Workers Educational Association

Workers’ Educational Association The UK’s largest voluntary sector provider of adult learning Course Outline This course outline describes what will be covered in your course. It also sets out what you should expect to learn. There will be an opportunity for course members to discuss the course content with the tutor. Course Title Art History: English Artists – Samuel Palmer to Graham Sutherland

Course ID C2416244 Tutor Dr Alice Strickland Start date 20/09/2012 Day(s)/time(s) Thursday 10am No. of sessions 20 Hours per session 2 Fees £150 Venue St Johns Church Community Centre, Crawford Avenue, Wembley, HA0 2HX Branch/Partner Wembley-Brent Branch/Partner David Lancy 020 8907 9388 [email protected] contact details Sheila Peckett 020 8907 7863 Publicity Description We will explore the art of Samuel Palmer and the Ancients before looking at the Romantics and Pre-Raphaelites. Moving into the 20th century will lead us to Wyndham Lewis and the Vorticists and onto Ben Nicholson and the 7&5 Society. Course Aims

To develop a broad narrative of English artists from Samuel Palmer in the 1830s to Graham Sutherland in the 1940s. The course will combine biography and social contexts in ways that will ground further study and research for learners throughout the course. Main Topics Covered TERM 1 1. Introduction to the course 2. A country idyll: Samuel Palmer and the Ancients 3. JMW Turner and the Romantics 4. The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and Dante Gabriel Rossetti 5. Sisters of the brush: Lady Butler and Victorian Women Artists 6. Gallery visit – Tate Britain 7. Philip Wilson Steer and the New English Art Club 8. Capturing the music hall: Walter Sickert and the Camden Town Group 9. The art of Cornwall: Stanhope Forbes and the Newlyn School 10. End of term activities and introduction to 20th century English artists TERM 2 1. Bloomsbury artists: Roger Fry and the Omega Workshops 2. Artistic siblings: Augustus and Gwen John 3. BLAST: Wyndham Lewis and the Vorticists 4. The Art of Nina Hamnett and London’s Bohemia 5. A Surrealist Dream: Roland Penrose and The English Surrealists 6. Ben Nicholson and the 7 & 5 Society, Paul Nash and Unit One 7. Gallery visit – Courtauld Gallery 8. War Art: the artists of World War I and World II 9. Modern Romantics: Stanley Spencer and the Neo-Romantics 10. Conclusion of course

Pre-course preparation, reading, internet research etc. Whilst reading is not mandatory, it will enhance your enjoyment of the course if you do some reading in preparation for, and throughout, the course. Below is a short list of books for those keen to do some preparatory reading. More relevant titles will be given as the course progresses. TITLE AUTHOR PUBLISHER Mysterious wisdom: The Life and Rachel Campbell-Johnstone Bloomsbury Work of Samuel Palmer

JMW Turner Samuel Smiles Tate

The Art of the Pre-Raphaelites Elizabeth Prettejohn Tate

Romantic Moderns Alexandra Harris Thames and Hudson Essential costs/materials None Entry Requirements/Level None Title of qualification to Level 3 be gained (if any) Awarding Body (if any) N/A Teaching and learning methods used Each week will combine a talk on a pre-planned subject, using PowerPoint, with open group discussion based on worksheets. A handout will also be given each week with notes on the subject covered and further suggested reading and galleries to see the works looked at. Learning Outcomes By the end of the course learners will be able to: 1. Distinguish the work of different English artists 2. Discuss the links between individual artists and their social contexts 3. Relate a broad narrative of British art c.1830-1940 4. Recognise a variety of research approaches for making art histories 5. Use research methods to develop independent interests

How will you know you are learning? Each session will be made up of a detailed talk using visual materials which will lead to further close discussion of the week’s theme. Group discussion will be based on worksheets which will look at individual works of art. Learners will be encouraged to share responses and knowledge and develop individual interests. Suggested Further Study and Progression Routes Learners will be able to build on this study of art by undertaking further WEA courses. Other history of art courses include Birkbeck and the Open University and one-off lectures at the Courtauld Institute of Art, the Royal Academy and Tate. Brief tutor profile Dr Alice Strickland read History at Exeter University and holds a PhD in History of art on women war artists. She lectures and writes on 20th century British artists and their art education. Most recently she has given papers at the Malvern Festival, Tate Britain and the Dame Laura Knight Society. She has recently contributed to a book on British art education to be published by Ashgate in 2013.

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WEA London and Southern Regions' Support Centre 57 Riverside 2, Sir Thomas Longley Road, Rochester, Kent ME2 4DP Tel: 01634 298600 Fax: 01634 298601 email: [email protected] The Workers' Educational Association (WEA) is a charity registered in England and Wales (number 1112775) and in Scotland (number SC039239) and a company limited by guarantee registered in England and Wales (number 2806910). Registered address: 4 Luke Street, London, EC2A 4XW. www.wea.org.uk Services for Learners contains information about support and progression opportunities for learners and will be made available to you when you start your course. However, if you would like to receive a copy before the start of your course, please telephone the learner enquiry, freephone line on 0800 328 1060.

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You can now enrol and pay online. Go to: www.wea.org.uk

WEA London and Southern Regions' Support Centre 57 Riverside 2, Sir Thomas Longley Road, Rochester, Kent ME2 4DP Tel: 01634 298600 Fax: 01634 298601 email: [email protected] The Workers' Educational Association (WEA) is a charity registered in England and Wales (number 1112775) and in Scotland (number SC039239) and a company limited by guarantee registered in England and Wales (number 2806910). Registered address: 4 Luke Street, London, EC2A 4XW. www.wea.org.uk