Expand+Spring Trimester - January to May
MODE OF DELIVERY: Face-to-Face

Student Effort Hours:
Student Effort Type Hours
Specified Learning Activities 40
Autonomous Student Learning 33
Lectures 21
Tutorial 6
Total 100

Approaches to Teaching and...

Hide-Spring Trimester - January to May
MODE OF DELIVERY: Face-to-Face

Student Effort Hours:
Student Effort Type Hours
Specified Learning Activities 40
Autonomous Student Learning 33
Lectures 21
Tutorial 6
Total 100

Approaches to Teaching and Learning:
The course is taught primarily via lectures with small tutorial groups. This will give students the opportunity to look at works of art in the original on a gallery visit and to discuss ideas. Although learning supports will be available on line, students will be strongly encouraged to visit the library in person, read books, visits galleries and museums, make use of recommended texts, and contribute in class. Support material from lectures will be available on Brightspace and students are encouraged to keep a journal detailing the content of the lectures and related tasks and research.

It is incumbent on any undergraduate student who fails this module to contact the lecturer concerned to announce their attention to resit, and to obtain details of resit assignments. Any resit/ repeat registration/ fee issues should be dealt with by the Arts programme office.

Expand+AH10150 The Modern World 1848-1914
Academic Year 2022/2023

Art and the Modern World, 1848 to 1914 examines the key developments in Western art from 1848 to the outbreak of World War One in 1914. This period saw the beginnings of modern art, when ...

Hide-AH10150 The Modern World 1848-1914
Academic Year 2022/2023

Art and the Modern World, 1848 to 1914 examines the key developments in Western art from 1848 to the outbreak of World War One in 1914. This period saw the beginnings of modern art, when traditional practices of making and viewing art were challenged. Industrialisation brought rapid social changes that impacted dramatically on how the world was experienced and understood. The module concentrates on Paris, the centre of the modern art world, which saw the development of realism, impressionism, post-impressionism and cubism. Lectures also consider the impact of modernity and urbanisation on British and European art. The influence of photography, non-western art, and imperialism and colonialism are addressed. Lectures are supported by small-group tutorials.

Learning Outcomes:
Have a good understanding of the impact of urbanisation and technology on modern art.

Be able to analyse and contextualise key works of Western art produced between 1848-1914.

Recognise and account for major stylistic manifestations of modern art up to 1914.

Relate art produced between 1848-1914 to its wider social and philosophical contexts.

Indicative Module Content:
Gustave Courbet & Realism
Impressionism
The Pre-Raphaelites and the Arts and Crafts Movement
The Position of Women artists in the 19th century
Art and Homosexuality in the 19th Century
Symbolism
Expressionism
Post-Impressionism Cubism and its origins
Orientalism and Colonialism