This module explores the importance of revolution, the sublime, the gothic, landscape and imagination as motive forces in the making of art and culture.
By examining the notion that Classicism and Romanticism are opposites, as the reaction of many 19th century artists to 18th century Enlightenment would appear to demonstrate, the module aims to investigate notions such as wilderness, fantasy, heroism and nationalism, and to initiate a discourse between the art of the present day and that of 19th century romanticism.
