Seminar Styling Britain British Art Architecture and Design 1600 1820

Dozent: Dr. Peter Lindfield-Ott, University of St Andrews, GB Art der Veranstaltung: Seminar - in englischer Sprache! Starts 19th October – ends mid December Titel: Styling Britain - British Art, Architecture and Design, 1600–1820 Beschreibung: This course covers British art from the time of King Charles I (1600–1649) through to George IV (1762–1820). It provides a survey of painting, sculpture, architecture, and design produced at this time by native and foreign artists practicing in Britain. We begin by exploring the Baroque in England with the work of Rubens and his pupil, Anthony van Dyck. The notion of kingship expressed by Van Dyck in his depictions of Charles I will be of particular focus. To consider the development in English architecture we survey England's traditional style — Gothic — before turning to examine classical buildings erected by Inigo Jones in the seventeenth century. We conclude by considering the most iconic of London's seventeenth-century structures — Sir Christopher Wren's 'new' St Paul's Cathedral. Next we turn to the eighteenth century — a period when England is at war as often as at peace. To begin, we examine the work of the Palladian architects and designers and explore what makes Palladianism Palladian. We look at rococo houses, rooms and furniture, and the stylistic choices available to patrons. We turn to painting of the period (Gainsborough, Ramsay, Reynolds) and the following week we return to architecture by exploring neo-classicism in Britain. The final week looks at the greatest of England's early nineteenth-century painters: Turner and Constable. We explore the picturesque and sublime, and ask what role the Industrial Revolution had upon the perception of Englishness and the ideal English landscape. Literatur (in Auswahl – steht im Semesterapparat!): Peter Sutton, ed. The Age of Rubens (Boston, 1993); Christopher Brown, Van Dyck (Oxford, 1982) - Christopher Brown and Hans Vlieghe, Van Dyck, 1599–1641, (München, 1999); Vaughan Hart, Inigo Jones: the Architect of Kings, (New Haven, 2011); Vaughan Hart, Nicholas Hawksmoor: Rebuilding Ancient Wonders, (New Haven, 2002); Sir Christopher Wren, Parentalia, (London, 1750) (electronic); John D Hunt, William Kent: Landscape Garden Designer; an Assessment and Catalogue of his Designs (London, 1987); Megan Aldrich, Gothic Revival, (London, 1994); Kenneth Clark, The Gothic Revival (London, 1973); John Hayes, The Landscape Paintings of Thomas Gainsborough (London, 1982); Michael Rosenthal, Thomas Gainsborough: 1727–1788, (London, 2002); Iris Wien, Joshua Reynolds (München, 2009); Desmond Shawe-Taylor, The Georgians: Eighteenth Century Portraiture and Society (London, 1990); Eileen Harris, The Genius of Robert Adam, (New Haven, 2001);David King, The Complete Work of Robert Adam (Oxford, 2001); John M Robinson, James Wyatt: 1746–1813, (New Haven, 2012; Jonathan Clarkson, Constable, (London, 2010); Judy C Ivy, Constable and the Critics, (Woodbridge, 1991); Ronald Paulson, Literary Landscape: Turner and Constable (New Haven, 1982); Ian Warrell, Turner Inspired in the Light of Claude (New Haven, 2012); Andrew Wilton, William Turner: Leben und Werk (Leipzig, 2006). Bemerkung Der Termin Freitags - Übung: Englisch als Wissenschaftssprache - kann auch unabhängig von den übrigen Veranstaltungen besucht werden. Die Seminare des Studiengangs Kunstwissenschaft sind teilnehmerbeschränkt. Daher ist eine Online-Anmeldung über HIS/POS zwingend notwendig. Diese ist im Zeitraum vom 26.09.2012, 08:00:00 bis zum einschließlich 17.10.2012, 23:59:00 möglich. Die Platzbestätigung wird nach Ablauf der Anmeldefrist per E-Mail verschickt. Der Besuch der ersten Sitzung ist obligatorisch, da der Platz ansonsten im Nachrückverfahren vergeben wird! Studierende, welche keine Platzbestätigung erhalten haben, können dennoch zu der ersten Sitzung erscheinen, um evtl. einen Nachrückerplatz zu erhalten. Modulzuordnung MA: Module I 2 und II 1 BA 2.0: Module I b, c und II b1 BA 1.0 Module I b1 und II b1, c Kunsthochschule Kassel Uni Kassel WiSe 2012/13 Dr.Des. Lindfield Ott Peter Dr.Des