other media that have been influential for centuries. We see what these meant in their broader cultural context, including Greek myth and history, as well as Greek interaction with cultures of Egypt and the Middle East. Students in this course have a chance to work directly with the splendid artefacts from the James Logie Memorial Collection (including Greek vases) now housed in the Teece Museum.
Occurrences
Not offered 2024, offered in 2021 , 2023
For further information see ARTH216 course details
Points
15 points
ARTH217
Art in Aotearoa New Zealand
Description
In this course, art in Aotearoa New Zealand is explored through looking at a range of works deriving from Maori, Pakeha, and Pacific traditions. These works include paintings, carvings and buildings, and they have been selected for their rich entanglements with debates around art, culture, and society. This course explores the works in relation to their broad contexts, both in Aotearoa New Zealand and overseas.
Occurrences
Not offered 2024
For further information see ARTH217 course details
Points
15 points
ARTH218
Images in circulation: Print, photography, and pixels
Description
This course focuses on how images communicate, and examines the contexts, exchanges, and transformations that shape their meanings. While visual sources are a ubiquitous part of the information economy, their specific properties enable them to work on audiences in ways that differ from written and spoken accounts. The course explores a range of approaches for thinking about images, what they can and can't do, and the spaces in which they circulate, being made and remade in the process. In particular, this course is concerned with the entanglements of media and meaning, and the how the changing technologies of image-making engender shifting conceptualisations of how visual sources and reality relate.
Occurrences
Not offered 2024, offered in 2019 , 2020 , 2022
For further information see ARTH218 course details
Points
15 points

300-level

ARTH325
Aesthetic Theory
Description
This course examines some of the principal problems in the study of aesthetics, and their relevance to contemporary art and theory.
Occurrences
Not offered 2024, offered in 2012 , 2017 , 2019
For further information see ARTH325 course details
Points
30 points
ARTH331
Revival to Rebuild: the History of Architecture in Christchurch
Description
An exploration of Christchurch architecture and urbanism from European settlement to the present day. This course explores the rich diversity of Christchurch architecture that once defined the city's urban character, the impact of the earthquakes on that character, and examines recent influences to reshape and determine the city and its architecture since 2010.
Occurrences
Not offered 2024, offered in 2016
For further information see ARTH331 course details
Points
30 points