Postgraduate Course: Klimt and His World: Secession Styles in the Habsburg Empire at the Turn of the Century (HIAR11081)
Course Outline
| School | Edinburgh College of Art |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Course type | Standard |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Credits | 20 |
| Home subject area | History of Art |
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Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | This year Vienna celebrates 150 years since the birth of Gustav Klimt, one of the founders of the Vienna Secession in 1897. Less well known to Western audiences are the related Secession movements (the Central European variants of Art Nouveau) that emerged in other regions of the Habsburg Empire between 1890 and 1914. Encompassing art, architecture and design and focusing on both urban and rural centres, this course offers a critical exploration of how the particular political and cultural conditions of the Austro-Hungarian Empire shaped the dynamic artistic activity of the period.
Beginning with Klimt and Vienna, it examines how state-sponsored historicism and craft-revival, Wagner's architectural modernism, the Vienna Secession and the Wiener Werkstätte influenced the emergence of Secession style/ national revival variants across the multinational Empire. Particular attention will be paid to three regions: Hungary, Polish Galicia and Bohemia. Focused case-study will be combined with discussion of the wider issues that gave the movements their unique vitality and complexity. These include: the relationship between the rise of nationalism, supra-nationalism and the search for cultural identity; attempts to express the modern 'spirit of the age'; and the desire to break down traditional boundaries between the fine and applied arts. In addition to Klimt, major figures examined include Wagner, Olbrich, Hoffmann, Lechner, Kós, the Gödöllo colony, Witkiewicz, Wyspianski, Lewinski, Mucha and Kotera.
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Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
Learning Outcomes
- a thorough knowledge of key works of art, architecture and design of regions of the former Habsburg Empire in the period and of the literature relating to them.
- an understanding of the political, social and artistic context of works and movements of the period.
- an understanding of the main thematic issues central to the formation of cultural and artistic identity in the regions studied.
- an ability to compare and contrast the artistic production of the different regions in a meaningful way.
- an ability to show initiative and originality in the investigation of new or little-studied material.
- an awareness of changing theoretical approaches to the art discussed, particularly in view of political developments since 1989.
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Assessment Information
| 4,000 word essay |
Special Arrangements
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Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Tamara Trodd
Tel: (0131 6)51 3120
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Course secretary | Mr Christopher Miller
Tel: 0131 221 6150
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