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ARHT2618: French Art, Salon to Cezanne
2024 unit information
This unit treats French Art in terms of the cultural structures that allowed academic art, Realism, Impressionism and Post-Impressionism to emerge. Mainstream art is studied alongside emerging avant-gardes. Other topics include nationalism, exoticism, and peripheral versus metropolitan modernism.
Unit details and rules
Managing faculty or University school:
Arts and Social Sciences
| Study level | Undergraduate |
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| Academic unit | Art History |
| Credit points | 6 |
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Prerequisites:
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12 credit points at 1000 level in Art History or 12 credit points at 1000 level in Critical Studies |
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Corequisites:
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None |
| Prohibitions:
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ARHT2018 |
| Assumed knowledge:
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None |
At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. To provide students with a solid understanding of the history of art produced in France between 1850–1900.
- LO2. To introduce students to the key art historical skill of visual analysis through the interpretation of art.
- LO3. To develop students’ verbal and written skills to interpret art in its historical and cultural context.
- LO4. To engage students with current debates about the canon of French art from the Salon to the Post-Impressionism of Cézanne.
- LO5. To provide a foundational knowledge base for the more advanced study of the history of art in senior level courses within the Department of Art History.
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