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20th Century United States Art – Online Course
Course Code: OC2302AH03 Tutor: Daniel Greaney Course Dates: Mondays, 8th January - 5th February 2024 Days: 5 Times: 6.30pm - 8pm Experience Level: Ages 18+, All Levels Fee: £115 Location: Online Recommend booking before: Monday 18th December 2023 £115.00Although Paris remained the centre of the art world at the beginning of the 20th Century, in the United States, art was progressing at a frantic pace, often independent of developments elsewhere. The gritty realism of the Ashcan School developed in New York at a time when that city was undergoing significant social changes. Two World Wars brought vast numbers of European émigrés to the country, bringing with them trends which influenced their American peers. Abstract Expressionism, credited entirely to the United States shifted the focus away from Europe; America now dominated trends. Pop Art was a perfect reflection of consumer-driven Post-War America. Political change brought about by the Civil Rights and Feminist Movements, broadened the scope of topics an artist might address, an attitude which continues to the present day. Â
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Art & Identity Politics, 1965 to Present – Online Course
Course Code: OC2302AH05 Tutor: Dr Oriana Fox Course Dates: Tuesdays, 20th February - 19th March 2024 Days: 5 Times: 6 - 8pm Experience Level: All Levels Fee: £115 Location: Online Recommend booking before: Tuesday 30th January 2024 £115.00This new course explores the impact of identity politics on the practice and curation of visual art from 1965 to the present.
We’ll be taking a closer look at artworks informed by feminism, anti-racism, post-colonialism, class and labour advocacy, LGBTQ+ and disability rights as well as their intersections. These works often represent the artist’s authentic life experiences to counter and interrogate stereotypes, leading to innovations in both the subject matter and form of art.
Such innovations also include the varied forms of activist art, direct action and public intervention aimed at combatting the systematic exclusion of minorities from culture. Activism has informed the re-writing of art history, the curation of exhibitions and the expansion of collections.Though ‘identity politics’ is a contentious term, students will examine its origins and the contemporary intersectional politics that follow on from it, moving beyond the tokenism that merely extends existing canons, aiming instead to question the very value systems that underpin them.
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Women Artists from 1900 to 1950 – Online Course
Course Code: OC2302AH04 Tutor: Daniel Greaney Course Dates: Mondays, 19th February - 18th March 2024 Days: 5 Times: 6.30pm - 8pm Experience Level: Ages 18+, All Levels Fee: £115 Location: Online Recommend booking before: Monday 29th January 2024 £115.00The restrictions female practitioners had historically faced in their art training, were by the Twentieth Century becoming more relaxed. Women now rightly took their place alongside their male peers, forming radical new styles and were frequently at the forefront of artistic developments. Both socially and culturally, the role of the female artist changed to such an extent that they were integral to the organisation of avant-garde events and establishing groups. This attitude was not confined to France, indeed other centres were often more progressive towards the inclusion and support of women artists in a male dominated system. We will look at practitioners from Europe and the US, focussing on the first half of the 20th Century, a period of great change for women and see how collectively, these practitioners changed the role of the artist and the course of art history.Â