British Art

The intermediate level course charts the evolution of British painting, sculpture, architecture and music from Wellington's victory at Waterloo in 1815 to the Wall Street Crash in 1929. Within this pivotal, long century, Britain experienced high social disruption. British art responded in kind: from the conservative canvases of Victorians at the Royal Academy to the Modernist abstractions of the Rebel Art Centre; and from the painters of the Great War caught within a doomed generation to the dance halls of The Roaring Twenties in the West End of London - we have been bequeathed priceless artefacts from this century of change. This course observes, analyses and assesses the role of art and artists within this rapidly evolving society and is of value for students engaged in the study of art history and the British world in the 19th and early 20th century.