Led by Justine Hopkins, freelance art historian

Tuesdays 12 April 2005 – 10 May 2005, 10.30–12.00

The second half of the nineteenth century was a period of unprecedented innovation and creativity in the spheres of art and literature. It was also a time in which artists and writers frequently came together intellectually and socially, sharing ideas, allegiances, approaches, and subject-matter. This course explores the interaction between some of the major figures in France and England. The first session examines the urban context in the work of Charles Dickens, Stéphane Mallarmé, James Abbott McNeill Whistler and Claude Monet. The second session investigates the Realist approach espoused by Emile Zola and taken up by Edouard Manet, Edgar Degas and Walter Sickert. Poetry, painting and music are considered in relation to Mallarmé, Dante Rossetti, Charles Swinburne and Odilon Redon. The final session explores realistic and fantastical representations of Venice by writers like John Ruskin, Marcel Proust and Henry James and by artists such as JMW Turner, Whistler and Monet.

Tate Britain  Manton Studio
£55 (£40 concessions), booking required
Price includes entry to the exhibition

    

This event is related to the Turner Whistler Monet exhibition