AH3104 Central European Art, Architecture and Design, c. 1900

Academic year

2024 to 2025 Semester 1

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Key module information

SCOTCAT credits

30

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SCQF level

SCQF level 9

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Planned timetable

tba

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Module coordinator

Dr S M Kallestrup

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Module Staff

Dr S Kallestrup

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Module description

This module analyses the development of the central European art, architecture and design between the 1880s and the 1910s. Focusing on the Austro-Hungarian empire (in particular the cities of Vienna, Budapest, Prague and Cracow) and the Balkans (e.g. Romania, Bulgaria and Serbia), it examines significant new material expression in this key crucible of modern cultural forces. Emphasis is placed on the relationship between the artistic search for cultural and personal identity, the state and contemporary society. Issues of nationalism and supranationalism are analysed in the course of studying the work of such groups as the Austrian Secession, Wiener Werkstätte, Gödöllő colony, Mánes and Sztuka societies. Major figures include Klimt, (Otto) Wagner, Hoffmann, Lechner, Luksch-Makowsky, Mucha, Petrović, Rippl-Rónai and Wyspiański.

Relationship to other modules

Pre-requisites

BEFORE TAKING THIS MODULE YOU MUST PASS AH2001 AND PASS AH2002 AND ( PASS AH1001 OR PASS AH1003 )

Assessment pattern

Coursework = 100%

Re-assessment

Coursework = 100%

Learning and teaching methods and delivery

Weekly contact

1 x 2-hour lecture and related contact time (x 10 weeks), 1 x 1-hour tutorial (x 10 weeks), 2 x office hour (x 11 weeks).

Intended learning outcomes

  • understand the diversity of the material and intellectual cultures which shaped the heart of Europe around the turn of the twentieth century
  • recognise the distinctive impulses towards national recognition, individualism and modernism whose impact was so profound in shaping modern Europe and beyond
  • assess the individuals, ideas and cities in central Europe who and which played a prominent role in this
  • develop their critical thinking by the application and appraisal of various methodological approaches to visual materialshis
  • participate in group discussions and present their ideas clearly