Introduction to Art History

2025/2026

Учебный год

ENG

Обучение ведется на английском языке

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Кредиты

Кто читает:

Кафедра гуманитарных дисциплин (Пермь) (Факультет социально-экономических и компьютерных наук)

Статус:

Курс обязательный

Когда читается:

5-й курс, 1 модуль

Преподаватель

Прозументик Кирилл Витальевич

Course Syllabus

Abstract

The course "Introduction to the History of Art" provides a short and rich excursion into the history of painting, sculpture and architecture, which will help students not only become competent in the analysis of works of classical art, but also see the imprint that historical phenomena leave on modern culture. Thanks to this course, you will learn to see the beauty of ancient paintings, understand the language of architecture, and feel the plasticity of ancient statues. Not only will you be able to get a clear picture of the styles that have succeeded each other in the history of art, but you will also understand the internal logic that determined the character of each of them.

Learning Objectives

• 1) Formation of students' general ideas about the key epochs in the development of world art from ancient times to the present day. 2) Familiarization with the most important artistic achievements and key artifacts of the ancient world, ancient Greece and ancient Rome, the Western European Middle Ages, painting and architecture of the Renaissance, European art of the XVII-XIX centuries, as well as fine art and architecture in the XX century. 3) Formation of ideas about the main problems of art history, as well as theoretical models, directions and methods of studying art history. 4) Familiarization with the main styles and trends in European art, as well as national schools that have made a significant contribution to the development of world fine art and architecture.

Expected Learning Outcomes

• Obtain knowledge and analyzing skills in the Art History and Mythology
• skills in the analysis of works of fine art - graphics, painting, architecture and sculpture

Course Contents

• Topic 1. Primitive Era Art
• Topic 2. Ancient Egypt Art
• Topic 3. Ancient Greece Art
• Topic 4. Ancient Rome Art
• Topic 5. Early Christian Art and Byzantium Art. Western European Middle Ages Art
• Topic 6. Renaissance art in Italy. Northern Renaissance Art
• Topic 7. Western European Art in XVII-XVIII centuries
• Topic 8. Western European Art in the XIX century
• Topic 9. Art of the late XIX — early XX century
• Topic 10. Main trends in contemporary art

Assessment Elements

• Answers in seminar classes
  Answers in seminar classes
• Essay
  Writing an essay on art history
• Final test
  Writing the final text on all thematic blocks of the course.

Interim Assessment

• 2025/2026 1st module
  0.4 * Answers in seminar classes + 0.3 * Essay + 0.3 * Final test

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

• 9789004447776 - Jennifer Cochran Anderson, Douglas N. Dow - Visualizing the Past in Italian Renaissance Art - 2021 - Brill - http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=2896696 - nlebk - 2896696
• Jae Emerling. (2019). Theory for Art History : Adapted From Theory for Religious Studies, by William E. Deal and Timothy K. Beal: Vol. Second edition. Routledge.
• Pooke, G., & Newall, D. (2008). Art History: The Basics. London: Routledge. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=221026
• Preziosi, D. (2009). The Art of Art History : A Critical Anthology (Vol. 2nd ed). Oxford: OUP Oxford. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=335669
• Principles of art history : the problem of the development of style in early modern art, Wolfflin, H., 2015
• S. Nelson, R. (2016). Byzantine Art vs Western Medieval Art. France, Europe: Publications de la Sorbonne. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsbas&AN=edsbas.E61E4B57
• Woodfield, R. (2001). Art History As Cultural History : Warburg’s Projects. Routledge.
• Процукович, Е. А. European Art and Artists : учебное пособие / Е. А. Процукович, Ю. П. Иванашко, О. Б. Карачева. — Благовещенск : АмГУ, 2022. — 1401 с. — Текст : электронный // Лань : электронно-библиотечная система. — URL: https://e.lanbook.com/book/345005 (дата обращения: 00.00.0000). — Режим доступа: для авториз. пользователей.

Recommended Additional Bibliography

• 50 contemporary artists : you should know, Finger, B., 2011
• 9781315311913 - Stacey J. Pierson - Private Collecting, Exhibitions, and the Shaping of Art History in London : The Burlington Fine Arts Club - 2019 - Routledge - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=1451807 - nlebk - 1451807
• A dictionary of modern and contemporary art, Chilvers, I., 2009
• A history of ancient Egypt, Grimal, N., 2008
• A realist theory of art history, Verstegen, I., 2013
• Creative enterprise : contemporary art between museum and marketplace, Buskirk, M., 2012
• Critical terms for art history, , 2003
• Finch, M. (2016). Dead and Alive: Warburg’s Mnemosyne Atlas. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsbas&AN=edsbas.78819E9D
• Gale, C. L. (2016). A Study Guide for E. H. Gombrich’s “Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation.” [N.p.]: Gale, Cengage Learning. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1365960
• Is art history global?, , 2007
• Jonathan Harris. (2001). The New Art History : A Critical Introduction. Routledge.
• Mansfield, E. (2002). Art History and Its Institutions : The Nineteenth Century. London: Routledge. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=139125
• Simon Ford. (2015). Information Sources in Art, Art History and Design (Vol. Reprint 2015). Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter Saur. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1019417
• The art of art history: a critical anthology, , 2009
• The Image of a Sculptor in Medieval and Renaissance Art ; Образ скульптора в искусстве Средних веков и Возрождения. (2013). Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsbas&AN=edsbas.6B5F414
• The museum establishment and contemporary art : the politics of artistic display in France after 1968, DeRoo, R. J., 2014
• The primacy of the image in northern European art, 1499-1700 : essays in honor of Larry Silver, , 2017
• The psychology of contemporary art, Minissale, G., 2013
• Theory in contemporary art since 1985, , 2013
• Thinking about art : a thematic guide to art history, Huntsman, P., 2016
• Wallace, W. E., & Michelangelo Buonarroti. (2010). Michelangelo : The Artist, the Man and His Times. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=400651

Authors

• Prozumentik Kirill Vitalevich
• Mingalev Vitalii Viktorovich