DEPARTMENT
OF THE HISTORY OF ART
Lecture List for Hilary Term 2015
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Manager.
Lectures begin on the first possible day after the beginning of Full Term (Sunday, 18 January) 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)
Gendering Art and Its Histories
Prof Geraldine Johnson
19 Jan
Colonialism and After
Dr Camille Mathieu
26 Jan
The Gaze
Prof Hanneke Grootenboer
2 Feb
Art and Anthropology
Prof Craig Clunas
9 Feb
Architecture and Space
Dr Matthew Walker
16 Feb
Modernism and Post-Modernism
Dr Alex Taylor
23 Feb
The Art Museum
Prof Geraldine Johnson
2 Mar
Art as Material Object
Prof Geraldine Johnson
9 Mar
Convenor:
Prof G Rosser
Wks 1-8
W. 10-11 am
History of Art Undergraduate Course
THE PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION
Antiquity After Antiquity: The Reception of
Classical Art from the Middle Ages to the
Twentieth Century
(open lectures)
The Tyranny of Antiquity
21 Jan
Old Stories: Telling the History of Art in
Antiquity
28 Jan
In Between What? The ‘Middle Ages’
04 Feb
The Shock of the Old, and a New History of
Art
11 Feb
History of Art,
2nd Floor,
Littlegate House,
St Ebbes
(lecture theatre)
Antique Fragments and the Artistic
Imagination
18 Feb
Ancient Art the Measure of Beauty and Taste
25 Feb
Antiquity on Display: Museums and Cultural
Politics
04 Mar
Classicism and Modernism: An Impossible
Rupture?
11 Mar
THE FINAL HONOUR SCHOOL
Dr M Walker
Wks 1-8
M. 11.30 am –
1 pm
History of Art,
2nd Floor,
Littlegate House,
St Ebbes
(seminar room)
Anglo-Saxon Archaeology, 600-750
Prof H Hamerow
Wks 1-8
F. 2-4 pm
Institute of
Archaeology, 36
Beaumont Street
(seminar room)
Court Culture and Art in Early Modern
Europe
Prof G A Johnson
Wks 1-8
M. 2-3.30 pm
Except Wk 4 –
3.45-5.15 pm
History of Art,
2nd Floor,
Littlegate House,
St Ebbes
(seminar room)
Culture and Society in Early Renaissance
Italy, 1290-1348
Prof G Rosser
Wks 1-8
T. 3 pm
St Catherine’s
College, Manor
Road
Flanders and Italy in the Quattrocento
Prof G Rosser
Wks 1-8
Th. 2 pm
St Catherine’s
College, Manor
Road
Intellect and Culture in Victorian Britain
Prof J Garnett
Wks 1-8
T. 2 pm
Wadham College,
Parks Road
Prof D Hicks
TBA
European Cinema
Convenor:
Dr R Due
Wks 1-5
Taylor Institution,
St Giles
Lectures
Various
M. 10 am
(Room 10b)
Lecture screenings
Various
W. 2-4 pm
(Main Hall)
Approaches to the History of Art
(class, History of Art BA students only)
Further Subjects in Western Art:
(closed classes for attendance by appointed BA
students)
Classical, Pre-Modern or Non Western Art
Options:
(lectures and classes for attendance by
enrolled BA students)
Understanding Museums and Collections
Modern Art Options:
(lectures and classes for attendance by
enrolled BA students)
Modernism and After:
Feminism and the Artist's Body
Dr A Gardner & Dr T Kittler
Wks 1-8
Lectures
W. 11 am
Seminars
W. 1-4 pm
Examination
Schools, High
Street
BA (Yr 3) Thesis Symposium
(appointed students only)
Convenor:
Prof G Rosser
Wk 6
Th. 10 am –
3 pm
History of Art
2nd Floor,
Littlegate House,
St Ebbes
(lecture theatre)
History of Art Department Careers Seminar
(appointed students only)
Convenors:
L Hawkins (Careers Service)
& R Woodruff
Wk 3
T. 2-4.30 pm
History of Art
2nd Floor,
Littlegate House,
St Ebbes
(lecture theatre)
Group 1
Wks 1-2,4,7-8
T. 2-4 pm
Group 2
Wks 1-2,4,7-8
T. 9-11 am
History of Art,
2nd Floor,
Littlegate House,
St Ebbes
(seminar room)
All
Wks 3, 5-6
T. 9-11 am
(lecture theatre)
MSt IN THE HISTORY OF ART AND
VISUAL CULTURE
Theory and Methods in the History of Art
(class, MSt and designated graduate students
only)
Convenor:
Prof G A Johnson
MSt Optional courses:
(appointed students only)
French Painting, 1880-1912
Dr C Mathieu
Wks 1-8
W. 11 am –
1 pm
History of Art,
2nd Floor,
Littlegate House,
St Ebbes
(lecture theatre)
Gothic: Artistic Originality and the
Transmission of Style in Medieval Art
Prof G Rosser
Wks 1-8
W. 11.30 am –
1 pm
History of Art,
2nd Floor,
