Preliminary Course Plan and Reading List 2020 Art in Course Code: HF1143 Course Leader: Lin Stafne-Pfisterer

Course Lecturer: Siv Hofsvang

This course plan and reading list are subject to changes.

Date Time Topic Lecturer Readings/Curriculum

Week 1

Introduction and Visual Overview of Art in Norway - Overview of the course, Kent, Neil. “Introduction”, The Soul readings, excursions, and other. Lin Stafne- of the North: A Social, Architectural June Introduction to digital platforms, Pfisterer Synchron and Cultural History of the Nordic 22 workflow, Q&A Countries, 1700-1940. London: Siv Hofsvang Reaktion Books, 2000. 8 – 15 Canvas, Zoom Breakout room test, Kahoot + Q&A Monica Grini: Historiographical What is Art? Culture and reflections on Sámi art and the Lin Stafne- Tradition from Saami to Munch. paradigm of the national in June Pfisterer Synchron history (article) 23 Break out rooms – group Art history and theory in context. Siv Hofsvang presentations Pictorial analysis, elaborating on open questions

Medieval Art from Viking Ships Synchron if Lin Stafne- to Stave Churches – Live June possible Pfisterer Excursion where we go to 24 (recorded Bygdøy to the Viking Ship video) Siv Hofsvang Museum + Folk Museum

Medieval Art and Architecture Romanesque, Gothic and Renaissance in monumental Lin Stafne- Write an analysis of one Artwork or June works such as Trondheim Asynchron Pfisterer Historical building. (Individually or 25 Cathedral, Haakon’s Hall and in cooperation 2-3) .

Break out rooms Museum of Cultural history June Akershus fortress Asynchron Siv Hofsvang Kahoot 26 Break out rooms

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Week 2

Late middle ages to age of Blindheim (p.17) Grodecki (p.167) enlightenment Hegard (p.253) Renaissance, reformation and Lin Stafne- June Kent (p. 265) Synchron baroque, pictorial art and Pfisterer 29 historical events Viking age/ medieval times – critical reading and comparing Break out rooms articles

Dahl, Fearnley, Balke, Tidemand Lin Stafne- and Gude June Oscarshall (1852) - the Summer Asynchron Pfisterer 30 Palace built for Oscar II Messel (p.203) Gunnarsson (p.99 + p.137)

Mai Britt Guleng - Lorentz Investigating folk art 19th century Dietrichson and the making of Looking at the formation of Lin Stafne- Norwegian art history July national identity through art Asynchron Pfisterer 01 historical lenses Describe what you see when you

look out of your window Break out rooms

What is nature to you?

Krohg, Backer, Kielland, Glambek (p. 59) Sohlberg and Munch Lin Stafne- July Stavenow-Heidemark (p. 275) Synchron National Museum Pfisterer 02

Break out rooms Quiz: 19th century

Werenskiold (p.341) Wichstrøm (p.361) Norwegian Art in the 1880s and Romantisicm and Realism 1890s.The Skagen Colony, The Lin Stafne- July Fleskum Summers; The Lysaker Pfisterer Krohg, Werenskiold 03 Asynchron Circle and the Kristiania Boheme Individual paper – analyse and compare two of the given paintings through image content, artistic technique and context.

Week 3

Messel (p.185) Lin Stafne- July Berman (p.1) Asynchron Edvard Munch Pfisterer 06 Bjerke (p.317)

Woll (p.377)

Edvard Munch in the Munch Lin Stafne- July Museum Synchron Pfisterer Munch Kahoot 07

Break out rooms

Lin Stafne- July Synchron -Isms and not. Sum-up of the Pfisterer Individual paper deadline 08 arts of the 19th century

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Q & A on text - technically and theoretically through examples.

Share and comment each other’s drafts

July 09 Long weekend July 10 Week 4

Museum and artist home, the July Synchron Vigeland museum and park Siv Hofsvang Jubilee exhibition and the sculpture 13 park Around 1900 – what is Lin Stafne- July Modernism? Start work with this week’s group Asynchron Pfisterer 14 presentations

Break out rooms Villa Stenersen - Modernism – July Asynchron Scandinavian Art and design in Siv Hofsvang 15 the 1930s July Asynchron cityhall Siv Hofsvang Werenskiold (p.329) 16

Gunnarson (p. 91) Lin Stafne- July Hellandsjo (p.179) Synchron Midcentury Modernism Pfisterer 17 Groups 1-5: Pecha kucha presentations to the class

Week 5 Synchron if Lin Stafne- July possible Modernism: Kubism, Abstract Art, Ryggen og Krohg på Blindern Pfisterer 20 (recorded Material Works etc.

video) July Kunstnernes Hus Asynchron Siv Hofsvang 21 Ekebergparken Marit Paasche: Lives and July Synchron Contemporary Art in Norway Siv Hofsvang videotapes: the inconsistent history 22 of Norwegian video art

Astrup Fearnley Museum July Synchron Norwegian art scene and Siv Hofsvang 23 international context

Contemporary crafts/material July Artists: Hanne Friis, Aurora Asynchron turn Siv Hofsvang 24 Passero, John K. Raustein Material vs conceptual

Week 6

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What is Art today? July Art in public space Synchron Siv Hofsvang How to see? Experience? 27 Break out rooms

From: Viktor Lind «dette er et fint Synchron if sted» to Ahmad Ghossein: July possible City walk to experience art in Siv Hofsvang «RELOCATING THE PAST: 28 (recorded public space RUINS FOR THE FUTURE» video) Long walk

Lin Stafne- July Class study day: class review Pfisterer Information and Q & A for final Synchron 29 and seminar paper (references etc.) Siv Hofsvang July Asynchron Writing day – self study - 30 July Final Exam - 31

Reading List Students will have access to articles when they have a UiO username and password.

