English for Art Historians

О.В. Алаева







                English for Art Historians







Рекомендовано Учебно-методическим центром «Профессиональный учебник» в качестве учебного пособия для студентов, обучающихся по специальностям культуры и искусства (050000)















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Москва • 2017

УДК 811.111(075.8)
ББК 81.2Рус-923
     А45



Рецензенты: кандидат филологических наук, профессор ЛА. Халилова; кандидат филологических наук, доцент Е.А. Занина


Главный редактор издательства кандидат юридических наук, доктор экономических наук Н.Д. Эриашвили



      Алаева, Ольга Владимировна.
А45 English for Art Historians: учеб. пособие для студентов, обучающихся по специальностям культуры и искусства (050000) / О.В. Алаева. - М.: ЮНИТИ-ДАНА, 2017. - 240 с. - (Серия «Special English for Universities and Colleges»).


      ISBN 5-238-00938-0
      Агентство CIP РГБ

         Цель пособия — совершенствование и систематизация знаний и умений студентов и учащихся; обогащение их словарного запаса в пределах предлагаемой тематики; формирование навыков правильного понимания, перевода и реферирования оригинальных текстов по специальности, а также дальнейшее развитие разговорных навыков.
         Пособие состоит из семи разделов, включающих тексты по следующим тематикам: «Моя специальность», «Живопись», «Прикладное искусство», «Портретистика», «Выставки и музеи», «Культурные различия» и «Архитектура». Речевой материал текстов отражает богатство современного английского языка, представляет специальные языковые, речевые выражения, обороты, термины профессиональной речи.
         Для студентов старших курсов гуманитарных специальностей — искусствоведов, культурологов и музеологов, а также широкого круга читателей, интересующихся изобразительным искусством и историей живописи.

ББК 81.2Рус-923

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   Настоящее учебное пособие предназначено для студентов старших курсов гуманитарных специальностей — искусствоведов, культурологов и музеологов, а также может использоваться широким кругом читателей, интересующихся изобразительным искусством и историей живописи.
   Данное пособие рассчитано на тех, кто уже имеет базовую начальную подготовку по английскому языку: знает фонологическую систему, знаком с основными грамматическими категориями, владеет определенным объемом лексических единиц и речевыми моделями, которые позволяют вести общение в ситуациях социальнобытовой сферы.
   Целью пособия является совершенствование и систематизация знаний и умений студентов и учащихся; обогащение их словарного запаса в пределах предлагаемой тематики; формирование навыков правильного понимания, перевода и реферирования оригинальных текстов по специальности, а также дальнейшее развитие разговорных навыков.
   В пособии представлены оригинальные тексты аутентичного характера, взятые из современных учебников, газет, журналов, музейных каталогов и Интернет-источников. Пособие состоит из семи разделов, включающих тексты по следующим тематикам: моя специальность, живопись, прикладное искусство, портретистка, выставки, музеи, культурные различия и архитектура. Речевой материал текстов отражает богатство современного английского языка, представляет специальные языковые, речевые выражения, обороты, термины профессиональной речи.
   Каждый раздел пособия включает тексты и упражнения к ним, направленные на развитие навыков устной и письменной речи: лексические, лексико-грамматические и речевые, которые позволяют проверить как общее понимание прочитанного, так и закрепить только что приобретенные лексические навыки. Система упражнений к

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текстам способствует активному усвоению профессиональной лексики и повторению некоторых аспектов грамматики. Заключительным этапом являются задания условно-коммуникативного или коммуникативного характера. Для облегчения работы с пособием прилагается словарь.
   В конце каждой темы студентам предлагается подготовить расширенные доклады с привлечением дополнительной информации, что, с одной стороны, стимулирует научный поиск, а с другой — формирует у студентов навыки общения с аудиторией и ведения дискуссии на английском языке.
   Автор выражает благодарность А.Ю. Квактун за помощь в подборе материала.

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UNIT I





                My speciality




            Text 1



Exercise 1. Read the text. Name the parts of the text.


