Duration
30h Th
Number of credits
| Bachelor in history of art and archaeology : general | 5 crédits | |||
| Bachelor in history of art and archaeology : musicology | 5 crédits |
Lecturer
Language(s) of instruction
French language
Organisation and examination
Teaching in the first semester, review in January
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents
View on the arts of the hunter-gatherers around the world. Their general structures will be presented. These arts correspond to mythological functions; they are dominated by the natural world, incarnated by wild animals. The structure of their agencies ("semiotic") reveals their organisation, in response to rigourous and stable rules in which aesthetics intervenes as much as recounting of myths.
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
The course consists of a panoramic presentation of these different expressions, then propose a series of methodological approaches permitting to interpret them in coherent and logical terms. Nothing, in fact, is random in Palaeolithic art, where style, schools and phases can be distinguished.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
None.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning)
Duration and period: 30 hours, 1st term.
Classroom and schedule: Auditorium A4/S100 (bât. A4), Monday, 4-6 pm.
Recommended or required readings
Reference book: Marcel OTTE, Arts préhistoriques. L'articulation du langage, Bruxelles, De Boeck (coll. « Université »), 2006.
A bibliography of the major reference works is distributed at the beginning of the year.
Assessment methods and criteria
In January.
Work placement(s)
Organizational remarks
Contacts
Professor
Pierre NOIRET
Département des Sciences historiques
Service de Préhistoire, 7 place du 20-Août bât A1, B-4000 Liège
Tél.: 04.366.58.39
E-mail: pnoiret@ulg.ac.be