Unit name | Modern Art in Britain 1910-1960 (Level I Special Field) |
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Unit code | HART26003 |
Credit points | 20 |
Level of study | I/5 |
Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 2 (weeks 13 - 24) |
Unit director | Professor. Shaw-Miller |
Open unit status | Not open |
Pre-requisites |
None |
Co-requisites |
HART22225 Special Field Project |
School/department | Department of History of Art (Historical Studies) |
Faculty | Faculty of Arts |
This Unit will consider this vibrant period in British art starting with the 1910 Post Impressionist Exhibition organised by the influential critic and artist Roger Fry. We will examine British Art and its response to the conflict of the First World War and chart the variety of modern artistic practice in the inter war years with particular reference to Abstraction and Surrealism. The significance of landscape and the importance on the artistic colony at St Ives in Cornwall will also be addressed. Attention will also be paid to the variety of art produced during the Second World War and for the 1951 The Festival of Britain. The internationally renowned British figurative tradition from Stanley Spencer to Francis Bacon and Lucien Freud will also be assessed.
By the end of the unit students should have:
Weekly 2-hour seminar Access to tutorial consultation with unit tutor in office hours
2-hour unseen written examination (summative, 100%)
The examination will assess their understanding of the unit’s key themes, the related historiography as developed during their reading and participation in / learning from small group seminars, and relevant primary sources. Further assessment of their handling of the relevant primary sources will be provided by the co-requisite Special Field Project (HART 22225)
GREEN, Christopher (ed), Art Made Modern. Roger Fry’s Vision of Art (London, 1999)
HARRISON, Charles, English Art and Modernism 1900-1939 (New Haven, 1981).
PETERS CORBETT, David, The Modernity of English Art 1914-30 (Manchester, 1997)
ROBINS, Anna Gruetzner, Modern Art in Britain 1910-1914 (London, 1997)
TICKNER, Lisa, Modern Life and Modern Subjects. British Art in the Early Twentieth Century (New Haven, 2000)