Week Three Art History. Art history seeks to place works of art in context, both within the chronological and stylistic story of art and within the biography of the individual artists. Week Four Sociology. John Berger created something of a storm by interpreting treasured works of art as sociological texts which revealed entrenched societal attitudes about property, class and wealth. Week Five Semiotics.
Semiology interprets texts as a system of signs or symbols.
We will explore this approach through the work of Roland Barthes and his application of semiotics to a wide variety of texts. We will particularly examine the Renault 19 television commercials. Media Forms Week Six Fine Art. We begin Part Two with an examination of drawing, print-making and painting, using EH Gombrich's work on how fine art seeks to create the illusion of reality. Week Seven Photography.