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DEPARTMENT OF THE HISTORY OF ART

Lecture List for Hilary Term 2008

NOTICE: Attention is drawn to the provisions of the University’s decrees, Ch. X, Sect. XI (Statutes, Decrees, and Regulations, 2000, pp. 761-63), under which non-members of the University, with certain stated exemptions, may not attend university lectures (unless they are announced as open to the general public) without the payment of a fee, otherwise than by the personal invitation of the lecturer concerned. Persons who are neither reading for a qualification of this University nor otherwise exempt, and who wish to attend lectures in any term, should apply to the Fees Clerk, University Offices, Wellington Square, Oxford OX1 2JD, for details of fees. Senior visiting scholars from other universities who wish to attend lectures, seminars, or classes should normally apply to the lecturer concerned, and not to the Fees Clerk. Lectures begin on the first possible day after the beginning of Full Term (Sunday, 13 January) unless otherwise stated Lectures will begin five minutes after the hour and finish at five minutes before the next hour Subject Lecturer Time Place HISTORY OF ART Art History: Concepts and Methods (open lectures)

Convenors: Prof C Clunas & Dr G Rosser

Wks 1-8 M. 10am

2nd Floor, Littlegate House, St Ebbes (lecture theatre)

Art and anthropology

Prof C Clunas 14 Jan

Iconology and iconography: Panofsky and after

Prof M Kemp 21 Jan

Visual Culture Prof C Clunas 28 Jan

Colonialism and after: discourses of difference

Dr A Wright 4 Feb

Gender: male and female bodies Dr G Rosser 11 Feb

The museum: strategies of collecting and display

Dr M Kwint 18 Feb

Space: the geography of images Dr G Rosser 25 Feb

The object: materials, making and meaning Prof C Clunas 3 Mar

History of Art Undergraduate Course

THE PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION Antiquity After Antiquity (open lectures)

Convenor: Dr G Rosser

Wks 1-8 T. 10am


Byzantium: The New Rome Dr G Rosser 15 Jan

Reconsidering the Reception of the Apollo Belvedere

Dr M Fehlmann 22 Jan

Renaissance Sculpture and Antiquity Dr M Leino 29 Jan

Another Antiquity? Uses of the Past in Chinese Art

Prof C Clunas 5 Feb

The New Pygmalion: The Display and Use of Plaster Casts by Artist-Collectors in Eighteenth-Century Britain

Aimee Blackledge 12 Feb

American Artists and Antique Rome in the Nineteenth Century

Dr L Whiteley 19 Feb

The Meaning of the Classical in French Modernism

Dr A Wright 26 Feb

Delacroix and the Classical Tradition Dr J Whiteley 4 Mar Classical Options: (lectures for attendance by appointed BA students) Greek Vases II Greek Sculpture I: Archaic Greek Sculpture Revision Roman Architecture I

Convenors: Prof D Kurtz Dr M Stamatopoulou Dr M Stamatopoulou Dr J DeLaine

Wks 1-5 M & Th. 12pm Wks 1-5 W & F. 12pm Wks 1-8 W. 5pm Wks 1-8 Th. 2pm

Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies 66 St Giles' Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies Lincoln College Institute of Archaeology, Beaumont Street

THE FINAL HONOUR SCHOOL Further Subjects in Western Art: (Classes for attendance by appointed BA students)

Culture and Society in Early Renaissance Italy, 1290-1348

Dr G Rosser Wks 1-8 T. 10 am

History Faculty George Street

Flanders and Italy in the Quattrocento, 1420-80

Dr G Rosser & Dr M Vale

Wks 1-8 Th. 11am

St John’s College St Giles’

Intellect and Culture in Victorian Britain

Dr Goldman

Wks 1-8 T. 5pm

Theberge Room, St Peter’s College, New Inn Hall Street

Classical, Pre-Modern or Non Western Art Options: (lectures for attendance by appointed BA students)

