Course Details in 2028/29 Session

Module Title	LI Post-War: Art in Britain After the Second World War
School	Lan, Cult, Art Hist & Music
Department	Art Hist, Cur and Vis Studies
Module Code	10 30805
Module Lead	Dr Gregory Salter
Level	Intermediate Level
Credits	20
Semester	Semester 1
Pre-requisites
Co-requisites
Restrictions	None
Contact Hours	Lecture-10 hours Seminar-20 hours Guided independent study-170 hours Total: 200 hours
Exclusions
Description	This module explores art in Britain in the period after the Second World War. It traces art’s relationship to post-war reconstruction, from artists who engaged explicitly and publicly with the experience of war and the spirit of reconstruction to those who developed more private or personal responses in this period. It considers how art can help us to understand the temporally unstable experience of reconstruction, making visible the multiplicity and highly contested nature of this extended period of British history; it also asks what role art might have served for those caught up in post-war reconstruction. It explores how artists engaged with questions of politics, national identity, gender, sexuality, and migration in this period. Artists include Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth, Francis Bacon, Frank Auerbach, Lucian Freud, Richard Hamilton, Pauline Boty, Eduardo Paolozzi, Oscar Kokoschka, Victor Pasmore, Anwar Jalal Shemza, Frank Bowling, David Hockney, Prunella Clough, and Bridget Riley.
Learning Outcomes	By the end of the module students should be able to: exhibit an in-depth knowledge of the key artistic practices in Britain after the Second World War. exhibit an understanding of the place of those practices in the wider cultural and social context of post-war Britain. display a sound knowledge of the relevant critical debates over the question of how to interpret them. apply knowledge of those debates to the analysis of individual artists and works of art. identity primary and secondary sources relevant to the understanding and interpretation of art in post-war Britain and subject them to critical analysis.
Assessment	30805-01 : 4000 word essay : Coursework (100%)
Assessment Methods & Exceptions	Assessment: One 4,000-word essay (100%) Reassessment: Re-submission of 4,000-word essay (100%)
Other	Optional visits, as arranged by tutors
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