А. The history and program of the Department
В. Modern History Faculty, University of Oxford С. The Centre for Visual Studies
D. Department Life



            Art History and Visual Studies in Oxford


1.________________


    Under Professor Martin Kemp and with the appointment of two lecturers, Dr Geraldine Johnson and Dr Marius Kwint, the Department of the History of Art has been forging an innovative approach to

visual studies under the umbrella of the Modern History Faculty at the University of Oxford. The Centre for Visual Studies was founded in 1999 as a vehicle for research and advanced work in a wide range of fields. The established strengths of the discipline of art history in formal, icono-graphic and contextualanalysis are being linked in the Department to a rigorous approach to questions of theory and method.

The subjects of visual history are being redefined on a broad base to include a much wider range of artifacts and visual media. Images and objects produced in many contexts — ranging from the scientific to the popular — are being brought together to show how visual styles at different times and in different places can be understood in relation to the aesthetic, intellectual and social facets of various cultures.


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    As a small Department and Centre, we can offer the advantages of intimacy, while in the broader setting of a world-class University, we have established links with international scholars working on many different aspects of the visual in history. The program is supported by the major collections in Oxford, including the Ashmolean Museum, the Bodleian Library, the Pitt-Rivers Museum, the Museum of the History of Science, and Modern Art Oxford, as well as by the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art. In addition, the city of Oxford, which includes important examples of architecture and landscape design, is also within easy reach of London with all its resources, not least the National Art Library.
    The Department is currently in a period of vigorous development, and prospective undergraduate and postgraduate students are encouraged to contact the Department for the latest information and advice about courses and degrees.
    Within the University and more generally in Oxford, there are a series of organizations with connections to the study of the Visual Arts. They include:
    The Ruskin School. One of the leading schools of art and ideally placed in the University to forge a unique curriculum. Collaboration is envisaged on post-graduate courses for artists who wish to forge a new kind of alliance between practice and visual analysis, particularly in relation to the innovatory Lab in the School.
    The Ashmolean Museum. The internationally-renowned collections of Western Fine and Applied Arts and arts of other ancient and more modern civilizations provide excellent resources for studies of world visual heritages.

2.______________________

    During term-time, staff, students and scholars from throughout the University and beyond attend the Departmental Seminar in the History of Art and the Art History Research Seminar, which is cosponsored by the Department with the Ashmolean Museum and Oxford Brookes University. These seminars are ambitious, eclectic and highly popular, and it is customary to continue discussions afterwards in less formal surroundings.
    Various receptions and social evenings are also organized through the Department, and we ensure that our students have the opportunity to meet art historians from other institutions as well as elsewhere within the University.


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    In keeping with its interdisciplinary ethos, the Department also acts as a more general forum for the study of visual culture within the University, especially through the Centre for Visual Studies. We play host as well each year to the Slade Professor of Fine Art, who is always a figure of international standing in the study of the visual arts.

3.__________________________________________

    The Centre, which is identical in its facilities and staff with the Department of the History of Art, provides the umbrella under which teaching (especially at postgraduate level) and research are conducted on a far wider range of visual material that is normally embraced by the Art History. 'Visual Studies' is potentially concerned with the visual analysis of anything that has been produced as a result of human artifice, ranging from a stained glass window to the latest computer graphics. We know, as much by instinct as analysis, that a sixteenth-century book 'looks' different from a nineteenth-century one, that a nineteenth-century microscope has a visual 'air' that is different from a 1960s example, that a pioneering product of computer-aided design has a different visual 'feel' from today's state-of-the-art image — just as a drawing by Raphael differs from a sketch by Picasso, or a Japanese dish from the 16th century assumes a visual appearance that is distinguishable from a Chinese one of the same period.
    Various techniques developed by the discipline of Art History have done much to explain why a work of art has assumed its particular visual characteristics, and how it has been seen in different ways over the ages. To restrict these techniques for understanding visual products only to what we call 'Art' is to ignore many exciting possibilities. Indeed, our very concept of 'Art' is relatively recent and cannot be applied safely to artefacts from other cultures. And objects that apparently lie outside even an expansive definition of'Art' can be subjected to visual analysis in such a way as to open important doors to the understanding of their origins, reception, place in society, and subsequent history.
    The mission of the Centre for Visual Studies, which was founded in 1999, is to use, extend and develop existing modes of visual analysis and to forge innovative tools for the understanding of visual cultures in their wholes and parts.

