This course opens up a rich archive of nineteenth to early twentieth century art in Australia and Europe. Drawing together genres and themes in Victorian art and design, the course explores changes from historicist and narrative art to the Pre-Raphaelites and the Aesthetes, and exoticism, impressionism and post-impressionism. Central to these movements is the transitions made from rule based societies to industrialised ones, and the ways the shifts were expressed in constructions of nature and culture, history and myth, and the arts and crafts.

 The role of patronage, the institutionalisation of taste, the commercial machinations of colonial society, and approaches to fostering art education are examined for their significance on shaping Australian art.

1,500 word tutorial paper (30%), 2,500 word essay (50%) and image test (20%).

20 hours of lectures and one 1-hour tutorial per week

Introduction to Art History ARTH1002 and Introduction to Modern Art ARTH1003 or permission of the Coordinator.

• Rosenblum, Robert, Art of the Nineteenth Century: Painting and Sculpture, Thames & Hudson, London, 1984
• Smith, Bernard, Documents in Art and Taste in Australia 1770-1914, Melbourne University Press, 1975
• Trumble, Angus (ed.) Love and Death: Art in the Age of Queen Victoria, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 2002