107-405 Landscape in the Nineteenth Century

Usually 37.5 points of art history at second/third year, see Prerequisites, including either 107-036 Nineteenth Century French Art or 107-028 A Survey of Australian Art to 1950 or admission to the postgraduate diploma or fourth year honours in art history.

This is a broadly based subject which examines the major landscape paradigms that developed in European painting with the Romantic movement. It traces their evolution and alteration in terms of form and meaning throughout the 19th century in England, Germany, France, Australia and the USA. Students should complete the subject familiar with the major theorists of landscape painting from Romanticism to Post-Impressionism; with an awareness of the significance of nationality in the development of landscape styles in the 19th century and a sensitivity to the implications of gender in landscape painting. Students should also have gained an understanding of the privileging of landscape by those involved in the formation of national art collections in Europe, Australia and the USA in the 19th century.