Art and Things: introduction to Art History and Material Culture

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'.

15 points

Japanese Art

This course presents an introduction to the arts of Japan, with a particular focus on the art of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.

15 points

Any 15 points at 100 level from ARTH, or 60 points at 100 level from the Schedule V of the BA.

In search of Nowhere: the international Arts and Crafts Movement

A detailed introduction to the Arts and Crafts Movement, one of the most interdisciplinary, international, and influential artistic phenomena in history.

30 points

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.

Contemporary Art and the Material Turn

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.

30 points

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.

Contextualising Art: An Introduction to Art Theory

A study of theories of art through central texts, from the 18th century to the present day.

15 points

ARTT101

International Contemporary Art 1945-2000

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.

15 points

Any 15 points at 100 level from ARTH, or 60 points at 100 level from the Schedule V of the BA.

ARTT102, ARTH109

Art of the Floating World

This course studies ukiyo-e, Art of the Floating World, which was produced in Japan from the seventeenth century to the nineteenth century.

30 points

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.

'Picasso who?' Introducing Modern Art

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.

15 points

He Korero Toi Whiriwhiria: Indigenous Art

An exploration of Indigenous art, including Maori, relating to practice and theory within such institutions as marae, art galleries, museums, and classrooms.

30 points

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.