All of them direct students toward the specific consideration of the relationship between art and power in societies. Students take one out of several options on offer during the academic year. These options are designed to provide students with smaller group teaching. All open up questions relating to the original function of sites, monuments and objects now enshrined within categories such as 'art' or 'heritage'. Students will be encouraged to consider not only historical origins, but also the contexts within which objects are 'aestheticised'.
Students take one out of several options on offer during the academic year.
It also offers a choice of more detailed case studies in the techniques of particular artists or groups, and in the methods and ethics of conservation. It enables students to define and execute a short project. The course will consist of a series of ten lectures, run over the autumn and spring terms, introducing the basic chemistry, physics and materials science which HAMS students will require to benefit fully from their second year HAMS courses. One class will be timetabled Mondays, 10.00-12.00. The course offers the chance to study London's wealth of Renaissance art objects at first hand.