DEPARTMENT OF THE HISTORY OF ART Lecture List for Michaelmas Term 2015 NOTICE: Non-members of the University may not attend university lectures (unless they are announced as open to the general public) without payment of a fee, otherwise than by personal invitation of the lecturer concerned. Persons who are neither reading for a qualification of this University nor otherwise exempt, and who wish to attend lectures in any term, should apply to the Buildings and Events Manager, Examination Schools, for details of fees. At least three working days’ notice is required before a lecture permit can be issued, to allow liaison with the department or faculty concerned. Senior visiting scholars from other universities who wish to attend lectures, seminars, or classes should normally apply to the lecturer concerned directly, and not to the Buildings and Events Manager. Lectures begin on the first possible day after the beginning of Full Term (Sunday, 11 October) unless otherwise stated. Lectures will begin five minutes after the hour and finish at five minutes before the next hour. Subject HISTORY OF ART
Lecturer
Time
Place
Art History: Concepts and Methods (open lectures)
Convenor: Prof G A Johnson
Wks 1-8 M. 10-11 am
History of Art, 2nd Floor, Littlegate House, St Ebbes (lecture theatre)
Introduction: ‘There Are Only Artists’
Prof Craig Clunas
12 Oct
The Hand of the Master, the Eye of the Connoisseur
Prof Gervase Rosser
19 Oct
Taste, Art and Aesthetics
Prof Gervase Rosser
26 Oct
Form
Prof Alastair Wright
02 Nov
Iconography and Semiotics
Prof Hanneke Grootenboer
09 Nov
Ideology and the Social Histories of Art
Dr Jennifer Johnson
16 Nov
The Reception of Art
Prof Geraldine Johnson
23 Nov
Looking at Photographs
Dr Mirjam Brusius
30 Nov
Introduction to the History of Art (open lectures)
Convenor: Dr M Brusius
Wks 1-8 W. & Th. 10-11 am
Introduction
Prof Craig Clunas
14 Oct
Approaching Ancient Egyptian Art: the Nebamun wall paintings
Prof Richard Parkinson
15 Oct
Ancient Art, Ancient Texts and the Idea of Progress
Prof Jas’ Elsner
21 Oct
History of Art Undergraduate Course THE PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION History of Art, 2nd Floor, Littlegate House, St Ebbes (lecture theatre)
Islamic Art
Prof Oliver Watson
22 Oct
Art and Craft: Designing and Building Medieval Cathedrals
Prof Gervase Rosser
28 Oct
Collecting and Display in Venice: Titian’s Triumph of Love
Prof Catherine Whistler
29 Oct
Art in India
Dr Mallica Kumbera Landrus
04 Nov
Women as Patrons of the Arts in Early Modern Europe
Prof Geraldine Johnson
05 Nov
Writing on Art: French Salon Criticism
Dr Linda Whiteley
11 Nov
The Dutch Golden Age
Prof Hanneke Grootenboer
12 Nov
Twentieth-century art: Abstraction and Figuration
Dr Alex Taylor
18 Nov
Japonisme: The Reception of Japanese Culture in Europe in the late 19th century’
Dr Clare Pollard
19 Nov
Modernism and Mass Culture
Prof Alastair Wright
25 Nov
An Introduction to the Anthropology of Art
Prof Dan Hicks
26 Nov
Ai Weiwei and beyond: framing contemporary "Chinese" art
Dr Ros Holmes
02 Dec
Photography: Origins, Practices, Meanings
Dr Mirjam Brusius
03 Dec
Images, Objects and Buildings in Oxford: Introduction to Collections (class, History of Art BA students only)
Convenor: Dr M Brusius
Wks 1-8 W. 11.30 am – 12.30 pm, plus an extra class in Wk 5: T. 2 pm
Various collections, as listed
Colin Harrison
14 Oct
Ashmolean Museum. Followed by a visit to Waddesdon Manor
Oxford Architecture
Dr Matthew Walker
