HART 331: BRITISH ART AND AESTHETICS
Spring 2024 · Section 001 · CRN 25599
This seminar will introduce students to British art and aesthetic theory from roughly 1700-1900. Although the primary focus of the class will be on artists, writers, philosophers, and critics based in the metropole, the larger scope of the British Empire and the impact of British imperialism and colonialism on aesthetic production and debates will be an active concern for this class. Beginning in the early eighteenth century, this course will pay particular attention to the ways in which artists, philosophers, and critics responded to a wide array of social debates that were transforming British cultural production including: copyright and the controversy of artistic property; various monetary and financial crises; changes in the law; and the decline in a model of civic humanism premised on land holding and property. Cross-list: HART 531. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 331 if student has credit for HART 531.
- Credits
- 3
- Instructors
- Gordon Hughes