| Unit name | English Avant-Garde? Pre-Raphaelites, Aesthetes, Impressionists |
|---|---|
| Unit code | HARTM0015 |
| Credit points | 20 |
| Level of study | M/7 |
| Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 1 (weeks 1 - 12) |
| Unit director | Professor. Prettejohn |
| Open unit status | Not open |
| Pre-requisites |
None |
| Co-requisites |
None |
| School/department | Department of History of Art (Historical Studies) |
| Faculty | Faculty of Arts |
This unit will investigate the notion of the 'avant-garde', usually associated with the French modern art movements, in a different context: English art from 1848 to the beginning of the twentieth century. It will concentrate on three English art movements: the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, the Aesthetic Movement, and Brisitsh Impressionism. These movements, formerly regarded as mere sidelines to the mainstream development of modernism in France and continental Europe, have attracted rapidly increasing scholarly attention since the 1980s. The unit will explore how this new scholarship has changed our understanding of English modern art, and how that might change the historiography of modern art more generally. It will draw on the abundant primary documentation that is available for the study of English art in this period, much of which has yet to be explored in the scholarly literature.
