The Remix: New Histories of Twentieth-Century Art (Term Two)

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 393.

Modern Traditions: The Body

A joint Tate Modern and National Gallery course looking at representations of the body across the National Gallery collection and in the displays of the Nude/Body/Action suite at Tate Modern.

The first four sessions of the course will take place at the National Gallery and explore the way in which artists historically have used the body as a principal source of inspiration. The final four sessions at Tate Modern will concentrate on twentieth-century notions of the body, and the way in which traditional views of it have been revised.

As part of the course structure, one session will be devoted to practical life drawing to show the progression from looking to drawing to painting. No previous experience is required, and no special skills are necessary to participate in this part of the course. Fee £130 includes refreshments, Tate Modern folder, materials for drawing session.

This course explores current preoccupations in art and visual culture. Establishing relationships between past and present, the course identifies themes and debates in art during the period 1920-1960 and considers them from a contemporary perspective.

Possible parallels between the Surrealist interest in Freud's concept of the unconscious and art practice of the 1990s will be discussed, and attitudes to technology and the role of the artist in society will also be considered. In addition, Tate Modern's major spring exhibition Century City will raise the issues of urbanism and utopianism. Fee: £100.