● 現代研究コース演習Ａ

034-A-312

This course aims to introduce and give detailed discussion of the art history of Britian and its relation to contemporary UK society. The course will provide close analysis of the following questions:
　
Who are the major names in British art history? Who are the most significant contemporary UK artists? How does British art differ around the various regions of the UK? How are the changing social and political situations of the last fifty years reflected in the UK art of the period? Above all, this course will regularly address the major question: how are the complex and distinct elements of contemporary multicultural British society reflected in the work of any particular artist?
　
Students are required to read around and research the artists and issues discussed in class concerning contemporary UK society to help gain a wider understanding of this course.

The principal learning objective of this course is to familiarize students with the history of visual art in the UK, in particular twentieth century and contemporary art, in order to demonstrate how developments in painting and sculpture and other forms of visual art have increasingly come to reflect contemporary Britain. The specific artists considered have their origins in the UK, but the course also aims to give a wider understanding of historical and contemporary international art, and consider some of the major movements and developments in art history and how these are related to British art.

1	Course Introduction I: Explanation and wide range of (PowerPoint) examples relating to the major themes and the central UK artists to be considered on the course.
2	Course Introduction II: Explanation and wide range of (PowerPoint) examples relating to the central international themes and the major international artists to be considered on the course by way of explanatory comparison to the UK artists.
3	Course Introduction III: Explanation and wide range of (PowerPoint) examples relating to contemporary British society: images and discussion will be wideranging, covering recent changes in art, politics, British society, popular music, fashion.
4	The Origins of Modern UK Visual Expression: British portraiture and landscape painting in the eighteenth century, Thomas Gainsborough (1727 - 1788)
5	British Classicism and Neoclassicism: Joshua Reynolds (1723 - 1792)
6	Romanticism I: Joseph Wright of Derby (1734 - 1797), John Martin (1789 - 1854) , Samuel Palmer (1805 - 1881)
7	Romanticism II: Visionary England: John Constable (1776 - 1837) and William Blake (1757 - 1827)
8	Romanticism III: J. M. W. Turner (1775 - 1851)
9	Victorian Art: The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)
10	Britain, France and British Impressionism: Alfred Sisley (1839 - 1899) and James McNeill Whistler (1834 - 1903)
11	The Early Twentieth Century, World War I painting, John Singer Sargent (1856 - 1925), Augustus John (1878 - 1961)
12	Vorticism, Wyndham Lewis (1882 - 1957), Modernist English Sculpture, Jacob Epstein (1880 - 1959), Henri Gaudier Brzeska (1891 - 1915)
13	Modernism and contemporary UK design
14	Course review
15	Supplementary study
16	Course Revision I: Wide range of (PowerPoint) examples of the central themes and the major UK artists considered in the first semester of the course.
17	Course Revision II: Wide range of (PowerPoint) examples will be provided relating to the central themes and the major UK artists to be considered in the second semester of the course.
18	Post World War II Britain: Modernist developments: Henry Moore (1898 - 1986), Victor Pasmore (1908 - 1998), Barbara Hepworth (1903 - 1975)
19	The School of London I: early Francis Bacon (1909 - 1992), early Lucien Freud (1922 - 2011), Frank Auerbach (1931 - )
20	The School of London II: late Francis Bacon (1909 - 1992), late Lucien Freud (1922 - 2011), Leon Kossoff (1926 - )
21	London and Beyond: L. S. Lowry (1887 - 1976), Graham Sutherland (1903 - 1980)
22	Abstract Expressionism in Britain: Ben Nicholson (1894 - 1982), Patrick Heron (1920 - 1999)
23	Britain in the 60s: UK Pop: David Hockney (1937 - ), Peter Blake (1932 - ), Patrick Caulfield (1936 - 2005)
24	Growing UK Prominence: Ron Kitaj (1932 - 2007), Howard Hodgkin (1932 - ), Richard Long (1945 - )
25	The Importance of the Turner Prize (1984 - ) and the Origins of ‘Cool Britannia’
26	Risen UK Stars: Young British Art: Damien Hirst (1965 - ), Tracy Emin (1963 - ), Rachel Whiteread (1963 - ), Chris Ofili (1968 - )
27	Contemporary Art and Environment: Anthony Gormley (1950 - ), Andy Goldsworthy (1956 - ), Banksy (unknown)
28	British Postcolonialism, Satire and Criticism: Anish Kapoor (1954 - ), Grayson Perry (1960 - )
29	Course review: UK Art and Contemporary British Society, past and present implications, possible futures
30	Supplementary study

Students will be provided with weekly PowerPoint materials and handouts to examine and discuss throughout the course. Short pieces of written analysis and several homework assignments will also help students increase their knowledge of this area. All students are expected to participate actively in the weekly question and answer interactions with the instructor, which are aimed at updating information and awareness of developments in UK contemporary art and society.

Students are expected to prepare for analysis of the weekly artists provided by the instructor by researching privately for between approximately 40 - 60 minutes a week. Art historical and theoretical terms and vocabulary should also should be checked.

レポート：50％（Students are required to submit an end of semester report for both semesters, demonstrating familiarity with the UK social and artistic issues, and theoretical vocabulary examined in the course.）

平常点（クラス参加、グループ作業の成果等）：50％（Students are required to participate actively in class, submit a number of short mid-semester papers, and maintain consistent attendance. Absences must be explained.）

There is no textbook for this course

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