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111-103 Brave New Worlds: Modernity and the Visual Arts, 1850-1918

Note: No student may receive credit for both this subject and 111-103 Modern and Postmodern Visual Art, Part A: The Development of Modernism or 111-103 Modernism in the Visual Arts, 1850-1918

Credit points: 12.5 1st year

Coordinator: Mr. Chris McAuliffe.

Contact: Three hours of lectures and tutorials a week.

Timetable: First semester

Objectives:

In addition to the above, students completing this subject should:

• be aware of critical and theoretical issues current in the study of Modernist art in the period 1850-1918.

Content:

This subject will examine the impact of modernity (industrialisation, urbanism, social and political change) on concepts of identity, reality and the role of art. Key themes will be the body, gender, nationalism, utopianism and the avant-garde.

Assessment:

Exercises and/or essays and/or visual test totalling not more than 4,000 words.

Prescribed texts:

• Clark T J The Painting of Modern Life: Paris in the Art of Manet and his Followers Princeton U. P. 1984. Frascina, F. et. al. , Modernity and Modernism
• French painting in the nineteenth century, Yale U. P. , New Haven, 1993. Harrison, C. & Wood, P. (eds), Art in Theory 1900-1990, Blackwell, Oxford, 1992. Harrison, C et. al. , Primitivism, Cubism, Abstraction: The early twentieth century, Yale U. P. , New Haven, 1993

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Handbook 1996 : Faculty of Arts (Volume 3 page 70)

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