Module Overview

Lectures:

MON 0900-1100 LR426

Tutorials:

MON 1100-1300 SR15 (Sabapathy)

MON 1100-1300 SR12 (Ling Wei)

TUE 1000-1200 SR12 (Ling Wei)

This module derives its approaches from the history and criticism of art. The focus is on painting and sculpture.

There are two sections.

In the first, three (3) topics from Asian artistic traditions are discussed;
they are: Indian sculpture, Chinese landscape, painting Islamic Calligraphy

In the second section, major and diverse art movements and ideas, from the Renaissance in Italy to the middle of the 20th century, are surveyed.

Please also refer to the lecture schedule published in the handout for Lecture 1 (Introduction to Module).
For the dates for Quizzes, please also refer to Lecture 1 handout.

Lecture / Topic / Date

L1. Introduction: objectives and conduct of module -- Jan 10
    Enrollment for Tutorial Groups -- Jan 10  

L2. Embodying the Contemplative and the Active: Indian images of the Buddha and Siva Nataraja -- Jan 17

   Tutorial 0 : Enrollment for Topics -- Jan 17  

L3. Picturing the world: landscape in Chinese art - Styles of painting -- Jan 24 

     Tutorial 1: Indian Images (Lecture 2 topic) -- Jan 24 & 25

L4. Continuation of Lecture 3 -- Jan 31

     Tutorial 2: Continuation of Indian Images (Lecture 2 topic) -- Jan 31 & Feb 1

L5. The word and the picture: Islamic calligraphy - The kufic and naskh styles -- Feb 7 

     Tutorial 3: Landscape in Chinese art (Lecture 3 / 4 topic) -- Feb 7 & 8
    
L6. The body as an ideal and displayed: the figure in Renaissance and Baroque Art -- Feb 14

     QUIZ 1 (Covering Lectures 2-5) -- Feb 14

      Tutorial 4: The figure in Renaissance and Baroque Art (Lecture 6 topic) -- Feb 14 & 15


RECESS WEEK -- Feb 19 -27


L7.  The Heroic and The Tragic: Neo Classicism and Romanticism -- Feb 28

      Tutorial 5: Neo Classicism and Romanticism (Lecture 7 topic) -- Feb 28 & Mar 1

L8. The city and the idea of the modern: Realism and Impressionism in Paris -- Mar 7

      Tutorial 6: Realism and Impressionism in Paris (Lecture 8 topic) -- Mar 7 & 8
     
L9. New ways of seeing and representing the world: Post-Impressionism and Rodin -- Mar 14

     Tutorial 7: Post-Impressionism & Rodin (Lecture 9 topic) -- Mar 14 & 15

L10. The fragmented world, art and artists at the beginning of the 20th century: Expressionism and Cubism -- Mar 21 

      Tutorial 8: Cubism (Lecture 10 topic) -- Mar 21 & 22

Submission of Written Term Assignment - Mar 26
         
L11. Utopia and the subconscious: Constructivism and Surrealism -- Mar 28

L12. The figure and objects in Pop Art  -- Apr 4