Semester in Bath, Spring 2004
Art History 193A:
Course
Description:
British art did not enjoy the same status
as European art during the 18th century, by the middle of the 19th
century Britain had almost ceased in copying European styles and new collectors
and galleries embraced the culture from these shores. By the 20th
century British art was taking its place as one of the most influential
artistic countries in the Western world.
Assignments: Two marked essays and 4 class room presentations
individually or in small groups.
Class Schedule:
February
4th Introduction to British Art History and
the Course. Overview of 18th century British Art. William Hogarth
and Francis Hayman.
February 11th "The Establishment", Joshua Reynolds and
Thomas Gainsborough. The important art of portraiture. Preparation for
classroom presentation.
February 18th The art of the stable: George Morland and George
Stubbs. Classroom presentation in pairs.
February 25th Landscape and the picturesque movement. The most
English of English art: watercolour and William Blake.
March 3rd Introduction to the nineteenth century. Sir David Wilkie
and the rise of genre painting. Essay 1 due.
March 10th John Constable, J.M.W. Turner and post-romantic landscape
painting. Individual presentation.
March 17th Victorian Narrative painting. William Mulready, Edwin
Landseer and William Powell Frith.
March
24th The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and Revival of Classicism, Lord
Leighton and Albert Moore. Presentation.
March 31st Spring Break - no class
April 7th John Ruskin versus Whistler and the Aesthetic Movement.
Art for Arts Sake. Presentation in the form of classroom debate.
April 14th "ISMs": Realism, Modernism, Abstraction,
Futurism, Surrealism, Cubism, and Vorticism
April 21st 200 years of British Architecture Amy Frost, Lecturer
April 28th Post War Pop. Richard Hamilton, Peter Blake and David Hockney.
Overview of the course. Essay 2 due.
Recommended Texts:
William Gaunt, English
Painting: A Concise History, Thames and Hudson
William Vaughan, British Painting: The Golden
Age, Thames & Hudson
Michael Levey, Rococo to Revolution: Major
trends in eighteenth-century painting, Thames & Hudson
R. Furneaux Jordon, Western Architecture,
Thames & Hudson
David Piper, The English Face, NPG, 1978.
E.H. Gombrich, The Story of Art, Phaidon
Press
Hugh Honour and John Fleming, A World History
of Art, Laurence King Publishing
Joseph Burke, English Art 1714-1800,
Oxford History of English Art.