TAD3102

The romantic sensibility in art and design A

6 points
* Two lecture hours and one 1-hour tutorial and 9 independent study hours per week
* Second semester
* Caulfield, Gippsland and distance
* Prerequisites: TAD1101 and TAD1102

Objectives On successful completion of this subject, students should be able to recognise the key formal and conceptual characteristics of baroque, rococo, and romantic art and design; provide a rationale for significant individual achievements and contributions; identify both continuities and discontinuities in the history of art and ideas; recognise how contemporary artists continue to respond to a romantic sensibility.

Synopsis Whilst the classical tradition attempts to trace the philosophical and artistic continuities throughout the history of the Western world, this subject focuses on the discontinuities: those moments of rupture and resistance that subvert, or challenge, the seamless `story' of the grand master narrative that is classicism, the dominant cultural model of Western rationalism. The emphasis in the romantic sensibility course is upon Italian and French art of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, with some coverage of the baroque, rococo and romanticism in Northern Europe as well. Themes, styles, and modes in paintings, prints, drawings, and sculptures are examined in the work of leading European artists. An introduction to baroque and rococo architecture and decorative arts also included.

Assessment Tutorial paper: 20%
* Essay: 30%
* Two-hour examination: 50%

Prescribed texts

Honour H Romanticism Penguin, 1981
Levey M Rococo to revolution: Major trends in eighteenth-century painting Thames and Hudson, 1986
Martin J R Baroque Harper and Row, 1977
Wittkower R Art and architecture in Italy 1600-1750 Penguin, 1985