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Art, Creativity and Identity
ARTH 101
What does art do? How do humans use art to express our diverse social, cultural, collective and individual identities? Through a series of case studies, this course examines the way visual art and culture is used to express identity and its relation ...
Art, Revolution and Crisis
ARTH 102
How has art changed the world? This course introduces students to the ways art has responded to political, cultural, social, environmental and technological revolutions over the past 250 years. We examine how art anticipates and interrogates the defi...
Art, Creativity and Identity
ARTH 103
What does art do? How do humans use art to express our diverse social, cultural, collective and individual identities? Through a series of case studies, this course examines the way visual art and culture is used to express identity and its relation ...
Art and Environment
ARTH 201
This course explores the relationship between art and the environment, with a focus on art since 1968. Alongside changing definitions of 'nature' and what it means to be human, the course considers the role of art in environmental activism. Students ...
This course examines the relationship between art, politics and power in Europe from the French Revolution to the end of the nineteenth century. Topics include: the art of revolution and reaction, romanticism and subjectivity, the crisis of the Europ...
Topics in Aotearoa New Zealand Art
ARTH 208
This course introduces students to a topic in art in Aotearoa New Zealand, developed and delivered by the Oroya and Melvin Day Fellow in New Zealand Art History. Co-taught with ARTH 308.
Special Topic: Fashioning the Artist
ARTH 225
What it means to be an artist changes through history and across cultures. From medieval workshops to the artist as entrepreneur, this course looks at individual and collective approaches to artistic creation in Western and non-Western societies. The...
Monuments and Memory
ARTH 303
From Hagia Sophia, and Spiral Jetty, to the Matakana War Memorial, this course traces the role of art in collective memory. We consider the shifting practices of public art, the desires of the powerful to memorialise themselves through public sculptu...
Today, Indigenous artists across the world bring a challenging array of aesthetic, cultural, and political perspectives to the discourse of contemporary art. This course examines the ‘genealogies’ of these practices in the indigenisation of European ...
Topics in Aotearoa New Zealand Art
ARTH 308
This course introduces students to a topic in art in Aotearoa New Zealand, developed and delivered by the Oroya and Melvin Day Fellow in New Zealand Art History. Co-taught with ARTH 208.
Art History Methodology
ARTH 401
ARTH 401 critically examines the work of significant art historians in relation to key topics which have defined the history of the discipline. Topics will range from the construction of the artistic subject and the interpretation of meaning to the s...
Reading Artists Writing
ARTH 407
Writing by artists conveys a specific way of thinking about the relationships between image and text, creative practice, critical thought, aesthetics, imagination and history. With a focus on artist’s writing from Aotearoa New Zealand, this course wi...
Research Project
ARTH 489
A research project, usually in the form of an extended essay of 10,000 words, with regular guidance from a supervisor. Students are expected to show familiarity with the literature in their chosen field, and to write a substantial discussion, engagin...
Thesis
ARTH 591
MA thesis in Art History.
Art History for PhD
ARTH 690
PhD course.
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