ARHT2618 - French Art, Salon to Post-Impressionism

Semester 1, 2012  |  Credit Points: 6

Coordinator: Roger Harold Benjamin
Phone: +61 2 9351 3599
Email: roger.benjamin@sydney.edu.au

Description

This course treats a familiar area of French Art in terms of the cultural structures that allowed academic art, Realism, Impressionism, and Post-Impressionism to emerge. Mainstream art will be studied alongside emerging avant-garde spaces. The language of art criticism will provide a key to the politics of the painted surface and ethics of the female nude. Other topics for study will include nationalism, exoticism, and peripheral as opposed to metropolitan modernism.

Assessments

1x2500wd essay (60%), 1x1500wd written exercise (30%), participation (10%)

Classes

1x2-hr lecture/week,
1x1-hr tutorial/week

Prerequisites

ARHT1001 and ARHT1002

Prohibitions

ARHT2018

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