AH4218
The Art of Iran, 600 B.C. to 1700 A.D.
2019-2020
30
15
SCQF level 10
2
Academic year(s): 2019-2020
SCOTCAT credits : 30
ECTS credits : 15
Level : SCQF level 10
Semester: 2
Availability restrictions: Available to Art History single and joint Honours students
Planned timetable:
The thread that runs through this entire module is that Iran has produced over the millennia one of the world's great civilisations, with a distinctive character of its own, a fact generally ignored by scholars and non-scholars alike. So the art of Iran tends to be studied as a sub-set of, say, antique or Islamic art. This approach obscures the abiding continuities of Iranian art, its originality and the way that it has transformed what it has received from the world beyond its borders. The module investigates how Iran¿s geographical position, straddling the area between East and West Asia, with links to the world of the Inner Asian steppe to the north and the Indo-Pakistan sub-continent to the south, has determined both the ideas that it has received and, reciprocally, those that it has transmitted across Eurasia, from Greece in the west to China and Japan in the east, from c.600 BC to1500 AD. The course covers architecture, sculpture, pottery, metalwork and book painting.
Pre-requisite(s): Entry to the Art History Honours Programme
Weekly contact: 2 hour lectures (11 weeks), 1 hour seminar (11 weeks)
Scheduled learning hours: 33
Guided independent study hours: 280
As used by St Andrews: Coursework = 100%
As defined by QAA
Written examinations : 0%
Practical examinations : 0%
Coursework: 100%
Re-assessment: Coursework = 100% (1 x Written assignment to be agreed by the Board of Examiners)
Module coordinator: Professor R Hillenbrand
Module teaching staff: Prof Robert Hillenbrand
Module coordinator email rh52@st-andrews.ac.uk