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The Art of the Sublime - Taster Lecture Recording
Online course
+44 (0)20 7942 2000
Thinking about an online course? Try a free one-hour art history lecture recording that you can enjoy when it suits you best. Simply sign up to receive your recording link and join V&A Academy Course Director Dr Kathy McLauchlan for a free online lecture to discover more about about Edmund Burke's theory of the sublime and how this advanced a new way to appreciate the natural world in the late 18th century.
Discover why in place of classical ideals of beauty and harmony, the sublime looked to nature in its most violent and overwhelming manifestations - storms, waterfalls, mountains, volcanos - which, if viewed from a safe distance, might induce a kind of aestheticized terror. This lecture explores the impact of the sublime in the work of artists including Turner, De Loutherbourg and Wright. At the same time you will get to know the V&A Academy learning platform.
Discover why in place of classical ideals of beauty and harmony, the sublime looked to nature in its most violent and overwhelming manifestations - storms, waterfalls, mountains, volcanos - which, if viewed from a safe distance, might induce a kind of aestheticized terror. This lecture explores the impact of the sublime in the work of artists including Turner, De Loutherbourg and Wright. At the same time you will get to know the V&A Academy learning platform.
Simply sign up to the V&A Academy newsletter by clicking 'book now'. Once signed up you will receive the viewing link in your welcome email within 24 hours. You will have access to the recording of this taster lecture for a limited time.
Please note, this taster lecture recording cannot be booked via phone or via the shopping basket. For any questions please get in touch via courses@vam.ac.uk.
V&A Academy Course Director
Dr Kathy McKLauchlan
Dr Kathy McLauchlan, graduated at Oxford University and the Courtauld Institute. In 2001 she completed a PhD thesis on French painters in Rome during the 19th century. A lecturer specialising in 19th-century art history, she is currently a course director at the Victoria & Albert Museum.
It is an enormous treat for me to be able to attend these courses online. The online format works brilliantly for me! V&A Academy Online Learner
Course overview
This taster lecture links links to the art history courses led by Kathy McLauchlan who is the Course Director of our 12-weeks online course Arts of the 18th Century Europe: Rococo to Romanticism starting Thursday 26 September and Classicism: Antiquity to Christianity starting Monday 23 September. This Autumn term you will be able to join Dr Kathy McLauchlan in-person for the 12 week course Age of Michelangelo: Arts of the 16th Century Europe starting Wednesday 25 September.
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Online course: The Art of the Sublime - Taster Lecture Recording
15 August 2024 - 15 October 2024
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Header image: Main image: Turner Life-Boat and Manby Apparatus going off to a Stranded Vessel Making Signal c1831 (Museum Nr. FA.211[0]); second image: Oil painting, The Falls of the Rhine at Schaffhausen', Philip James de Loutherbourg, 1788 (Museum Nr. 1028-1886) third image: Watercolour by John Robert Cozens, 'A Cavern in the Campagna, Rome', 1778 (Museum Nr. 3020-1876)