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Period Band C

The Cultures of Sculpture, c 1760-1914

Tutor: Sarah Burnage

The aim of this module is to introduce students to the various cultures of sculpture in Britain, Europe and America from c.1760 to c.1914. The course will proceed historically, and will be concerned with a sequence of stylistically innovative movements, which in any one year, might include examples ranging from the baroque, through neoclassicism, romanticism, neo-Gothicism, realism, Pre-Raphaelitism, and the New Sculpture, through to Impressionism, Symbolism, and Vorticism.

The course may also be concerned with the European and American reception, in the same period, of works of historic and contemporary sculpture from across the world, in museological, popular and vanguard forms of culture. The course will be self-consciously object-focussed in methodology, but with a complementary concern to overturn the pieties and conventional stories told in the limited extant historiography.