| Unit name | Art and Environmental Awareness from the Eighteenth Century to Now |
|---|---|
| Unit code | HARTM0041 |
| Credit points | 20 |
| Level of study | M/7 |
| Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 1 (weeks 1 - 12) |
| Unit director | Ms. Tricha Passes |
| Open unit status | Not open |
| Units you must take before you take this one (pre-requisite units) |
None |
| Units you must take alongside this one (co-requisite units) |
None |
| Units you may not take alongside this one |
None. |
| School/department | Department of History of Art (Historical Studies) |
| Faculty | Faculty of Arts |
This unit addresses issues concerning environmental awareness and the representation of landscape from the industrial revolution to the present.
We will look at a range of artwork from Joseph Wright of Derby in the eighteenth century, Camille Pissarro, Turner and Thomas Cole in the nineteenth century and more recently Joseph Beuys, Agnes Denes, Neil Jenney, Hamish Fulton, Ai Weiwei, Richard Long, Andreas Gursky and Anna Mendieta in the twentieth and twenty first century.
We will address the critical significance of how both global warming and industrial waste have been explored in recent creative practices by assessing the work of leading scholars on this subject such as Lucy Lippard, Aaron Gare, Neil Harris, Kate Soper and Rebecca Solnit.
The unit will also address a range of ways that artists’ have engaged with these important debates from a European context to the globalised world we now inhabit.
The aims of the unit are to familiarize students with artistic responses to changes in the landscape that have impacted our understanding of the natural world. The industrial revolution ushered in a new age and students will have the opportunity to assess creative responses to this paradigm shift.
At the end of this unit students should be able to:
1.Recognise the different environmental issues that effect our representation of the landscape from the industrial revolution to the present.
2.Identify a variety of artists from across the period whose work has been influenced by environmental issues.
3.Analyse the significance of environmental issues for contemporary art practice.
4.Examine how international galleries and foundations have responded to this issue and have supported artists developing projects.
5.Demonstrate a critical understanding of environmental issues and be able to communicate this in writing as appropriate to level M.
1 x 2hr informal lecture and 1 x 1hr seminar per week
5000-word essay (100%) [ILOs 1-5]
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How much time the unit requires
Each credit equates to 10 hours of total student input. For example a 20 credit unit will take you 200 hours
of study to complete. Your total learning time is made up of contact time, directed learning tasks,
independent learning and assessment activity.
See the Faculty workload statement relating to this unit for more information.
Assessment
The Board of Examiners will consider all cases where students have failed or not completed the assessments required for credit.
The Board considers each student's outcomes across all the units which contribute to each year's programme of study. If you have self-certificated your absence from an
assessment, you will normally be required to complete it the next time it runs (this is usually in the next assessment period).
The Board of Examiners will take into account any extenuating circumstances and operates
within the Regulations and Code of Practice for Taught Programmes.
