Art History 253 - The Arts in Britain, 1714–1820
Arts in Britain
Fall
2023
02
4.00
John E. Moore
W 2:45 PM - 4:00 PM; M 3:05 PM - 4:20 PM
Smith College
ARH-253-02-202401
Hillyer 109
jmoore@smith.edu
Artistic production under the first three Hanoverian kings of Great Britain. Topics include royal patronage; urban developments (London, Bath, Edinburgh); the English landscape garden; the English country house and its fittings; collecting and display; the Grand Tour; aesthetic movements (Gothic Revival, the Sublime, the Picturesque, Neoclassicism); artists’ training and careers (among others, the brothers Adam, Gainsborough, Hawskmoor, Hogarth, Reynolds, Roubiliac and Wright of Derby); maps, prints and books; center vs. periphery; and city vs. country. Reading assignments culled from primary and secondary sources; including travel and epistolary literature. Counts for ARU