On this page, you'll find a curated collection of our optional Advanced Modules, each tailored to specific genres. These modules become available for purchase after you've completed your first two assignments successfully. Every Advanced Module comprises one module and one assignment, and upon successful completion, you can download a certificate of achievement.
£93.75
This module gives you greater insight and more in depth knowledge of Colonial Art finding its own voice in the Great Southern Land. You will take a close look at the history of Australian Art and the domestic Art Market, from the first explorers recording their escapades to present-day artists adding to a national heritage. This module will examine the most significant Australian artists, including indigenous artists and explain the structures and styles over the last 200 odd years. The author describes how the formative ideas of the colonial spirit evolved into the current national identity.
Author : Barry Pearce
Terra Australis and the European Imagination
First Fleet and the Art of Necessity
Squatters, Explorers, Gold and Sheep
Marvellous Melbourne, Sensuous Sydney
Modernism Awakens
Beyond Modernism, and the Academy of the Global
Paradigms Lost
£93.75
This module looks at the art of North America, from early explorers colonies to nationhood and international recognition. The artist developing the increasing need for independence from the old world of Europe. The module examines the most significant artists in America and Canada, including native art and its influences, explaining the structures and styles over the last 400 odd years pivotal to the creation of their national identities.
Authors
America: National Identity and National Destiny
Early settlement to 1680: The Protestant colonies of the Northeast; the plantation South; and the Spanish Southwest
Transatlantic Reputations
Revolution and Republic
Genre Painting: Scenes of Everyday Life
Romanticism and the Turn Toward Private Imagination
Nationalism and Landscape Painting
Economic Expansion, Cosmopolitanism, and Empire
Expatriate Americans in Europe
The Early 20th Century: The “Ash Can” Artists
The Reception of European Modernism and the Emergance of East Village Bohemia
American Scene Painting between the Wars
The New Deal Government Programs for the Arts
Beyond ‘Social Realism’
The “Wild” West: Art in Los Angeles and San Francisco
The Art of the United States: Conclustion
Canada: United Colonies, Nationhood and International Recognition Canadian Art Before and After 1867
Impressionism in Canada
Canadian Art in the Twentieth Century: The War Program, The Group of Seven and Abstract Art in English and French Canada
The Group of Seven and Emily Carr
Beaver Hall, The Canadian Group of Painters,The Contemporary Arts Society
French Nationalism and the Quiet Revolution: Les Automatistes, The Pasticien Movement, Painters Eleven, Regina Five and Indigenous Art
1967 One Hundred Years After Confederation: Towards the Art of Today
Further Reading
Where to See
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