AH4222 Art, Theatre and Performance in France 1600-1800

2024 to 2025 Semester 2

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Key module information

SCOTCAT credits

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SCQF level

SCQF level 10

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Availability restrictions

Not automatically available to General Degree students

Planned timetable

tba

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Module coordinator

Dr M T Knowles

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Module Staff

Dr Marika Knowles

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Module description

This module introduces students to major figures in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century French figure-based art (Jacques Callot, Nicolas Poussin, Antoine Watteau, Jean-Baptise Greuze, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, François Boucher, Elizabeth Vigée-LeBrun, and Jacques Louis David), with particular attention paid to instances of intersection between visual art and theatrical and performative practices. During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, French artists borrowed subjects, characters, and compositional strategies from contemporary theater. In addition, theater provided models for performative practices of social identity, whereby individuals used performance to lay claim to desired social roles. Lectures will examine the theme of performance in French visual art and social life, the relationship between French classical theater and history painting, and the dialogue between the theatrical dÚcor and the composition of painting.

Relationship to other modules

Pre-requisites

BEFORE TAKING THIS MODULE YOU MUST ( PASS AH1001 OR PASS AH1003 ) AND PASS AH2001 AND PASS AH2002

Assessment pattern

Coursework = 100%

Re-assessment