Radical Modernism: British Art and Literature from the Pre-Raphaelites to the Bloomsbury Group summer course in Oxford, by Lady Margaret Hall University of Oxford.
From the late 19th into the 20th century, British artists and academics set out to radically transform art, literature, and society. Originating alongside the Oxford Movement, the Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood believed in a new medievalism, which infused their paintings, poetry, and way of life. Emerging in the wake of the Romantics and Impressionists, artists like Edward Burne-Jones, Williams Morris, John Everett Millais, Dante Gabriel Rosetti and William Holman Hunt, produced extraordinary artworks rooted in new ways of seeing truth and beauty. They received the support of Oxford thinkers like John Ruskin, who championed their vision and wrote highly influential art criticism. Their radical legacy continued with Slade artists like David Bomberg, Paul Nash, and Stanley Spencer, who embraced Surrealism and Cubism while confronting the horrors of war. The Bloomsbury Group, with writers like Virginia Woolf and Roger Fry, and painters like Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant, celebrated ‘art for art’s sake’ and rejected bourgeois, conventional expectations.
In this very special course, students benefit from access to and engagement with the extraordinary collection in the Ashmolean and other local sites, learning from direct encounters with treasures of modern British art. With lectures will be delivered by Oxford academics and field-leading experts, you will examine the art and literature of the period and take part in unique site visits. You also have the opportunity to visit auction houses and galleries to learn from specialists about the art world today and the place of British modernism in the contemporary market.
LMH Summer Programmes are designed and delivered by experienced academics from Lady Margaret Hall and across the University of Oxford, and are taught using the Oxford teaching model, which emphasises personalised small-group learning.
In a series of thought-provoking lectures and lively seminar discussions you will learn about cutting-edge research, expand your core knowledge, and explore new ideas and concepts among peers with diverse international perspectives and academic backgrounds.
Tutorials, the conclusion of each week’s study, are an intellectual thrill. They are a unique opportunity for focused and personalised attention from an expert academic and a space for enthusiastic debate of important ideas. Alongside no more than two to three other students, you will present and discuss your work, accept constructive criticism, and engage with the ideas of your fellow students. These rigorous academic discussions help develop and facilitate learning in a way that cannot be done with lectures alone.
On a three-week LMH Summer Programme students produce one piece of assessed work every week, which is submitted to the tutor and then discussed in a tutorial. At the end of each week you will receive a percentage grade for your submitted work. Each week’s work counts for a third of your final percentage grade, so your final grade is an average of the mark received for each piece of work. Students who stay for six or nine weeks will receive a separate grade for each 3-week course.
Lady Margaret Hall will provide a transcript of your assessed work, and can send this directly to your home institution if required. LMH Summer Programmes are designed to be eligible for academic credit, and we will communicate with your home institution to facilitate this as needed. As a guide, we recommend the award of 15 CATS / 7.5 ECTS / 4 US Credits for each 3-week course.
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