4._______________________________

    Most of the experience of humanity is contained in the past. Medieval and modern history has been studied at Oxford for longer than at

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almost any other university: a Regius Professor of Modern History was first appointed in 1724, and undergraduate examinations began in 1850.

    Today the University is one of the world's most encompassing centres for the study of history. The faculty has about a hundred permanent teaching staff, nearly twelve hundred undergraduates, and almost five hundred graduate students attracted from many countries. Historians also abound

in other departments. At their service is the Bodleian library and its ancillaries, which count among the greatest of research collections.
    They work and live in forty-five college communities, in buildings ranging from honey-coloured medieval quads, to the most controversial of post-modernist architecture, all set within the lively, thriving, and beautiful city of Oxford.


Vocabulary

Exercise 2. Match words with definitions:

1  forge                     a. in many areas, spheres           
2  innovative                b. strict, thorough, careful        
3  under the umbrella        c. think over again                 
4  in a wide range of fields d. develop, move forward            
5  rigorous                  e. new, original, advanced          
6  redefined                 f. give smth protection             
7  artifact                  g. newspapers, magazines as a       
                                group                            
8  media                     h. collect                          
9  contexts                  i. surrounding                      
10 bring together            j. organize, start                  
11 facet                     k. an object that was made a long   
                                time ago & is historically im-   
                                portant                          
12 setting                   l. general situations, which help to
                                explain smth                     

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establish            m. connections, relationships be-  
                           tween people                    
14 links                n. things that help to achieve smth
                           in your study                   
15 be within easy reach o. who is studying for a 1st degree
                           at a university                 
16 resources            p. who is studying after receiving 
                           the 1st University degree       
17 undergraduate        q. to be near, close               
18 postgraduate         r. aspect                          

Exercise 3. What types of analysis are used in the studying of art history? In the text find words denoting the types of analyzes:

1 to analyze the ideas of a social and religious group represented in pictures
2 to analyze following the correct or suitable official methods
3 to analyze considering an idea, event or activity together with everything relating to it or in a particular situation which helps to understand it better

Exercise 4. What facets of the culture are mentioned in the text? Match words with definitions
aesthetic        intellectual           social
1 the nature of beauty, the principles of beauty, especially in art
2 people’s life and society in general, people’s activities and behaviors
3 the ideas and ways of thinking of intelligent people in a society

Exercise 5. Answer the questions
1  What approach to the studying of the History of Art has been forging in the Department?
2  What analyses are used in teaching of the History of Art?
3  How are the artifacts produced to the students in the course of studying the History ofArt?
4  WhatdoestheHistoryofArtstudy?

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Exercise 6. Paraphrase the underlined phrases
1  The Art History Research Seminars are ambitious, eclectic and highly popular.
2  The Department of the History of Art exists under the umbrella of the Modern History Faculty.
3  The Centre for Visual Studies was founded as a vehicle for research and advanced work.
4  In the Department and Centre they can offer the advantages of intimacy.
5  Oxford with all its resources is within easy reach of London.
6  A nineteenth-century microscope has a visual “air” that is different from a 1960s example.

Exercise 7. Answer the questions.
1  What Faculty does the Department of the History of Art belong to?
2  What are the functions of a newly founded Centre for Visual Studies?
3  How are images and objects produced in the course of teaching?


Exercise 8. What is the Department life like? What forms of teaching are used in the University? In the text find words for the following definitions:
1........... is a class at the University in which a small group of
students discuss a subject with a teacher.
2                       isatalkto a group of students about a particular subject.
3                       isa formal party to welcome some prominent figure.
4                       isan occasion when students gather to discuss things.
5                       isthe time students spend to enjoy themselves with friends.


Exercise 9. Match words with definitions

1 staff       a. setting                                      
2 beyond      b. want to achieve & to be rich and famous      
3 ambitious   c. the set of attitudes and beliefs that typical
                 of the university                            
4 eclectic    d. people work in a particular company, in-     
                 stitution                                    
5 surrounding e. outside                                      
6 ensure      f. an organized event where people meet to      
                 discuss smth                                 

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