| Unit name | Art and Environmental Awareness (Level C Special Topic) |
|---|---|
| Unit code | HART10214 |
| Credit points | 20 |
| Level of study | C/4 |
| Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 2 (weeks 13 - 24) |
| Unit director | Ms. Tricha Passes |
| Open unit status | Not open |
| Pre-requisites |
None |
| Co-requisites | |
| School/department | Department of History of Art (Historical Studies) |
| Faculty | Faculty of Arts |
Special Topic units place students in direct contact with the research interests of academic tutors and allow them to explore issues surrounding the current state of research in the field. They introduce students to working with primary sources and place those sources in context.
This particular unit aims to address issues concerning environmental awareness and the representation of landscape from the industrial revolution to the present. We will look at a range of artists work from Joseph Wright of Derby in the eighteenth century, Camille Pissarro in the nineteenth century and more recently Joseph Beuys, Agnes Denes, Neil Jenney, Hamish Fulton and Anna Mendieta in the twentieth century. The significance of global warming and how that has figured in much recent creative practice will also be addressed. Assessing the work of leading art historians and historians on this subject such as Lucy Lippard, Aaron Gare, Neil Harris, Kate Soper and Rebecca Solnit the Unit will address a range of ways that creative practice has engaged with these very important debates.
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 Topic Project (HART 10207)
Lippard, Lucy, Lure of the Local – senses of Place in a multicentered society, New York, 1997 Wallis, Brian, Land and Environmental Art, New York, 1998 Elkins, James, Master narratives and their Discontents,London, 2005 Solnit, Rebecca, As Eve Said to the Serpent : On Landscape, Gender , and Art , Athens GA, ,2001 Gablik, Suzy,The Re-enchantment of Art, London, 1991.
