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Sources of Contemporary Fine Art Practice
University of Westminster - Full Curriculum Program
London, England
Dates: 1/15/22 - 5/28/22
Sources of Contemporary Fine Art Practice
OVERVIEW
CEA CAPA Partner Institution: University of Westminster
Location: London, England
Primary Subject Area: Art History
Instruction in: English
Course Code: 4FIAR002W
Transcript Source: Partner Institution
Course Details: Level 200
Recommended Semester Credits: 4
DESCRIPTION
This theory-based module will focus, via a series of lectures, on the origins of the Romantic construct of the artist as
an inspired (white male) individual and social outsider and its impact on the subsequent development of modernist
ideas about originality. The consequences of the application of the term ‘avant-garde’ to art will be critiqued from
feminist, post-colonial and other perspectives, as will related issues of so-called primitivism, ethnicity and cultural
identity This theory-based module will focus, via a series of lectures, on the origins of the Romantic construct of the artist as
an inspired (white male) individual and social outsider and its impact on the subsequent development of modernist
ideas about originality. The consequences of the application of the term ‘avant-garde’ to art will be critiqued from
feminist, post-colonial and other perspectives, as will related issues of so-called primitivism, ethnicity and cultural
identity
an inspired (white male) individual and social outsider and its impact on the subsequent development of modernist
ideas about originality. The consequences of the application of the term ‘avant-garde’ to art will be critiqued from
feminist, post-colonial and other perspectives, as will related issues of so-called primitivism, ethnicity and cultural
identity This theory-based module will focus, via a series of lectures, on the origins of the Romantic construct of the artist as
an inspired (white male) individual and social outsider and its impact on the subsequent development of modernist
ideas about originality. The consequences of the application of the term ‘avant-garde’ to art will be critiqued from
feminist, post-colonial and other perspectives, as will related issues of so-called primitivism, ethnicity and cultural
identity