Concerning the Modern’:

Concerning the Modern’: This essay is designed to examine the degree to which you are able to understand and engage with key themes explored on the Modernities module. It is also designed to examine your ability to engage effectively with independent research you have carried out, and to cite these sources accurately and appropriately in the main body of your essay, in your footnotes and in your bibliography. Please follow the following guide when preparing and writing your essay. 1. Select an example of art or visual culture of your own choice. It might be a work referred to in the lectures or in one of the set texts but it doesn’t need to be. Write about your chosen example in relation to one of the three major themes explored on the module: Modernity and Rationality, Protest, and Modernity and the Unsayable in Art. While you should focus discussion on a single case, you are of course free to make comparison with other works. Question; Choose a work by Mary Cassatt or Berthe Morisot and discuss it with reference to the ways in which female and male artists negotiated the social sphere. 2. In addressing these questions you are expected to carry out appropriately wide ranging research on and around your chosen image, and to draw on and distinguish between different interpretations and debates. However, when writing up your findings, be selective and focused in your approach. Don’t try to cover too much ground, thus sacrificing depth for breadth. 3. Cite your sources accurately in footnotes and bibliography. You must also include a visual image of the work you are discussing, again properly referenced. References (that need to be used) Griselda Pollock, ‘Modernity and the Spaces of Femininity’ [1988], in The Visual Culture Reader, ed. Nicholas Mirzoeff, London and New York: Routledge, 1998, pp. 74-84. T.J. Clark, ‘On the Social History of Art’ [1973], in Modern Art and Modernism: A Critical Anthology, eds. Francis Frascina and Charles Harrison, London: Paul Chapman Publishing, 1982, pp. 249-258. Gordon, Robert, and Andrew Forge. Degas. Paris: Flammarion, 1988 Clark, T. J. The Painting of Modern Life: Paris in the Art of Manet and His Followers. New York: Knopf, 1985. Pollock, Griselda. Vision and Difference: Femininity, Feminism and Histories of Art. New York: Routledge, 1988 Jenks, Chris. Visual Culture. London: Routledge, 1995. 146. Garb, Tamar. “Gender and Representation.” Modernity and Modernism: French Painting in the Nineteenth Century. New Haven CT: Yale University Press, 1993. 219-290. Thompson, Heather. "The Female Impressionist as Flaneuse." 1999. http://prizedwriting.ucdavis.edu/past/1999-2000/the-female-impressionist-as-flaneuse Baudelaire, Charles. “The Painter of Modern Life.” My Heart Laid Bare and other Prose Writings. Ed. Peter Quennell. Trans. Norman Cameron. London: George Weidenfeld & Nicolson Limited, 1950. Garb, Tamar. “Gender and Representation.” Modernity and Modernism: French Painting in the Nineteenth Century. New Haven CT: Yale University Press, 1993.