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 107-035 Issues in Nineteenth-Century Art Patronage

Availability

2nd and 3rd year

Credit Points

12.5

Coordinator

Ms Alison Inglis

Prerequisites

Usually 12.5 points of first year Art History

see Prerequisites

Semester

Not Offered (view timetable)

Contact

A 1-hour lecture and a 1.5-hour seminar per week

Subject Description

This subject will examine the collecting and patronage of art in Europe and Australia during the 19th century. Historical sources and a range of critical methodologies will be used to investigate collecting and patronage in terms of its social, historical and theoretical contexts. Issues to be examined include institutional structures (museums, exhibitions, artists, groups, art unions, etc.); private patronage; the development of the commercial market; the role of nationalism, location, gender and class in determining patterns of collecting

Assessment

Written work totalling 4000 words.

Prescribed Texts

A subject reader will be available

  • F Haskell, Rediscoveries in Art: Some Aspects of Taste, Fashion and Collecting in England and France. Cornell University Press 1976.


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