ARTH 250 Art, Society, and Culture Units: 3.00
An introduction to the social conditions and cultural movements that shaped European visual art of the nineteenth century in its global context. The course will stress the tension between modernity and anti-modernism as well as competing views on the very nature of visual art.
NOTE Only offered online, consult Arts and Science Online.
NOTE Only offered online, consult Arts and Science Online.
Learning Hours: 120 (48 Online Activity, 72 Private Study)
Requirements: Prerequisite (Level 2 or above) or permission of the Department.
Exclusion ARTH 223/3.0.
Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Discuss how social, political, and technological factors can affect the visual arts.
- Explain and compare issues relating to the categorization of the arts.
- Explain the non-linear development of European visual arts.
- Identify artists associated with 19th-century art movements, their styles, and artistic interests.
- Identify key features of 19th-century Western art movements.
- Identify key, social, political, cultural, and technological developments of the period.