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Module code and title: A102, An arts foundation course
Item code: A102; AC4
Published: 1988
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Duration: 01:30:24
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Side 1 Track 1
Track 2 band 1: Writing an Interdisciplinary Essay. The aim of this band is to help guide the student through the transition between the first and second parts of A102 and in particular to demonstrate how the discipline-based skills taught in the first part can be applied appropriately in the service of an interdisciplinary argument
Track 3 band 2: Women artists and writers. In this band, Briony Fer examines the role of women as artists and writers in the Victorian period, and considers, more specifically, how far women were able to participate, professionally, in the practice of art and literature, how far they were excluded from the institutions of 'high' or fine art, and whether women played a role in the questioning of the canons of 'high' art, later in the period
Track 4 band 3: Victorian Photography. Through analysis of some of the functions and conventions associated with two broad types of Victorian portrait photography - the carte-de-visite and the documentary photograph - Gill Perry examines the contemporary debates about the role of photography and its relationship to painting
Track 5 the argument (espoused by many Victorians) that the photograph was potentially a more honest or 'scientific' medium than painting, and the effects of technical advances on the production of photographic images and dimensions
Side 2 Track 6 Side 2
Track 7 band 1: Victorian Poetry I - Rudyard Kipling. This band is closely connected to Units 23-24, Section 6, and aims to illustrate the importance of performance in the production and consumption of popular poetry. Illustrations used are 'Here Upon Guard am I' (Anon) and 'Danny Deever' (Rudyard Kipling)
Track 8 band 2: Victorian Poetry II - William Barnes. This band consists of readings of three poems by William Barnes - 'Sound O'Water', 'Hallowed Pleace' and 'Our Fathers Work'. They are connected with Section 9.2 'Dialect Poetry of Country Life: William Barnes' in Units 29-30 'Town and Country
Track 9 band 3: Urban Architecture. The aim of this band is to introduce the student to some of the ways in which Victorian urban architecture can be seen as both a reflection of the society which produced it and a factor for change. The band is divided into two sections, section 1 deals with urban housing, and section II with other buildings and the problems of architectural style
Producer: Tony Coe
Contributors: William Barnes; Ellie Chambers; Colin Cunningham; Nicola Durbridge; Briony Fer; Gillian Perry
Publisher: BBC Open University
Master spool number: AC1020
Production number: AC1020
Available to public: no