Join us for this introduction to the art historian’s key skills, whether you wish to enhance your enjoyment of art or equip yourself for further study.
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Accredited courses include undergraduate and postgraduate level courses.
This course provides an historical introduction to the development of folklore studies in Britain. It will review historical conceptions and approaches to folklore from the seventeenth-century antiquarians to the present.
This course explores American art from the late nineteenth century to the postwar era, examining how artists responded to urbanisation, mass media, European modernism, consumer culture, and America’s changing place in the world.
An introduction to British art of the postwar era, from Neo-Romanticism to 'Kitchen Sink' realism and the emergence of Pop Art.
This course will look in particular at the Great Fire in 1666, its rebuilding by Wren, and the Blitz between 1940 and 1944, resulting in the making of the Modern London. The course will be illustrated with paintings, engravings, maps and photographs.
This lecture will will explore the pioneering artists of the 1920s and '30s French Riviera.
Deepen your understanding of Early Renaissance to High Renaissance art, the role of patronage, and how the Renaissance continues to influence modern creativity.
This guided viewing in the Ashmolean Museum will discuss key drawings by Leonardo and Raphael individually and comparatively. Focusing on style and techniques, we will also consider relationships with their paintings and writings.
Explore modern and contemporary art from 1900 to the present day. This course provides frameworks for understanding key ideas, techniques and debates in modern art, while highlighting both innovation and continuity with the art of earlier periods.
This course aims to give students an introduction and overview of that architectural tradition enabling students to 'read' the architecture of the contemporary built environment in a critically informed way.
This lecture will concentrate upon the lasting legacies of the 1920s, in cultural terms.
This course explores the riches of northern European art from c.1480 - 1580; artists including Dürer, Bosch, Holbein and Bruegel will be studied.