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Languages & Culture
Art Appreciation: Art and Society in 18th Century Britain
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Course details
Course code
Q00009792Course date
Start: 25/09/24
End: 11/12/24
Number of classes
11 sessionsTutor
Prasannajit De SilvaFee range
Free to £74.00
How you'll learn
Venue
OnlineLevel of study
Availability
This course is for early booking only.
Course overview
Discuss a range of works of art from the eighteenth century, linking them to their social, political and historical contexts, and investigating their role in recording and shaping contemporary debates.
This course is for early booking only.
Course description
Eighteenth-century Britain was marked by social change, economic growth, global expansion, and new ways of thinking. This course will consider the art world in the context of the cultural, social and intellectual developments that were taking place.
The main topics to be covered are:
New spaces for art
Portraiture; social comment
Classicism
Romanticism
The Enlightenment
Travel
Print culture.
The course will encompass a range of items including paintings, printed material, decorative arts, architecture, and gardens.
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