Gwybodaeth Modiwlau
Course Delivery
| Delivery Type | Delivery length / details |
|---|---|
| Lecture | 10 lectures |
| Seminars / Tutorials | 3 seminars |
| Workload Breakdown | Taught sessions - 10 hours Seminars - 3 hours General reading - 15 hours Research and revision for the examination - 50 hours Research and writing for the research test - 15 hours Preparation for seminars - 7 hours |
Assessment
| Assessment Type | Assessment length / details | Proportion |
|---|---|---|
| Semester Assessment | Research Test Formative assessment: 500 word written research test to offer definitions of key art historical terms. | 30% |
| Semester Exam | 2 Hours Examination One 2-hour 'seen' examination (questions to be issued one week before the examination date). | 70% |
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this module students should be able to:
Demonstrate knowledge of key issues in European art and their wider cultural and social contexts in the period 1800-1900.
Demonstrate an understanding of key concepts and theories, style labels, movements, critical texts and the historical contexts for the production of art.
Frane a response to questions and develop an argument in appropriate written material.
Demonstrate a sound knowledge of appropriate bibliographic and other research materials.
Aims
This module is Core for first year Art History students. It is designed to provide a comprehensive overview of the European visual arts between 1800 and 1900 in their social, cultural and intellectual contexts.
Brief description
This module provides a comprehensive survey of Europen art and its social and cultural contexts from 1800-1900. It explores key issues in the visual arts and material culture within their wider cultural contexts and seeks to stimulate an understanding of a range of political, social and institutional forces, such as: challenges to academic institutions and traditions, the professionalization of the artist, the rise of a middle-class art market, the growth of industrial production and new transport and communication systems, the beginnings of a modern consumer culture, the influence of the popular press and the rise of art criticism in a Europe disrupted by war, popular uprisings and nationalistic movements.
Content
Typically, lectures will cover the following topics:
- Romanticism and Visual Culture in Europe: An Overview
- British Romantic Landscapes: Turner, Constable and their Contempories
- German Romanticism: Revivals and Innovations in Painting seminar
- French Romanticism: Painting and Culture
- The Birth of Photography in mid 19th-century France and Britain
- Realism and the Representation of the Everyday seminar
- Pre-Raphaelitism: Painting, Poetry, Criticism
- Impressionism and French Painting in the 1860s and 70s
- Industrializataion, Consumerism and the Arts in Victorian Britain seminar
- Symbolism and Late Impressionism in France and Belgium
Module Skills
| Skills Type | Skills details |
|---|---|
| Application of Number | |
| Communication | Taught (lectures and seminars) and in written assignments |
| Improving own Learning and Performance | Reflecting upon the outcome of the earlier, shorter formative assessment to develop skills in the larger written assignment and through discussion in seminars. |
| Information Technology | As above (2: Research Skills) particularly in the use of museum websites to research objects and images. |
| Personal Development and Career planning | The module will highlight the importance of picture research, visual analysis and the development of professional writing skills stressing these as necessary for the development of a career as a professional art historian working in diverse areas of the discipline, such as museums, art galleries and universities. |
| Problem solving | |
| Research skills | The written assessments require effective use of library and internet facilities, in particular the use of image banks and museum websites. |
| Subject Specific Skills | Visual literacy, visual and verbal analysis. |
| Team work | Through group work for seminar readings. |
Notes
This module is at CQFW Level 4