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Unit title
European Art 1770-1840
Unit code
2
HA
2I
ECTS Credits
15
Unit weight
4
JYA Credits
6
Timing & Length
Autumn & Spring terms
Convenor
Simon Lee
None
Pre-requisites
Co-requisites
None
Excluded units
None
Assessment
2 essays & up to 3 seminar presentations
Level
Intended outcome
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The purpose of this unit is to enable students to discuss and analyse the painting and sculpture of the period in terms of aesthetic and political content, and to acquire the skills to interpret art works as significant indicators of change in society. This is to be achieved through a comprehensive grounding in the socio-political framework, by detailed examination of the oeuvre of selected artists, and bt consideration of how issues such as class, gender, national identity, and the perception of nature were given visual resonance and expression.
Content
This unit, which runs for two terms, gives prominence to English and French art of this period. Artists covered include Reynolds, Gainsborough, David, canova, Drouais, Girodet, Prud'hon, Ingres, Delacroix, Goya, Constable and Turner. The period was a time of unprecedented change and upheaval in Europe, and students are recommended to have a firm grasp of the historical events so that the relationship between art and society can be explored; how do you depict a revolution when you have never seen or experienced a revolution before? Neo-classicism and Romanticism are the two style labels applied to this period, but these are only a short-hand method of categorising changes in visual ideology that were actually very complex.
Date last published Aug 18, 2000