21 Oct
Behind the Scenes of the Ashmolean
Jevon Thistlewood
28 Oct
Object Handling Session
Dr Mallica Kumbera Landrus
04 Nov
Pembroke JCR Art Collection
Sarah Hegenbart
10 Nov
Pembroke College
Object Handling Session
Jeremy Coote
11 Nov
Illuminated Manuscripts
Dr Martin Kauffmann
18 Nov
Pitt Rivers Museum Bodleian Library
Dr Stephen Johnston
25 Nov
Museum of the History of Science
Jacqueline Thalmann
02 Dec
Christ Church Picture Gallery
Baroque Art
Ashmolean Museum Ashmolean Museum
European Art (class, History of Art BA students only)
Convenor: Dr M Walker
Wks 1-8 M. 2-3.30 pm
History of Art, 2nd Floor, Littlegate House, St Ebbes (seminar room)
Wk 2
Extended BA Induction (First Year History of Art BA students only) Image manipulation and scanning
Vicky Brown
T. 2-2..45 pm
History of Art, 2nd Floor, Littlegate House, St Ebbes (Visual Resources Centre)
Library skills – researching your first paper
Clare Hills-Nova
T. 3-4.30 pm
English Faculty Library, St Cross Building, Manor Road
Approaches to the History of Art (class, History of Art BA students only)
Dr J Johnson
Wks 1-8 T. 11.301 pm (except Wk 6 – 2-3.30 pm)
History of Art, 2nd Floor, Littlegate House, St Ebbes (seminar room)
Painting in the Ming (open lectures)
Prof C Clunas
Wks 1-8 T. 12-1 pm
History of Art, 2nd Floor, Littlegate House, St Ebbes (lecture theatre)
THE FINAL HONOUR SCHOOL
Painting as visual and material culture in Ming China
13 Oct
Painting and power
20 Oct
Painting and history
27 Oct
Painting and commerce
03 Nov
Painting and friendship
10 Nov
Painting and place
17 Nov
Painting and belief
24 Nov
Painting and text
01 Dec
Classical, Pre-Modern or Non-Western Art Options: (for attendance by enrolled BA students) Art under the Roman Empire (lectures)
Prof P Stewart
Wks 1-8 W. 12 pm
Examination Schools, High St
Gothic Art Through Medieval Eyes (open lectures)
Prof G Rosser
Wks 1, 3-5 Th. 12 pm
History of Art, 2nd Floor, Littlegate House, St Ebbes (lecture theatre; seminar room Wk 5)
Modern Art Options: (for attendance by enrolled students only) European Cinema
Dr R Due
Wks 1-8
Lectures
M. 10 am
Screenings
W. 2-4.30 pm
The Experience of Modernity: Visual Culture, 1880-1925 (class, History of Art BA students only)
Modernism and After (History and Theory of Visual Culture): The Currency of the Image
Prof A Wright
Convenors: Prof J Gaiger & Dr A Massouras
Taylor Institution, St Giles (Room 3)
Wks 1-8 F. 3-5 pm
Dolphin Lecture Room, St John’s College, St Giles
(Except Wk 4: Th. 3-5 pm
History of Art, 2nd Floor, Littlegate House, St Ebbes (seminar room)
Wks 1-8 W.
Lectures
11 am
Examination Schools, High St
Seminars
2-4 pm
The Old Masters’ Studio, Ruskin School of Art, High St
Special Subjects: (for attendance by enrolled students only) Painting and Culture in Ming China
Prof C Clunas
Wks 1-8 T. 9-11 am
History of Art, 2nd Floor, Littlegate House, St Ebbes (seminar room)
Art and its Public in France, 1815-67
Prof J Garnett
Wks 1-8 M. 11 am
Wadham College Parks Road
Wks 1-8
English Architecture, 1660-1720
M. 2-4 pm
Christ Church, St Aldates
Dr P Gauci
Th. 11 am – 1 pm
Lincoln College, Turl Street
Prof G Rosser & Prof N Davidson
Wks 1-8 M. 2 pm
St Catherine’s College/St Edmund Hall. TBA
Dr H Smith or
Politics, Art and Culture in the Italian Renaissance: Venice and Florence, c. 1475-1525
MSt IN THE HISTORY OF ART & VISUAL CULTURE Theory and Methods in the History of Art (class, MSt and designated graduate students only)
Convenor: Prof A Wright
Wks 1, 3, 6-8 Th.