Art under the Roman Empire II Dr J DeLaine

Wks 1-8 W. 2.30pm

Institute of Archaeology, Beaumont Street

Material Culture and the Anthropology of Things

Dr D Hicks Wks 1-6 M. 2-4

Seminar Room Pitt Rivers Museum South Parks Road

Modern Art Option: (lectures for attendance by appointed BA students)

Modernism and After Dr K Reed-Tsocha

Wks 1-8 M. 11am

Examination Schools, High St

BA (Yr 3) Thesis Symposium (appointed students only)

Convenor: Dr G Rosser

Wk 7 W. 12-4pm


History of Art Department Careers Seminar (History of Art students only)

Wk 5 W. 2-4pm


M.ST IN THE HISTORY OF ART An Introduction to Historiography and Methods of Art History (class, MSt and designated graduate students only)

Convenor: Prof C Clunas

Wks 1-8 M. 2pm


Departmental Research Seminar (open seminars)

Joint Convenors: Prof C Clunas, Prof M Kemp & Ms K Barush

Wks 1-8 T. 3.30pm


Through the Magnifying Glass: The Significance of Small Scale in the Work of Richard Pettibone

Elisa Schaar (History of Art, Oxford)

15 Jan

The Chamber of Genius: The Collection of Curiosities by Artists in Eighteenth- Century London

Aimee Blackledge (History of Art, Oxford)

22 Jan

Past Perfect. On The Construction of Old Master Narratives

Dr Maria Loh (UCL)

29 Jan

Passionate and Political: Winckelmann and his influence in the critical reviews of French sculpture 1801-1860

Fiona Gatty (History of Art, Oxford)

5 Feb

Vindication of Imagination: the circle of William Godwin and the material sublime, 1756 - 1815

Kate Barush (History of Art, Oxford)

12 Feb

Painting and the spectre of Naturalism, c.1880

Dr Alastair Wright (History of Art, Oxford)

19 Feb

Leonardo and his circle: inventing, mixing and matching

Dr Juliana Barone (History of Art, Oxford)

26 Feb

Understanding the term sublime in a contemporary art context

Letice Littlewood (History of Art, Oxford)

4 Mar

Art History Research Seminar (open seminars)

Convenors: Dr M Leino (History of Art, Oxford), Dr C Payne (Humanities, Oxford Brookes), Dr. C Whistler (Ashmolean)

Wks 2,4,6 & 8 Th. 5pm

Headley Lecture Theatre, Ashmolean Museum

Planning a Holman Hunt exhibition Carol Jacobi (Godolphin and Latymer School)

24 Jan

John Flaxman's travel diaries and sketchbooks from his trip to Italy in 1787-94

Eckart Marchand (Reading)

7 Feb

The Problem of the Copy in Chinese Painting

Prof Craig Clunas (History of Art, Oxford)

21 Feb

The Renaissance Palace in Florence: Magnificence and Splendour in Fifteenth Century Italy

James Lindow (AXA Art Insurance Ltd)

6 Mar


MSt Optional courses:

Renaissance Art and Visual Knowledge (Leonardesque themes from Brunelleschi to Galileo) (open lectures)

Prof M Kemp Wks 1-8 Th. 2-3pm


Piero della Francesca and glories of light

17 Jan

Leonardo and the remaking of nature: the art of science and technology

24 Jan

Michelangelo, Leonardo, the Medici and the Republic

31 Jan

Raphael and the engineering of narrative

7 Feb

Dürer and the Italian ideal

14 Feb

Uses of Naturalism: anatomy and the representation of nature (part I)

21 Feb

Uses of Naturalism: anatomy and the representation of nature (part II)

28 Feb

Portraying the heavens - from Copernicus to Galileo

6 Mar

Renaissance Art and Visual Knowledge (Leonardesque themes from Brunelleschi to Galileo) (class, appointed MSt students only)

