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Semester 1

Scottish Art in the Age of Change 1945-2000 (HIAR10035)

Subject

History of Art

College

CAHSS

Credits

20

Normal Year Taken

3

Delivery Session Year

2023/2024

Pre-requisites

Visiting students must have completed 3 History of Art courses at grade B or above, and please note that we will not consider History courses unrelated to Art, or practical Art courses, towards these pre-requisites. We will only consider University/College level courses. Please see Additional Restrictions below.

Course Summary

The central purpose of this course will be to examine the complex and shifting relationship between the work of the major post-war Scottish artists (Eduardo Paolozzi, Boyle Family, Hamilton Finlay, Alison Watt, Douglas Gordon, etc.) and the wider developments of modern and postmodern art. The structure of the course will be broadly chronological. It will examine the development of the post-war Scottish and international art scenes, concentrating on the dominant characteristics and themes in the art of this period. This will require the students to focus their critical attention on how Scottish artists have responded and contributed to such aspects of modern and contemporary art as - realism, expressionism, abstraction, constructivism, conceptionalism, feminism, etc. These topics will not only be examined in terms of their stylistic features, but also within the context of socio-historical study and visual critical theory. The course is designed so that lectures, seminars and essay topics complement one another. Some of the seminars will take place outside the University, in locations such as the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art. A special site visit will also be arranged to Little Sparta, the garden of In Hamilton Finlay.

Course Description

Assessment Information

Written Exam 50%, Coursework 50%, Practical Exam 0%

Additional Restrictions

Unless you are nominated on a History of Art exchange agreement, visiting students are only permitted to enrol in one 3rd year History of Art course each, per semester, before the start of the relevant semester’s welcome period – and spaces on each course are limited so cannot be guaranteed for any student. Enrolment in a second course from this group will depend on whether there are still spaces available in the September Welcome Period, and cannot be guaranteed. It is NOT appropriate for students to contact staff within this subject area to ask for an exception to be made; all enquiries to enrol in these courses must be made through the CAHSS Visiting Student Office. This is due to the extremely limited number of spaces available in this very popular subject area.

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