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Birkbeck, University of London
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This module shall examine such issues via the Symbolists, the New Objectivity movement, Nazi art, New Deal art, Socialist Realism, Pop art, Superrealism, community arts and western popular...
Hours of study:Part-time day
Birkbeck, University of London
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In this practical module, students will learn how to write and colour Kufi...
Hours of study:Part-time evening
Birkbeck, University of London
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This module will focus on art in two cities, examining the political, religious, philosophical, social and urban contexts. Stylistic and technical developments will be covered with an emphasis on three major figures:...
Hours of study:Part-time
Birkbeck, University of London
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This module will look at painted arts, sculpture and architecture to understand the visual culture of Ancient Greece and Rome. Starting with Minoan and Mycenaean art, they trace the developments in painted and sculpted art...
Hours of study:Part-time day
Birkbeck, University of London
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This module considers the impact of the traumatic events of the twentieth century, and those whose work is concerned with the resulting issues of identity and memory. Artists studied include Kiefer, Baselitz, Boltanski,...
Hours of study:Part-time
Birkbeck, University of London
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The nineteenth century was marked by huge social, political and technological changes. This module will consider how artists engaged with key issues of the time such as urbanisation and industrialisation, nation and empire,...
Hours of study:Part-time day
Birkbeck, University of London
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This course addresses the paradox that the Soviet Union adopted aesthetically conservative Socialist Realism as its official art, whereas the Western democracies preached traditional values, but supported avant-garde high...
Hours of study:Part-time
Birkbeck, University of London
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How should the art of this time be understood? Should people link its strangeness to the insecurities of war, to the terrifying new orthodoxies and opponents that came out of war; or do sense its truth through the new...
Hours of study:Part-time day
Birkbeck, University of London
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This module explores issues of design, technique and content, and provides an opportunity to discuss both famous and lesser-known exponents of the art of fresco in Italy. The fifteenth century saw a period of dramatic...
Hours of study:Part-time day
Birkbeck, University of London
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This course enables the participants to learn about the fourteenth century which was a period of great development for the Italian fresco cycle from the point of view of design, technique and content. This module is an...
Hours of study:Part-time
Birkbeck, University of London
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This practical module introduces the principles of Islamic geometric design. Using the traditional tools of compass and straight edge, it will each week recreate a beautiful pattern from a different part of the Islamic...
Hours of study:Part-time evening
Birkbeck, University of London
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This course covers what is shown in the arts institutions? How can arts managers, artists and policy-makers effect change? What are the key issues for local and regional funding bodies in maintaining arts provision?. It...
Hours of study:Part-time evening
Birkbeck, University of London
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This course covers what is arts education and is there a distinction to be made between arts education, education in the arts and education through the arts? Can students be a creative risk-taker or are they limited by...
Hours of study:Part-time evening
Birkbeck, University of London
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This module covers a wide variety of artistic traditions. External cultural influences have been integrated into indigenous styles, resulting in the enormously rich and diverse arts found there today. Links connecting these...
Hours of study:Part-time
Birkbeck, University of London
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This course covers how do students understand the audiences and communities that visit arts organisations? What happens when art is taken out of formal contexts? How can artists and arts managers work together to create...
Hours of study:Part-time evening
Birkbeck, University of London
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This module explores the variety and richness of objects and...
Hours of study:Part-time day
Birkbeck, University of London
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This course covers embroidery, popular prints, knot work and shadow puppets are just a few examples of Chinese people’s artistic ingenuity and creativity. These artefacts are lively, powerful expressions of Chinese popular...
Hours of study:Part-time
Birkbeck, University of London
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This module examines the art and architecture of the classic period (AD 250-700) in Mesoamerica. It will focus on Teotihuacan's recent excavations of the Pyramids of the Moon and Feathered Serpent and unique mural paintings....
Hours of study:Part-time
Birkbeck, University of London
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This course will investigate visual forms that survived from the Greek and Roman world into later periods of art. Early Christians used many Roman themes, some surviving through the medieval world into the Renaissance. Other...
Hours of study:Part-time day
Birkbeck, University of London
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This module explores how French painting in the age of the ‘Enlightenment’ witnessed the transition from the sharp-edged neo-Classicism of Poussin, to the voluptuous sensuality of Watteau and Fragonard, but ended in the...
Hours of study:Part-time
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