This unit investigates the power of contrasts in the art and literature of the (mainly) British Grand Tour to Italy by articulating a changing sense of fundamental oppositions between here and there, then and now, over more than three centuries of travel. It addresses the works of outstanding writers and artists such as John Evelyn, Joseph Addison, Canaletto, Piranesi, Goethe, Stendhal, William Hazlitt, J. M. W. Turner, Samuel Palmer, Ruskin, Gustave Dor, William Gibson and John Cleese to understand how contrast serves as a fundamental instrument for finding and imposing cultural meaning though travel. The unit is interdisciplinary as well as intercultural in drawing on history,... -- Course Website
Prerequisites: MEMS2001 Classical Traditions and Transformations in Medieval and Early Modern Europe or any Level 2 History of Art core unit
