Module Outline (updated April 2015)
This module comprises a week to ten-day long study trip to the city of Warsaw, Poland. Students will undertake a guided programme of visits to galleries, museums, sites of architectural importance and other places and events as are available, overseen by members of staff; and will benefit from their expertise and experience in looking at art and architecture in situ. Students will also be able and expected to undertake self-directed study and research visits to sites beyond the organised programme as their own research interests dictate.
This year, we will visit Warsaw, Poland. With local guest lecturers and artists we will use the city's art, design and architecture to explore subjects from Eastern Europe's role in Modernist experimentation in the early twentieth century; to the role of art under Stalinist dictatorship and later in democratic resistance to Communism; finally we will explore contemporary art's ambiguous political place in a city entering into the globalised capitalist market.
Aims
The aims of this module are:
to provide students with a broad and comparative understanding of gender, sexuality, and identities in British nineteenth-century art;
to elucidate the role of art and architecture in the construction of global, national, regional and personal identity;
to explore issues related to some of the main developments in British art between c.1850 and c.1900;
to develop skills of visual and conceptual analysis for modern British art in relation to gender and sexuality, and the particular themes and characteristics of this study and its associated artwork;
to encourage debate about gender, sexuality and the visual arts;
to familiarise students with historical and critical texts surrounding understandings of gender, sexuality, and modes of representation across media including painting, sculpture, photography and architecture;
to encourage student awareness of diverse methodologies within the discipline of art history as applied to Victorian art, including feminist art history and queer theory;
to stimulate students to develop skills in written communication through essay and oral communication and debate in seminars.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this module the student should have:
a sound grasp of the history of Victorian art and architecture;
the ability to interpret works of art in relation to perspectives on gender, the body, and sexuality;
the confidence to subject the artworks and texts studied to critical analysis and interpretation;
the ability to communicate complex ideas concerning representation, medium-specificity, and modernity;
insight into the diverse methods of investigating gender and sexuality in relation to modernity, art history, and visual culture;
experience in textual analysis relevant to works and theoretical debates from this period;
an ability to discuss the history of Victorian art in relation to gender and sexuality and to reflect critically upon histories of identity through seminar presentations, a coursework essay of 3,000 words, and a two-hour examination.
This module comprises a week to ten-day long study trip to the city of Warsaw, Poland. Students will undertake a guided programme of visits to galleries, museums, sites of architectural importance and other places and events as are available, overseen by members of staff; and will benefit from their expertise and experience in looking at art and architecture in situ. Students will also be able and expected to undertake self-directed study and research visits to sites beyond the organised programme as their own research interests dictate.
This year, we will visit Warsaw, Poland. With local guest lecturers and artists we will use the city's art, design and architecture to explore subjects from Eastern Europe's role in Modernist experimentation in the early twentieth century; to the role of art under Stalinist dictatorship and later in democratic resistance to Communism; finally we will explore contemporary art's ambiguous political place in a city entering into the globalised capitalist market.
Aims
The aims of this module are:
to provide students with a broad and comparative understanding of gender, sexuality, and identities in British nineteenth-century art;
to elucidate the role of art and architecture in the construction of global, national, regional and personal identity;
to explore issues related to some of the main developments in British art between c.1850 and c.1900;
to develop skills of visual and conceptual analysis for modern British art in relation to gender and sexuality, and the particular themes and characteristics of this study and its associated artwork;
to encourage debate about gender, sexuality and the visual arts;
to familiarise students with historical and critical texts surrounding understandings of gender, sexuality, and modes of representation across media including painting, sculpture, photography and architecture;
to encourage student awareness of diverse methodologies within the discipline of art history as applied to Victorian art, including feminist art history and queer theory;
to stimulate students to develop skills in written communication through essay and oral communication and debate in seminars.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this module the student should have:
a sound grasp of the history of Victorian art and architecture;
the ability to interpret works of art in relation to perspectives on gender, the body, and sexuality;
the confidence to subject the artworks and texts studied to critical analysis and interpretation;
the ability to communicate complex ideas concerning representation, medium-specificity, and modernity;
insight into the diverse methods of investigating gender and sexuality in relation to modernity, art history, and visual culture;
experience in textual analysis relevant to works and theoretical debates from this period;
an ability to discuss the history of Victorian art in relation to gender and sexuality and to reflect critically upon histories of identity through seminar presentations, a coursework essay of 3,000 words, and a two-hour examination.