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The Painting of Modern Life: French and English Painting in Focus - SAHT2606
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Faculty: College of Fine Arts
 
 
School:  School of Art History and Art Education
 
 
Course Outline: Download course outline (PDF format)
 
 
Campus: College of Fine Arts Campus
 
 
Career: Undergraduate
 
 
Units of Credit: 6
 
 
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
 
 
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 3
 
 
Fee Band: 1 (more info)
 
 
Further Information: See Class Timetable
 
 

Description

This course focuses on Realist and Impressionist painting in the second half of the nineteenth century in France and England. The work is considered within changing social, political and cultural contexts, with special attention paid to its critical reception in reviews and cartoons. Questions to do with gender, class, sexuality, labour and leisure are examined in relation to such well known artists as Courbet, Manet, Morisot, Degas, Holman Hunt and Ford Madox Brown, as well as lesser known figures including Augustus Egg, Luke Fildes and Francois Salle.

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