Prof M Kemp & Dr G Rosser

Wks 1-8 Th. 3-5pm

2nd Floor, Littlegate House, St Ebbes

French Painting, 1880-1912: Histories and Debates

Dr A Wright Wks 2,4 6 & 8 T. 11am

2nd Floor, Littlegate House, St Ebbes (seminar room)

Authenticity and Replication in Art and Visual Culture

Prof C Clunas Wks 1,3,5& 7 T. 11am

2nd Floor, Littlegate House, St Ebbes (seminar room)

Reading Italian for Art Historians (enrolled HOA students only)

Ms T Batelli-Kneale Wks 1-8 W. 11am-1pm

Language Centre, Woodstock Road

SLADE LECTURES 2008 Art and Non-Art/ Experiments in Modern Realism 1945-1965 (Open lectures)

Prof Alex Potts (Department of History of Art, University of Michigan)

Wks 1-8 W. 5pm

Museum of Natural History, Parks Road

The Artist’s Project: Art Work Beyond the Domain of Art

16 Jan

Art and the Substance of Things: Postwar Europe and America

23 Jan

Vernacular Picture Making: Jean Dubuffet

30 Jan

The New Realism: Between Commitment and Consumerism

6 Feb

The World as Assemblage: Robert Rauschenberg

13 Feb

Art and Life: the Theatre of Happenings

20 Feb

Actions and Radical Hybridity: Joseph Beuys

27 Feb

Artifice and Nature: Arte Povera’s Everyday Objects

5 Mar

Slade Seminars (History of Art students only)

Prof Alex Potts Wks 2, 4, 6 & 8 Th. 11am-1pm

2nd Floor, Littlegate House, St Ebbes (Lecture Theatre)

Painting and the Substance of Things 24 Jan

The New Realism 7 Feb

Happenings and Assemblage 21 Feb

Art and Non-Art 6 Mar OTHER LECTURES AND SEMINARS

Medieval Art and Architecture: Great Buildings in Context (open lectures)

Convenors: Dr M Cohen, Dr Lucy Donkin, Dr T Pickles & Dr G Rosser

Wks 1-8 F. 2pm

2nd Floor, Littlegate House, St Ebbes (Lecture Theatre)

Italian Renaissance Seminar (open seminars)

Convenors: Mr N Davidson & Dr G Rosser

Wks 1-6 M. 5pm

St Catherine’s College, Manor Rd

Dislocating holiness: City, place and sanctity in Baroque Italy

Helen Hills (York)

14 Jan

Indecent exposure: Nudity in Italian Renaissance art

Jill Burke (Edinburgh)

21 Jan

Commerce in palaces: urbanism, retail and elite architecture in early modern Italy

Fabrizio Nevola (Oxford Brookes)

28 Jan

The art of healing: hospitals in Renaissance Italy

John Henderson (Birkbeck)

4 Feb

Painted pedestals and ideal orders in late 15th- and early 16th-century Italian art

Alison Wright (UCL)

11 Feb

The speaking sculpture in late medieval and early Renaissance Italy

Peter Dent (Courtauld)

18 Feb

Khalili Research Centre Graduate Seminar (open seminars)

Wks 1-8 T. 2-3.30pm

Khalili Research Centre, St John St

Art and Architecture in the Islamic World ca. 900-1250 (open lectures)

Prof J Allan & Dr L Parodi

Wks 1-8 W. 12-13.30pm

Khalili Research Centre, St John St

Arts in the Islamic World ca. 900-1250 Prof J Allan, Prof J Wks 1-8 Khalili Research

(open lectures)

Johns, Dr O Watson & Dr L Parodi

M. 11am-12.30pm

Centre, St John St

The Bible in Art, Music and Literature Convenors: Prof C Rowland & Dr C Joynes

Wks 2, 4, 6 & 8 M. 5pm

Danson Room, Trinity College, Broad St

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