Romanticism

AHCP33192 Romanticism 20 Semester 2 Undergraduate Level 3 Colin Trodd Unit coordinator 1 FHEQ level (Framework for Higher Education Qualifications) ' Last part of a Bachelors ' European Credit Transfer & Accumulation System Rating : 10.0 The first section of this course examines the nature of Romantic aesthetics and art criticism, before turning to a detailed consideration of the creations of individual artists. The second section of the course explores different critical formulations of Romanticism since the middle of the nineteenth century and proceeds to engage with recreations of Romanticism within modern culture. Particular attention will be paid to key artists, designers and thinkers:  Blake, Delacroix, Friedrich, Runge; Gauguin, Munch, Redon, Rossetti, Van Gogh; Morris, Crane and Ashbee; Baudelaire, Swinburne, Aurier, Nietzsche, and Yeats. Detailed study will be made of key examples of Romantic art and of such Romantic concepts as creation, execution, expression, imagination, incarnation, individualism, subjectivity, vision, vitalism, and the role of these in the critical development of the discourses on Romanticism.  The first section of this course examines the nature of Romantic aesthetics and art criticism before turning to a detailed consideration of the creations of individual artists. The second section of the course explores different critical formulations of Romanticism since the middle of the nineteenth century and proceeds to engage with recreations of Romanticism within modern culture. Particular attention will be paid to key artists, designers and thinkers:  Blake, Delacroix, Friedrich, Runge; Gauguin, Munch, Redon, Rossetti, Van Gogh; Morris, Crane and Ashbee; Baudelaire, Swinburne, Aurier, Nietzsche, and Yeats. Detailed study will be made of key examples of Romantic art and of such Romantic concepts as creation, execution, expression, imagination, incarnation, individualism, subjectivity, vision, vitalism, and the role of these in the critical development of the discourses on Romanticism.  <ul> <li> to  give an understanding of the nature of Romantic art in general and of its critical, cultural and artistic reception in particular;</li> <li> to analyse dynamic processes of identity formation in Romantic visual culture;</li> <li> to examine the impact of Romantic art and aesthetics on later art forms;</li> <li> to encourage the development of critical and argumentative skills in written and oral contexts.</li></ul> By the end of this course students will be able to:<ul> <li> Critically analyse examples of Romantic art and to place them in the appropriate critical and historical spaces</li> <li> Critically examine examples of Romantic art writing</li> <li> Understand some of  the contexts in which Romanticism is renewed after 1850</li> <li> Understand some of the curatorial and institutional contexts in which Romantic painting is displayed from 1850</li></ul> By the end of this course students will be able to:<ul> <li> Reflect critically on relevant art historical and cultural scholarship</li> <li> Develop skills of linguistic criticism and interpretation</li></ul> By the end of this course students will be able to:<ul> <li> Strengthen research skills through assessed work</li> <li> Further skills for the analysis of primary sources from the period</li> <li> Engage with on-line research using relevant websites and databases contained in the course unit guide bibliography</li></ul> By the end of this course students will be able to:<ul> <li> Work independently</li> <li> Collaborate in seminar group work</li> <li> Develop and complete assessments to specified deadlines</li> <li> Participate constructively in seminar discussions and projects</li></ul> Other Self-awareness and critical thinking, key employability skills, will be developed by placing the subject of romanticism within the wider world of art galleries, exhibition histories and curatorial cultures. The assessment culture will spotlight these matters by including tasks that require candidates to consider how cultural institutions model cultural value through exhibition catalogues and gallery displays. Sessions may  include:The Wonder World: Romanticism and AestheticsCreating Romanticism: Art Criticism  from Hazlitt to BaudelaireRomanticism and Composite Art (Blake)Romanticism; or, Living Form and Anti-Pictorialism (Blake) Romanticism: the Book of Nature (Palmer and The Ancients)Romanticism: the Book of Nature  ( Friedrich, Runge and Delacroix)Recreating Romanticism:  (Rossetti, Gauguin and Redon)  Recreating Romanticism  (Munch and Van Gogh) ‘Dionysian’ Romanticism (Nietzsche to Read)Romanticism and VitalismExhibiting RomanticismRegenerations: Romanticism, Mythos and Modern CultureNeo- Romanticism and the Modern ImaginationRomanticism TodayCritical Overview and Exam Revision    Lectures, seminars, workshops, projects, and directed reading  Course unit text , recorded lectures, images and seminar powerpoints will be available via Blackboard  0 Other 100% <figure class="table"><table><tbody><tr><td>Assessment task</td><td>Formative or Summative</td><td>Length</td><td>Weighting within unit (if relevant)</td></tr><tr><td>Essay Plan</td><td>Formative</td><td>500 words</td><td>0%</td></tr><tr><td>Essay 1</td><td>Summative</td><td>1500 words</td><td>40%</td></tr><tr><td>Essay 2</td><td>Summative</td><td>2500 words</td><td>60%</td></tr></tbody></table></figure>  <ul> <li> Written feedback on essays and essay plan</li> <li> Additional one-to-one feedback (during consultation hour or by making an appointment)</li></ul> Y Abrams, M. H., The Mirror and the Lamp: Romantic Theory and the Critical Tradition, New York, 1953Bloom, Harold, Romanticism and Consciousness , New York, 1970Curran, Stuart, (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Romanticism, Cambridge, 1993Frye, Northrop, Fearful Symmetry, New York, 1947Harrison, Charles, et al( eds), Art in Theory 1648-1815, Oxford, 2000,Harrison, Charles, et al( eds), Art in Theory 1815-1900, Oxford, 1998Hartley, Keith, (ed.), The Romantic Spirit in German Art, 1790-1900, Edinburgh, 1994McGann, Jerome, The Romantic Ideology, Chicago, 1983Podro, Michael, The Critical Historians of Art, New Haven, 1982Rosenblum, Robert, Modern Painting and the Northern Romantic Tradition, New York, 1975Trodd, Colin, Visions of Blake: William Blake in the Art World, 1830-1930, Liverpool, 2012 Lectures 22 Seminars 11 0 167