Planetary/Provincial: Modern Art and Architecture in its Global Contexts (HART0198)

Key information

Faculty: Faculty of Social and Historical Sciences
Teaching department: History of Art
Credit value: 30

Restrictions: This module is only available to final-year BA History of Art students, including BA History of Art, Materials and Technology, and including final-year students who are taking a combined-honours degree which includes History of Art in the programme title. The module is also available to affiliate students enrolled in the History of Art Department for a full academic year, and available to BASc Arts & Sciences (Cultures pathway) students who have previously completed a FHEQ Level 5 or 6 module in History of Art.
Timetable

Alternative credit options

There are no alternative credit options available for this module.

Description

Arguably modernism was always driven by transcultural dynamics, even if art history remained stubbornly national. In this module we will engage with the challenges of a planetary outlook on modern art, architecture and aesthetics. In place of national surveys and further additions to the European canon, we will think about points of contact, appropriation and circulation in the art, architecture and aesthetics of Europe, East Asia and Africa between c. 1850鈥�1960. Drawing on a number of case studies from Czechoslovakia, Germany, Japan and Nigeria, the module will also introduce key debates on the modern nexus of art and anthropology and emerging scholarship on the contradictions of colonial entanglement. We will pay close attention to material infrastructures of colonial trade, travel and economic exchange but also think about modes of world-making enabled by radical pedagogies, socialist and feminist internationalisms and transnational networks of solidarity and friendship.

Module deliveries for 2024/25 academic year

Intended teaching term: Terms 1 and 2 听听听 Undergraduate (FHEQ Level 6)

Teaching and assessment

Mode of study: In person
Methods of assessment: 90% Coursework

10% Viva or oral presentation
Mark scheme: Numeric Marks

Other information

Number of students on module in previous year: 13
Module leader: Dr Jenny Nachtigall

Last updated

This module description was last updated on 19th August 2024.

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