History of Art, 2nd Floor, Littlegate House, St Ebbes (seminar room)
Group 1
11 am – 1 pm
Group 2
2 – 4 pm
All
Wks 3-4 Th. 2-4 pm and
History of Art, 2nd Floor, Littlegate House, St Ebbes (lecture theatre)
Wk 5 Th. 11 am – 1 pm
Ashmolean Museum, Beaumont Street
Convenors: Dr M Leino (Humanities, Oxford Brookes), Dr M Walker (History of Art, Oxford), Dr M Winterbottom (Ashmolean)
Wks 1-8 Th. 4.30 pm
TORCH, Radcliffe Humanities, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter, Woodstock Road
Research Skills for PRS students
Clare Hills-Nova
Wk 0 Sa. 2.30-4 pm
Sackler Library, St John’s Street
Research Skills for MSt students
Clare Hills-Nova
Wk 1 W. 2.30-4 pm
English Faculty Library, St Cross Building, Manor Road
HoA Graduate Training Seminar: (History of Art MSt, PRS and DPhil students only)
Convenor: Prof A Wright
Wks 2, 4 & 6 M. 2-3.30 pm
History of Art 2nd Floor, Littlegate House, St Ebbes (lecture theatre)
Research and Presentation Skills for Art Historians
Prof Alastair Wright & Vicky Brown
Applying to History of Art Doctoral Programmes
Prof Alastair Wright
Getting your work out there: publishing and conferences
Prof Alastair Wright & Prof Craig Clunas Wks 1-8 W. 2-4 pm (unless otherwise stated)
History Faculty, George Street (unless otherwise stated)
Oxford Art History Research Seminar (open seminars) For full details please see www.hoa.ox.ac.uk/events
Extended Graduate Induction (First Year History of Art Graduate students only)
History Faculty Graduate Training Seminars: (for new, continuing and advanced graduate students) For full details please see www.history.ox.ac.uk/faculty/events.html
MSt Optional courses: (classes for designated students only) Authenticity and Replication in Art and Visual Culture
Prof C Clunas
Wks 1-8 W. 9-11 am (except Wk 1: 11 am – 1 pm)
History of Art, 2nd Floor, Littlegate House, St Ebbes (seminar room, except Week 1: lecture theatre)
French Painting, 1880-1912
Prof A Wright
Wks 1-8 T. 2-4 pm
New Seminar Room, St John’s College, St Giles
Gothic: Artistic Originality and the Transmission of Style in Medieval Art
Prof G Rosser
Wks 1-8 W. 11.30 am
History of Art, 2nd Floor, Littlegate House, St Ebbes (seminar room)
Image and Thought
Prof H Grootenboer
Wks 1-8 W. 11 am – 1 pm
Ruskin School of Art, High St
Reading Italian for Art Historians (enrolled HOA students only)
T Batelli-Kneale
Wks 1-8 F. 11 am – 1 pm
Language Centre, Woodstock Road
Convenors: Prof G A Johnson, Dr M Brusius
Wks 1 & 5 T. 1-2.15 pm, meeting for lunch from 12.301pm in the Common Room
History of Art, 2nd Floor, Littlegate House, St Ebbes (lecture theatre)
Convenor: Dr O Saumarez Smith
Wks 2, 4, 6, 8 M. 5.30 pm
Oakeshott Room, Lincoln College, Turl Street
OTHER LECTURES AND SEMINARS Photography Seminar (open seminar)
For full details please see www.hoa.ox.ac.uk/events
Oxford Architectural History Seminar For full details please see www.hoa.ox.ac.uk/events
For details of all other lectures and seminars, please see www.hoa.ox.ac.uk/events
