Postgraduate Course: The Celtic Question : Art in early Britain and Ireland (HIAR11043)
Course Outline
| School | Edinburgh College of Art |
College | College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Year 3 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Available to all students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | This course explores the art and spirituality of Britain and Ireland from the time before the Romans until the arrival and eventual occupation by the Vikings. |
| Course description |
You will study a wide range of media including illuminated manuscripts (such as the Lindisfarne Gospels, Celtic Psalter and Book of Kells), metalwork (liturgical objects, reliquaries, jewellery and armour) and stone sculpture (Northumbrian and Irish high crosses as well as Pictish cross-slabs and standing stones). We will visit a number of nearby collections of Pictish and Anglo-Saxon monuments, metalwork and manuscripts, discussing display strategies and conservation issues as well as the objects forms, materials and meaning. More specifically, the course focuses on the role of sight and perception in pre-Christian and Christian culture, where both saints and heroes were frequently described as gifted with special vision.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | None |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
| High Demand Course? |
Yes |
Course Delivery Information
| Not being delivered |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- analyse insular objects in terms of their historical and art historical contexts. Students will also be expected to consider the various questions and issues of this field of study, especially the nineteenth and twentieth-century debates concerning the term "Celtic".
- illustrate the extent to which immigration and conversion impacted the beliefs and artistic practices of the various Insular cultures and peoples.
- assess the impact of the physical environs and landscape upon our perception and experience of monumental works.
- appraise different responses to the controversial question of diplay and to what extent these objects should be restored and/or conserved.
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Not entered |
| Additional Class Delivery Information |
Location will be confirmed in Handbook |
| Keywords | Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Ms Hope Doherty-Harrison
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Course secretary | Miss Hannah Morrison
Tel: (0131 6)51 5763
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