Rennie Mackintosh: Art and Design

Pre-requisites for enrolment

No previous knowledge required.

Content of Course

1. Introduction: Mackintosh’s biography. Scottish architecture in context: Scotch Baronial architecture.

2. Apprenticeship and early architectural competitions, and Art and Crafts.

3. Tea room designs, furniture.

4. ‘Glasgow Four’, Art Nouveau and origins of the Glasgow style, symbolism and Celtic revival.

5. Exhibitions at Vienna, Turin, Darmstadt - painting and architecture in Europe c.1900.

6. Architecture in Glasgow – Glasgow School of Art, Hillhouse and other major works in Scotland.

7. Willow Tea Room / Glasgow School of Art / Hunterian Art Gallery / Queens Cross Church.

8. Watercolours: flower painting, textile designs.

9. Later architecture: Northampton and Chelsea.

10. Late works and landscape drawings in France, Mackintosh legacy.

Teaching method(s)

Lectures, question and answer sessions and a site visit

Learning outcomes

By the end of this course, students should be able to:

• Recognize the architecture and art of Mackintosh;

• Place the work of Mackintosh in the context of contemporary architectural and art styles, c.1900;

• Assess critically a wide range of visual and written sources.

Sources

Core Readings

Essential:

• Crawford, Alan, 1994. C.R. Mackintosh: the Chelsea years 1915-1923. Glasgow: Hunterian Art Gallery.

• Pevsner, Nikolaus, 1960. Pioneers of modern design: from William Morris to Walter Gropius. rev. ed.

Recommended:

• Buchanan, William, 1989. Mackintosh’s masterwork: the Glasgow School of Art. Glasgow: Richard Drew.

• Cooper, Jackie, ed., 1978. Mackintosh architecture: the complete buildings and selected projects. London: Academy Editions.

• Howarth, Thomas, 1977. Charles Rennie Macintosh and the Modern Movement. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.

• Neat, Timothy, 1993. Part seen, part imagined: meaning and symbolism in the work of Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Margaret Macdonald. Edinburgh: Canongate.

Web Sources

http://www.scottisharchitects.org.uk/architect_full.php?id=200362

Dictionary of Scottish Architects link for CRM

http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/Mackintosh

Mackintosh Collection at Hunterian Art Gallery, University of Glasgow

Class Handouts

Lecture notes will be supplied.

Queries

If you have questions regarding the course or enrolment, please contact COL Reception at Paterson's Land by email COL@ed.ac.uk or by phone 0131 650 4400.

Student support

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