Art and visual culture: medieval to modern

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Art and visual culture: medieval to modern provided by OpenLearn is a comprehensive online course, which lasts for 10 hours worth of material. Upon completion of the course, you can receive an e-certificate from OpenLearn. The course is taught in Englishand is Free Certificate. Visit the course page at OpenLearn for detailed price information.

Overview
  • What is art? What is visual culture? How have they changed through history? This free course, Art and visual culture: medieval to modern, explores the fundamental issues raised by the study of ...

Syllabus
    • Introduction
    • Learning outcomes
    • 1 Medieval to Renaissance
    • 1 Medieval to Renaissance
    • 1.1 Art, visual culture and skill
    • Art and ‘ars’
    • Medieval and Renaissance visual culture
    • Art and adornment
    • Artistic quality
    • Reputation and skill
    • Alberti on painting
    • The Medici as patrons and collectors
    • 1.2 Artists, patrons and workshops
    • Painting, the liberal arts and humanism
    • Artists and patrons
    • Patterns of artistic employment: workshop, guild and court employment
    • 2 Academy to avant-garde
    • 2 Academy to avant-garde
    • 2.1 From function to autonomy
    • Bürger’s functions of art: the sacral
    • Bürger’s functions of art: the courtly
    • Bürger’s functions of art: bourgeois art
    • 2.2 From the Baroque to Romanticism
    • Baroque ‘style’
    • Rococo ‘style’
    • Neo-classical ‘style’
    • 2.3 From patronage to the public sphere
    • Patronage
    • From patronage to the open market
    • Habermas and the public sphere
    • The art museum and the painting of current events
    • 3 Modernity to globalisation
    • 3 Modernity to globalisation
    • 3.1 Autonomy and modernity
    • Greenberg and autonomy
    • The emergence of modern art in Paris
    • Responses to the modern world
    • 3.2 National, international, cosmopolitan
    • Contradictions
    • A move to New York
    • The local and the global
    • Conclusion
    • References
    • Acknowledgements