What is art and how has it changed through history? What is visual culture? This 32-week course will explore these and many other issues through case studies focused on artworks, buildings and other visual artefacts. Topics addressed range from Gothic churches to modern design, Renaissance altarpieces to Dutch seventeenth-century painting, eighteenth-century landscape parks to recent installations and videos. In the course of your study you will also gain an understanding of the art-historical debates that have shaped approaches to this exciting subject. A226 is taught using lavishly illustrated course books, alongside extensive audio, video and interactive material.
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