| Unit name | Landscape (Level C Special Topic) |
|---|---|
| Unit code | HART10208 |
| Credit points | 20 |
| Level of study | C/4 |
| Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 2 (weeks 13 - 24) |
| Unit director | Dr. Hunt |
| Open unit status | Not open |
| Pre-requisites |
none |
| Co-requisites |
HART10207 Special Topic Project |
| School/department | Department of History of Art (Historical Studies) |
| Faculty | Faculty of Arts |
"Artists have always been fascinated by man's relationship to nature, depicting pastoral idylls, on the one hand, and wild untamed nature, on the other. Landscape art can be meticulously realistic, a result of a mapping instinct, as we see in some seventeenth-century Dutch art, or can be wildly imaginative, fantastical or exotic, such as that produced by artists as varied as Bosch or Friedrich. It can be the subject of a painting or the backdrop. It can inspire studies of light and colour, as in the work of the French Impressionists or German Expressionists. Landscape art has been used to project national consciousness or aspirations, from early modern Germany to nineteenth-century North America or Scandinavia. Landscapes can often be highly symbolic, aspects of which may represent good or evil, paradise or hell. Positive and negative representations may also be used to portray the impact of industrialisation or the devastation of war, as in artworks by J.M.W. Turner or Paul Nash. These are some of the issues we will be exploring in this unit, which will be thematically structured, and which will cover a wide geographical and chronological range."
By the end of the unit students should have:
1 x 2 hour exam
