Diploma lecture series 2013
Revolution to romanticism: European art and culture c1750–1850
After the glories of the court and the beauty and sophistication of baroque and rococo art that dominated the art appreciation lecture series last year, this year’s rich and varied course plunges us into the heart of the turbulent period that shaped European history and culture. Witness the great ideals proclaimed, the old order destroyed, society reformed, empires formed and lost, and art transformed, first by the passion for antiquity, then the turbulence of Romanticism, and finally by the impulses of modernity.
If the storming of the Bastille was the enduring symbol of a long and complex process, revolution of course didn’t just happen on one day on the streets of Paris, or as Louis XVI went to the guillotine. The revolutionary process was a complex beast, setting in train many shifts in the political regime, more than a decade of war, and enabling the rise (and fall) of Napoleon’s astonishing Empire. Nor did it emerge from nowhere; indeed it was prefigured in the Atlantic Revolt that spurred the American Independence, with its declarations of human rights and aspiration to freedom from arbitrary impositions.
The course, ranging as it does across painting, sculpture and architecture, promises to be a highly stimulating journey into the heart of a troubled and turbulent epoch, one which was seminal to so many of our modern ideas and concepts. Self, Nation, Landscape, the Sublime – all these key ideas in modern culture were shaped in these momentous decades, which also produced some of the most stunning and beautiful art of the Western tradition.
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Full year • Term 1 • Term 2 • Term 3 • Individual lectures: see below
Image: Jacques-Louis David (1748-1825) Mars being disarmed by Venus and the three graces 1824 (detail), Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Brussels
Various Wednesdays 6pm
Various Thursdays 1pm
30 January – 14 November 2013
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Full year: non-member $740, member $530
Per term: non-member $310, member $220
Per lecture: non-member $35, member $25
Term 1: 30 Jan – 25 Apr
Term 2: 5 Jun – 15 Aug
Term 3: 21 Aug – 14 Nov
Bookings and enquiries: 02 9225 1878
Cancellations:
Three full working days (Mon–Fri) notice is required to qualify for a refund. All refunds attract an administration charge of 25% of the ticket price(s) with a minimum charge of $5. With full year or per term tickets, there are no refunds for single sessions, unless a session is cancelled. Not negotiable.
Duration 1 hour
Location: Domain Theatre
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The rise of public art: exhibitions and spectacles in the late 18th century
Mark Ledbury
Rattling chairs and hooting owls: Fuseli and the Gothick
Craig Judd
From Pompeii to the Elgin marbles
Christopher Allen
Goya
Michael Hill
Science and spectacle in the work of Joseph Wright of Derby
Georgina Cole
Surface and sensation in Rococo painting
Georgina Cole
Change to schedule. Due to unforeseen circumstances, Mark Ledbury is unable to deliver his lecture The grand ambitions of a genre painter: Jean-Baptiste Greuze’s rise and fall on 6 & 7 March as originally advised. His lecture will be rescheduled. We apologise for any inconvenience.
Women artists of the revolutionary period
Lorraine Kypiotis
Lively touches and surprising effects: the art of Thomas Gainsborough
Georgina Cole
His pencil too warm: Joshua Reynolds and the art of celebrity
Mark de Vitis
Catherine the Great
Jennifer Milam
Icy perfection: Antonio Canova and neo-classical sculpture
Brian Ladd
Winckelmann and the beginning of neo-classicism in Rome
Christopher Allen
David and the revolution
Mark Ledbury
William Blake’s 'divine imagination'
Josephine Touma
Tutorial: Wednesday 19 June, 5pm or Thursday 20 June, 11am.
Members lounge boardroom.
Please note this is optional for students wishing to prepare for the diploma.
Collecting and the birth of the museum
Christopher Marshall
Ruins and romanticism
Georgina Cole
In the court of the sultans: European visions of Constantinople
Andrew Yip
Slide revision: Wednesday evening series 10 July, 5pm.
Domain Theatre.
Please note this is optional for students wishing to prepare for the diploma.
Caspar David Friedrich and the art of the sublime
Jacqueline Strecker
Slide revision: Thursday lunchtime series 18 July, 11am.
Domain Theatre.
Please note this is optional for students wishing to prepare for the diploma.
Dressing an empire: Napoleon’s style politics
Mark de Vitis
The classical tradition reconsidered: John Soane and Henri Labrouste
Peter Kohane
The art of nature: British landscape watercolours
Cathy Leahy
Corot and plein-air painting
Michelle Hiscock
Noble beyond expression: neo-classicism in America
Jane Clark
The life and line of Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
Mark de Vitis
A taste for scandal: the English regency
Craig Judd
Tutorials: Wednesday 4 September, 5pm or Thursday 5 September, 11am.
Members lounge boardroom.
Please note this is optional for students wishing to prepare for the diploma.
The everyday aesthetics of Danish and Biedermeier art in the early 19th century
Jacqueline Strecker
Invoking the wisdom and the ancient authority of Vitruvius: Charles Robert Cockerell’s classical principals of architecture
Peter Kohane
Gericault and Delacroix: romanticism and sensation
Chiara O’Reilly
Constable and Turner: the pastoral and the sublime
Lorraine Kypiotis
Romanticism and the portrait
Christopher Allen
Romanticism and nature
Chiara O’Reilly
The beginnings of modernism in the industrial revolution
Michael Hill
Change to schedule: This was originally advertised as Mechanical or organic life: John Ruskin’s theory of labour with Peter Kohane, which is now on 13 & 14 November
Mechanical or organic life: John Ruskin’s theory of labour
Peter Kohane
Change to schedule: This was originally advertised as The beginnings of modernism in the industrial revolution with Michael Hill, which is now on 6 & 7 November
Diploma slide test and essays due
Wednesday evening series – 20 November 2013, 6pm.
Thursday lunchtime series – 21 November 2013, 11am.
Domain Theatre.
Essays due on same dates.
Wednesday 20 November 2013 6pm – 7pm
Thursday 21 November 2013 1pm – 2pm
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