Art History Short Course - Hockney and Pop Art: Insider and Outsider
Three Tuesday Evening Sessions:
10 November, 7pm - 9pm
17 November, 7pm - 9pm
24 November, 7pm - 9pm
A short Art History Course with Tutor Steve Roberts, focusing on a particular topic in more depth.
Week 1 - Hockney and the UK Pop Art Movement
Week 2 - Hockey: Insider and Outsider
Week 3 - David Hockney 's Art
This 3 week course will consider how David Hockney was defined as a Pop Artist on the one hand, but how Hockney and others rejected this label. He was both inside and outside the 'art establishment' of the 1960's.
Week 1: We will look at the beginnings of Pop Art in Britain, Hockney 's origins, and how he was connected to the movement in the early 60's and his move to America in 1964.
Week 2: We will look at how his work both defined and rejected the Pop Art label - we will look his work of the period (1961-1969) and explore how his work both fitted in with, and went beyond the parameters of 'Pop Art'.
Week 3: We will explore Hockney 's work after the Pop Art period and look at how he developed his techniques and ideas across different media (painting, photography, and digital art).
Open to anyone with an interest in this topic.
£45.50 for the three-week course (cost includes booking fee).
Tutor: Steve Roberts – Biography
I graduated with a BA Hons in History of Art, Architecture and Design (2:1) in 1997, I have a PGCE (FE) with Keele University (1999), and gained a Masters Degree in Media and Cultural Studies with The Open University in 2009.
I taught History of Art and Contextual Studies between 2001 and 2004 at Leeds College of Art and Design and York College (including teaching undergraduate modules and dissertation supervision) and delivered an undergraduate Film Studies module at the University Gloucester University. I also taught Film, Media and Contextual Studies at Joseph Chamberlain and Birmingham Metropolitan Colleges in Birmingham between 2004 and 2013.
I have a broad knowledge and understanding of art historical periods , movements, artists and theory and also in film and media history and theory. I like to mix these together and throw in some popular culture/music history/literature for good measure!
