AR121-4-AU-CO:
Art Revolutions
2021/22
Art History and Theory
Colchester Campus
Autumn
Undergraduate: Level 4
Current
Thursday 07 October 2021
Friday 17 December 2021
15
05 October 2021
Requisites for this module
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BA V314 Art History,
BA V315 Art History (Including Placement Year),
BA V31B Art History (Including Foundation Year and Year Abroad),
BA V350 Art History (Including Foundation Year),
BA V35A Art History (Including Year Abroad),
MARTV399 Art History,
MARTVB98 Art History (Including Placement Year),
MARTVB99 Art History (Including Year Abroad),
BA V351 Curating,
BA V352 Curating (Including Year Abroad),
BA V353 Curating (including Placement Year),
BA V359 Curating (Including Foundation Year),
BA V35B Curating (Including Foundation Year and Year Abroad),
BA W350 Art History, Visual Culture and Media Studies,
BA W351 Art History, Visual Culture and Media Studies (including Year Abroad),
BA W352 Art History, Visual Culture and Media Studies (including Placement Year),
BA W353 Art History, Visual Culture and Media Studies (Including Foundation Year),
BA VV40 Art History, Heritage and Museum Studies,
BA VV41 Art History, Heritage and Museum Studies (Including Foundation Year),
BA VV42 Art History, Heritage and Museum Studies (including Placement Year),
BA VV43 Art History, Heritage and Museum Studies (including Year Abroad)
This module offers an in-depth study of a revolutionary moment in the production of art. Why is it that artists 'suddenly' start to create works that are startlingly different from what came before? Starting with the provocative Realism of the mid nineteenth century, we'll further investigate Impressionism in the context of the social, political and economic changes that heralded the birth of modernity in France.
The themes we will explore will include labour and class, gender, technology including photography, the built environment, and display. We will explore not only the historical stature and reputation of Courbet, Manet, Degas, Monet, Morisot, Cassatt, Caillebotte, Pissarro, Renoir and others, but their contemporary relevance. And we will examine not only why and how artists reacted to their time, but how they also came to influence it.
The aims of the module are:
1. to introduce students to key movements in the history of art by focusing on Realism and Impressionism;
2. to develop skills of oral and written description and analysis of art works;
3. to develop interpretation skills through comparative visual analysis;
4. to familiarise students with the use of primary and secondary sources.
By the end of this module the student should have:
1. a sound grasp of Impressionist artworks and their context;
2. the ability to interpret works and texts based on sound knowledge of the appropriate historical and interpretative contexts;
3. the confidence to subject the texts studied to critical analysis; and
4. good bibliographic and basic research skills.
By the end of the module, students should also have acquired a set of transferable skills, and in particular be able to:
1. engage with the subject through visual analysis and close attention to detail;
2. define the task in which they are engaged and exclude what is irrelevant;
3. seek and organise the most relevant discussions and sources of information;
4. process a large volume of diverse and sometimes conflicting arguments;
5. compare and evaluate different arguments and assess the limitations of their own position or procedure;
6. write and present verbally a succinct and precise account of positions, arguments, and their presuppositions and implications;
7. be sensitive to the positions of others and communicate their own views in ways that are accessible to them;
8. think 'laterally' and creatively (i.e., to explore interesting connections and possibilities, and to present these clearly rather than as vague hunches);
9. maintain intellectual flexibility and revise their own position based on feedback;
10. think critically and constructively.
No additional information available.
There will be a two-hour combined lecture and seminar each week.
There will also be Reading Week when no teaching will take place, exact week to be confirmed.
This module does not appear to have a published bibliography for this year.
Assessment items, weightings and deadlines
| Coursework / exam |
Description |
Deadline |
Coursework weighting |
| Coursework |
Quizzes TOTAL |
|
35% |
| Coursework |
Essay Proposal of 500 words with Bibliography |
|
25% |
| Coursework |
1500 word essay |
|
40% |
Exam format definitions
- Remote, open book: Your exam will take place remotely via an online learning platform. You may refer to any physical or electronic materials during the exam.
- In-person, open book: Your exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may refer to any physical materials such as paper study notes or a textbook during the exam. Electronic devices may not be used in the exam.
- In-person, open book (restricted): The exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may refer only to specific physical materials such as a named textbook during the exam. Permitted materials will be specified by your department. Electronic devices may not be used in the exam.
- In-person, closed book: The exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may not refer to any physical materials or electronic devices during the exam. There may be times when a paper dictionary,
for example, may be permitted in an otherwise closed book exam. Any exceptions will be specified by your department.
Your department will provide further guidance before your exams.
Overall assessment
Reassessment
Module supervisor and teaching staff
Dr Natasha Ruiz-Gomez, email: natashar@essex.ac.uk.
Dr Natasha Ruiz-Gomez
artquery@essex.ac.uk
Yes
Yes
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Dr Dominic Paterson
University of Glasgow
Senior Lecturer in History of Art / Curator of Contemporary Art
Available via Moodle
Of 36 hours, 18 (50%) hours available to students:
18 hours not recorded due to service coverage or fault;
0 hours not recorded due to opt-out by lecturer(s), module, or event type.
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