Postgraduate Course: Impressionism and the Third Republic, Culture, Politics and Social Change, 1865-1900 (HIAR11021)
Course Outline
| School | Edinburgh College of Art |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | The course is concerned with the interchanges between the production of art, political processes and the larger patterns of social change under the early Third Republic. Taking account of the final years of the Second Empire, and in particular the effects of Haussmann's rebuilding of Paris, the course considers crucial political events and social currents, from the Franco-Prussian War and the Commune of 1870-1 through to the Ralliement and the Dreyfus Affair in the 1890s. Impressionist painting, of which the National Gallery of Scotland has outstanding examples, is central to the course, as is the work of less-well known artists whose reputations were high under the Third Republic. Painting forms the core of the course, with drawing, sculpture and printmaking also having a place. The aim of the course is to place the creation and consumption of art within social, economic and political processes, so topics will include the art market, the poster, landscapes of tourism or national identity, the pictorial articulation of republican values, the imagery of anarchism, or the concept of decadence. |
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Learning Outcomes
| It is intended that studends acquire a good knowledge and understanding of the material studied through preparing a series of short seminar presentations on selected topics, reading the texts recommended in the bibliography, week by week and engaging actively in general discussion during seminars. The students are urged to use archive, gallery as well as library sources and thus get used to documentary research and the analysis of primary sources from the beginning of the MSc degree. One-to-one tutorials are used to help them select the subject of the course essay and to monitor the progress of their research and thinking. The other purpose of these tutorials is to aid them make the transition from undergraduate to postgraduate study and to develop their self-confidence and sense of their potential contribution as art historians.
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Additional Information
| Course URL |
http://www.arthistory.ed.ac.uk |
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Location will be confirmed in Handbook |
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Contacts
| Course organiser | Prof Richard Thomson
Tel: (0131 6)50 4125
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Course secretary | Miss Lizzie Robertson
Tel: (0131 6)51 5852
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