ARTHIST 114

Understanding Art: Leonardo to Warhol

Description

Visual intelligence is crucial in navigating the world of images that convey coded messages, and the history of ideas fundamental to all disciplines. How do we read such images? This course decodes paintings, sculptures, prints, architecture, photography and digital images, providing, tools to analyse artists from Leonardo to Warhol: experts at moving the eye around the artwork for meanings to emerge.

For full course information see the Digital Course Outline.

Digital Course Outlines for 2025 will be refreshed around November/December

Availability 2025

Semester 2

Lecturer(s)

Lecturer(s) Associate Professor Erin Griffey
Professor Gregory Minissale

Recommended Reading

Eisenman, Stephen (ed.). Nineteenth Century Art: A Critical History. 3rd ed. London: Thames and Hudson, 1994.

Frascina, Francis et al. Modernity and Modernism: French Painting in the Nineteenth Century. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993.

Assessment

Coursework + Exam

Points

ARTHIST 114: 15 points