Littlegate House,
St Ebbes
(seminar room)
Image and Thought
Prof H Grootenboer
Wks 1-8
Th. 10 am –
12 pm
The Old Masters’
Studio, Ruskin
School, High
Street
Women, Art and Culture in Early Modern
Europe
Prof G A Johnson
Wks 1-8
Th. 11 am –
1 pm
History of Art,
2nd Floor,
Littlegate House,
St Ebbes
(seminar room)
Careers session for graduate students:
Transferring skills onto your CV
(for attendance by HoA MSt and research
students)
Lucy Hawkins
(Careers Service)
Wk 8
M. 11 am –
12 pm
History of Art,
2nd Floor,
Littlegate House,
St Ebbes
(lecture theatre)
Reading Italian for Art Historians
(enrolled HOA students only)
T Batelli-Kneale
Wks 1-8
F. 11 am –
1 pm
Language Centre,
Woodstock Road
Oxford Art History Research Seminar
(open seminars)
Convenors:
Dr M Leino (Humanities,
Oxford Brookes), Dr M
Walker (History of Art,
Oxford), Prof T Wilson
(Ashmolean)
Wks 1-8
T. 5 pm
TORCH,
Radcliffe
Humanities,
Radcliffe
Observatory
Quarter,
Woodstock Road
X is for an Expert on Bathrooms: Alexander
Kira and Peter Greenaway's 26 Bathrooms
Dr Barbara Penner
(Bartlett)
20 Jan
'Noli me tangere': On Not Touching and Not
Knowing in Georges Rouault's Modernism
Dr Jennifer Johnson
(Oxford)
27 Jan
Beyond Orientalism. Photography and the
Middle East
Dr Mirjam Brusius
(Oxford)
3 Feb
Locating artists' libraries in early modern Spain
and Italy
Dr Marta Cacho Casal
(Brookes)
10 Feb
Dürer, Instruments and the Aesthetics of 'nonart' Images
Dr Alexander Marr
(Cambridge)
17 Feb
Collecting Paintings in late Victorian and
Edwardian England: the Brocklebank Family
and the Story of their Art Collection
Dr Tim Hunter
(Fine Art Consultant)
24 Feb
Theorising Abstraction and Sculpture before
1914
Prof Michael White
(York)
3 Mar
‘Sum quia pictura': The Garrulous Image in the
Early Renaissance
Dr Peter Dent
(Bristol)
10 Mar
History of Art Transfer of Status Talks
(appointed students only)
Convenor:
Prof C Clunas
Wk 7
T. 2-5 pm
History of Art
2nd Floor,
Littlegate House,
St Ebbes
(lecture theatre)
Wks 1-8
W. 2-4 pm
(unless
otherwise
stated)
History Faculty,
George Street
(unless otherwise
stated)
RESEARCH
History Faculty Graduate Training
Seminars:
(for new, continuing and advanced graduate
students)
See
http://www.history.ox.ac.uk/faculty/events.html
for full details
SLADE LECTURES 2015
The Print Before Photography:
The European print in the age of the copper
plate and wooden block
(open lectures)
Prof Antony Griffiths
(Former Keeper of the
Department of Prints and
Drawings, British Museum)
Wks 1-8
W. 5 pm
The technology and its implications
21 Jan
The world of the print: engravers and
designers
28 Jan
The publisher: finance, distribution and
marketing
04 Feb
The role of the state: copyright, censorship
and patronage
11 Feb
Buyers, collectors and connoisseurs
18 Feb
The cheap print
25 Feb
The print and the art historian
04 Mar
Misunderstanding prints
11 Mar
Mathematical
Institute, Andrew
Wiles Building,
Radcliffe
Observatory
Quarter,
Woodstock Road
OTHER LECTURES AND SEMINARS
Italian Renaissance Seminar
(open seminars)
Convenors:
Dr N Davidson,
Prof G Rosser
Wks 1-6
M. 5 pm
Clothing the word: Lippi, Donatello, and
Bellini
Prof Paul Hills
(Courtauld)
19 Jan
Veneto-Byzantine encounters in the devotional
arts (14th-15th centuries)
Prof Michele Bacci
(Fribourg)
26 Jan
Reproducing sculpture in public, private, and
Oxford: Designs and copies in the Italian
Renaissance workshop
Dr Jim Harris
(Ashmolean Museum)
2 Feb
Voices under trial: Inquisition and preachers in
sixteenth-century Italy
Dr Stefano Dall’Aglio
(Leeds)
9 Feb
Domestic devotion and devotional readings in
sixteenth-century Italy: The case of the Duchy
of Urbino
Dr Marco Faini
(Cambridge)
16 Feb
In search of Michelangelo’s Tityus
Dr Alexander Lee
(St Catherine’s College,
Oxford)
23 Feb
Medieval Visual Culture Seminar
(open seminars)
Convenors:
Dr J Berenbeim, Dr E
Guerry & Prof G Rosser
Wks 2, 4, 6
T. 1 pm
St Catherine’s
College, Manor
Road
St Catherine’s
College, Manor
Road