Unit information: Urban Art (Level I Special Field) in 2014/15

Unit name	Urban Art (Level I Special Field)
Unit code	HART26004
Credit points	20
Level of study	I/5
Teaching block(s)	Teaching Block 2 (weeks 13 - 24)
Unit director	Dr. Haran
Open unit status	Not open
Pre-requisites	none
Co-requisites	None
School/department	Department of History of Art (Historical Studies)
Faculty	Faculty of Arts

Description including Unit Aims

This unit explores the ways in which various urban environments have been represented in art and the role that art and artistic agencies have played in the shaping of various urban environments. We will therefore examine the representation of the city by a range of eighteenth and nineteenth-century British-based artists, and address how the commissioning of public art and the establishment of museums and galleries have altered actual cityscapes and assisted in the construction of civic identity. Artists to be studied will include William Hogarth, Gustave Doré and Ford Maddox Brown, amongst many others. This module contains a museological element and will include fieldwork

Teaching Information

Weekly two hour seminar

Assessment Information

2-hour unseen written examination (summative, 100%)

Reading and References

• Altick, R. D. The Shows of London (1978)

• Malcolm, M. Art, Space and the City: Public Art and Urban Futures (1999)

• Nead, L. Victorian Babylon: People, Streets and Images in 19th Century London (2000)

• Waterfield, G. (ed.), Palaces of Art: Art Galleries in Britain 1790-1990 (1991)

• Weald, K., Peltz, L. & Ross, C. Creative Quarters: The Art World in London 1700-2000 (2001)

• Wilson, E. The Sphinx and the City: Urban Life, the Control of Disorder, and Women (1991)