 Berman, Patricia G. “Body and Body Politic in Edvard Munch’s ‘Bathing Men,’ “ in: Marcia Pointon and Kathleen Adler, eds., The Body Imaged: The Human Form and Visual Culture Since the Renaissance (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993), 71-83 and 195.  Blindheim, Martin. “Scandinavian Art and Its Relations to European Art around 1200,” in: The Year 1200: A Symposium, exh. cat., (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1975), 429-467.  Ekroll, Øystein. “The Building History of Nidaros Cathedral 1030-1537”, 10p https://www.academia.edu/40041019/The_Building_History_of_Nidaros_Cathedral_103 0-1537

 Glambek, Ingeborg. "One of the Age's Noblest Cultural Movements: On the Theoretical Basis for the Arts and Crafts Movement," Scandinavian Journal of Design History. 1, 1991. 47-76.  Grini, Monica. “Historiographical reflections on sámi art and the paradigm of the national in norwegian art history”, in: Charis Gullickson and Sandra Lorentzen (eds.), Sámi Stories: Art and Identity of an Arctic People, Stamsund: Orkana forlag, 2014, pp. 49 – 67, https://munin.uit.no/bitstream/handle/10037/6646/article.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y

 Gunnarson, Ingebjørg. "Tendenser i norsk etterkrigsgrafik" in: Adun Eckhoff (ed.), Fokus 1950 - (Engl.trans.) Oslo: Sprartacus Forlag AS, 1998. 99-104.  Gunnarsson, Torsten. “The Northern Wilderness” Nordic Landscape Painting in the Nineteenth Century, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998. 79-114.  Gunnarsson, Torsten. “Introduction”, A Mirror of Nature – Nordic Landscape Painting 1840-1910), København: Statens Museum for Kunst, 2006. 10-37.

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 Grodecki, Louis. “Introduction,” in: Norway: Paintings from the Stave Churches. NY: UNESCO Publishing, 1955), 17-25.  Hegard, Tonte. “Collecting, Researching, and Presenting Folk Art in Norway, in Nelson, Marion Ed. Norwegian Folk Art - The Migration of a Tradition. Abbevile, 1995. 238-247.  Hellandsjø, Karin. "Modernismen i Europa og Norge 1945-55. Gjensyn og tilbakeblikk" in: Adun Eckhoff (ed.), Fokus 1950 -(Engl.trans.), 111 – 114.  Jaukkuri, Maaretta, Intro (3 p) and Aslaug Vaa (8p) Artscape Nordland (Skulpturlandskap Nordland), Forlaget Press/Nordland Fylkeskommune, 1999 https://www.nb.no/items/URN:NBN:no-nb_digibok_2007070304072  Kent, Neil. “Introduction”, The Soul of the North: A Social, Architectural and Cultural History of the Nordic Countries, 1700-1940. London: Reaktion Books. 2000. 8–15.  Messel, Nils. ”Edvard Munch and his Critics in the 1880s,” in: Kunst og Kultur 77:4 (1994). 213-227.  Messel, Nils. “Discovering the Mountains” in Oppdagelsen av Fjellet, Oslo: Nasjonalmuseet for Kunst, Arkitektur og Design, 2008. 101-147.  Pooke, Grant and Newall, Diana, “Art History: The Basics”, Routledge, New York 2008, 1-32, https://doi-org.ezproxy.uio.no/10.4324/9780203098806  Stavenow-Hidemark, Elisabet. “Viking Revival and Art Nouveau. Traditions of Excellence”, I (Red) McFadden, David Revere, Scandinavian Modern Design, 1880- 1980. Abrams, 1982. 47-86.  Storm-Bjerke, Øyvind. "Scream as part of the Art Historical canon", in Scream, 2008. 13- 55.  Werenskiold, Marit. “Concepts of Expressionism in Scandinavia”, in: Expressionism Reassessed Shulamith Behr, et.al. eds., Manchester: Manchester Univeristy Press, 1993. 20-29.  Werenskiold, Marit. "Erik Werenskiold in 1875-1881,” Konsthistorisk Tidsskrift 68 :2 (1999). 81-98.  Wichstrøm, Anne: "Gendered Representation: Asta Nørregaard's Upper-Class Portraiture 1890-1905," Konsthistorisk Tidskrift 69:1 (2000).  Woll, Gerd. Introduction, in: Edvard Munch: Prints from 1896, London 2001. Pg. 19-28.

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