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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 ...

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...

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 ...

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...

This course examines the role of art and vision in the formation of two globalising maritime civilisations, European and Oceanic, and in the encounters between them from the seventeenth century to the early twentieth century. The course considers way...

This course introduces the major artists, art forms and issues to have shaped the history of art in Aotearoa New Zealand. In particular, the course focuses on the effects of Māori-Pākehā interrelations, and the role of landscape and identity as key s...

This course positions women artists at the centre of New Zealand art between 1880 and 1940. It introduces students to a range of historical women artists practising in New Zealand, explores the socio- and art-historical contexts in which they worked,...

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...

This course looks at the work of artists, writers and critics associated with surrealism and its legacies. It will analyse the cultures of surrealism, exploring their relation to previous artistic and cultural movements, polemics within the surrealis...

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 ...

This course positions women artists at the centre of New Zealand art between 1880 and 1940. It introduces students to a range of historical women artists practising in New Zealand, explores the socio- and art-historical contexts in which they worked,...

This course introduces the major artists, art forms and issues to have shaped the history of art in Aotearoa New Zealand. In particular, the course focuses on the effects of Māori-Pākehā interrelations, and the role of landscape and identity as key s...

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...

The discovery of radioactivity, particularly the immense power released by splitting the atom, ushered in the atomic age. This course explores artistic representations of the atomic age, from the dematerialisation of the body by x-rays to the ongoing...

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...

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...

MA thesis in Art History.

PhD course.