University of Cambridge/Institute of Continuing Education

Art History Tutor for the Undergraduate Diploma in British Visual Culture, 2022-3

Michaelmas Term, 2022: Unit 1: British Art in a Global Context: The Long Seventeenth Century (co-taught online with Dr Lydia Hamlett).

The course is an iteration of a version taught in 2020/1 and it examines British visual culture in a global context from the end of the sixteenth to the start of the eighteenth centuries. See below for more detail.

British Art: Hogarth to Turner

Week 5: 26-30th July 2021

A one-week, online course investigating the production and consumption of British art, from the accession of George I in 1714 to the death of George III in 1820 during a period transformed by aggressive imperial expansion and consumer revolution, the visual arts flourished and structured around some of the celebrated figures of the period – Hogarth, Reynolds, Gillray, Turner. It will adopt a contextual view, understanding their art in relation to broader social, political and imperial issues and thinking about how, in the 18th century, they and other artists could be travellers, explorers and celebrities, as well as moralists, theorists, propagandists and provocateurs.

For more information and to enrol in this course: https://www.ice.cam.ac.uk/course/british-art-hogarth-turner

Undergraduate Diploma in History of Art in British Visual Culture , 2020-1

Michaelmas Term, 2020: Unit 1: British Art in a Global Context: The Long Seventeenth Century (co-taught online with Dr Lydia Hamlett).

This module will examine British visual culture in a global context from the end of the sixteenth to the start of the eighteenth centuries. It will focus on the influence of the court, from the late Tudors and across each of the Stuart monarchs, looking at the interaction of arts of all media with aspects of wider culture including literary, historical and political. The sites of the royal palace and aristocratic country and town house, in particular, will serve as foci for the examination of architecture, painting, sculpture, gardens, mural painting, miniatures and tapestries. The course will consider the extent we can talk about “British” art when, in fact, many of the artists and craftsmen of the period were migrants from the Continent.

Hilary Term, 2121: Unit 2: The Eighteenth Century: The Golden Age of British Art (co-taught online with Dr Sarah Pearson)

This course will begin with the shift from a British Baroque to the beginning of what is traditionally seen as the “Golden Age” of British art, a period that saw the birth of the Royal Academy and the huge popularity of British-born artists such as Hogarth, Constable, Turner and Reynolds. The course will look at the divergence of the arts from the previous period and the emergence of new hierarchies of genres, including an exploration of the evolution of history painting and the predominance of the neoclassical in architectural projects. It will consider notions of Britishness in the context of imperial dominance and its impact on visual culture at home. Current issues in interpretation in museums and heritage will be addressed, for example around slavery and the historic house.

You can find out more here: https://www.ice.cam.ac.uk/course/undergraduate-diploma-history-art-british-visual-culture