Instructor Catherine Anderson

Summer Session 1

From the birth of a national school of British painting in the eighteenth century, through Pre-Raphaelitism, the Aesthetic Movement, and other forms of modernism in the late 1800s, this course examines British art in the context of social, cultural, and political developments. We will devote particular attention to gender and the changing position of women in society, and to contemporary views on race and ethnicity as affected by the politics of the British Empire. 

Topics to be covered include Hogarth, satire, and popular culture; Romanticism in art and literature; landscape and industrialization; the Arts and Crafts Movement and medievalism; and Queen Victoria and the female gaze.

M, T, W 10:00-11:40 am Room: Art 217