Antigüedad

First level: ARH101, 102 Second level: ARH201, 202, 203, 204

Third level: HAR300 (as from 2002: ARH301, 302, 303, 304)

As from 2002, modules ARH401 and ARH402 may be taken in place of ARH202, 204, 302 or 304 to comply with the requirements for a major subject for the BA degree.

4.2 Compulsory modules for a major subject for the BBA degree:

First level: ARH101, 102 Second level: ARH201, 203

Third level: HAR300 (as from 2002: ARH301, 302, 303, 304), ARH402

Students are advised to register for one or more of the following modules for nondegree purposes (NDP).

Graphic Art 1 (GAR101)

Two-dimensional Form 1 (TWF101) Three-dimensional Form 1 (THF101) Conceptualisation (CCT301)

Exhibitionism, Presentation and Documentation (EXH301) Contemporary international art (Art History (ARH401))

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SYLLABUS

First-level modules

ARH101-E Visual literacy (S1)

Purpose: to introduce students to visual literacy and the scope, aims and methods of art history Students are introduced to the different ways of looking at and interpreting works of art and architecture; a history of the critical methodologies employed within the discipline from the time of Vasari to the present day; and the aims of arthistorical research within the context of a revisionist approach.

ARH102-F Art today (S2)

Purpose: to introduce students to issues pertaining to contemporary art, namely exhibitions, the art market, media and advertising and art and technology. It considers the nature of ``mega-exhibitions'` and the changing role of art, artists and curators as cultural activists; art as the product of economic relations between parties with different vested interests in the material object; visual strategies used in the media and advertising; and the impact of technology on contemporary culture in general and art in particular.

Second-level modules

ARH201-H Art and ideology 1 (S1) Prerequisite: HAR100 or ARH101, 102

Purpose: to provide students with a consideration of the visual arts as an expression of socio-political ideologies. The art selected for this investigation belongs to different periods preceding the 20th century and stems from various places and cultures. The aim is to highlight ways in which socio- political ideologies condition the production of art. Topics include: colonialism in 19th-century Southern Africa; Renaissance art and the depiction of women; Yoruba cosmology and material culture,' David and the art of the French Revolution.

ARH202-J Art and transcendence (S1)

Purpose: to provide students with different conceptualisations of the sacred and the relationship between human beings and the sacred in different cultural contexts. Attention is focused on art which is specifically interwoven with aspects of religious life: the Northern Renaissance; the Italian Baroque and the Roman Catholic Church; the art of ancient Benin and the concept of royal divinity; the art of Egypt.

ARH203-K Art theory and criticism 1 (S2) Prerequisite: HAR100 or ARH101, 102

been developed since the Renaissance up to the mid twentieth century. It requires critical reading of original writings and later commentaries in order to arrive at a critical assessment of earlier methodologies. Topics include: Renaissance theory of Alberti; 15th-century Florentine painting and perspective; African art history; the concept of classicism.

ARH204-L Art and patronage (S2)

Purpose: to enable students to understand and analyse patronage as the chief area of social context which informs the form and content of the visual arts. The area of study includes objects of European and African cultures of historical times up to the 19th century: 15th-century Florentine art and the influence of humanist patronage; 17th-century Dutch painting as comment on materialism; Roman art and imperialism; 19th-century South African colonial images.

Third level

HAR300-G (Course III) (three papers of three hours each) Prerequisite: HAR200

Syllabus:

Paper1(HAR305-M):

Art and Society: selected topics relating to 19th- and 20th-century art and architecture in Europe and the USA.

Paper2(HAR306-N):

Modernism and Realism: selected topics relating to 19th- and 20th-century art and architecture in Europe and the USA.

Paper3(HAR307-P):

African art and architecture: selected topics

Third-level modules 2002

ARH301-L Art and ideology 2 (S1) Prerequisite: ARH201 or HAR202

Purpose: to enable students to understand and analyse the intimate alliance that exists between art and ideology, with specific reference to the twentieth century. A primary area of investigation is Western Modernism and the ways in which artists and theorists are challenging Modernist notions, fore- grounding gender and socio-political dimensions in the society in which art is produced. Areas of investigation are: Early European Modernism; Cubism; Dada and Duchamp; Primitivism. ARH302-M Art, craft and design (S1)

Purpose: to enable students to understand and analyse industrial aspects of art in contrast to artistic endeavour in which individual expression is regarded as the dominant force behind its production. Aspects covered are: William Morris, John Ruskin, and their theories of art as a tool for social upliftment in industrial England; co-operative art projects in Africa and elsewhere in the previously colonised world, often initiated under the auspices of missionary groups, where art functions as a primary source of income for people marginalised from `Western'-style commodity culture; Bauhaus and Modernist design in mid twentieth-century Europe; and training in South Africa since the 1950s. ARH303-N Art theory and criticism 2 (S2)

Prerequisite: ARH203 or HAR203

Purpose: to enable students to understand and analyse art theory and criticism with a focus on the 20th century. It covers the following aspects: Modernism post 1945; American Feminism of the 1950s to the 1970s; colonialism and postcolonialism; world and image. The aim is to relate these discourses to praxis.

ARH304-P Popular visual culture (S2)

Purpose:to enable students to understand and analyse popular visual culture in the twentieth century, specifically in relation to consumerism. As such, the module looks at the emergence of graphic design; aspects of popular visual culture in Africa; Pop art and consumer culture; the age of photography. The aim is to critically consider popular visual culture as a feature of increasing consumerism and to theorise `high' and `low' culture.

Fourth-level modules

Prerequisite: ARH301, 303

Advice: As from 2002, these modules may be taken in the place of ARH202, ARH204, ARH304 or ARH302 to comply with the requirements for a major BA subject, provided students completed ARH301 and ARH303.

ARH401-P Contemporary international art (S1)

Purpose: to enable students to understand and analyse contemporary discourse on visual culture in the international context, but with sharp focus on controversies and deliberations of the last 30 years. Debates on the relationship between art and the community or the public, categorisations and definitions of art and critical methodologies are scrutinised. Two controversial programmes in thinking, Conceptualism and Postmodernism, form the core of this module.

ARH402-Q Contemporary South African art (S2)

Purpose: to enable students to understand and analyse contemporary discourse on visual culture in the South African context. Debates on the relationship between art and the South African community and the public, categorisations and definitions of art and critical methodologies are scrutinised. Conceptualism and Postmodern ism form the core of this module, but with local application. Special attention is paid to the nature and orientation of exhibitions in the South African context.