Peter Cooke French Studies University of Manchester

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Peter CookeFrench StudiesUniversity of
Manchester

• Visual arts in undergraduate teaching

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French Art

• Team-taught Second-Year optional course
• One semester 10 credits
• Introduction to French painting
• From Renaissance to twentieth century
• Set text E.H. Gombrich, The Story of Art

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Key concepts and approaches

• Representation
• Visual semiotics
• Genres
• Iconography
• Historical context

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Painted Tales Three French History Painters

• Research-led Final-Year optional course
• One semester 10 credits
• Jacques-Louis David
• Eugène Delacroix
• Gustave Moreau
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Basic concepts and approaches

• The humanist theory ut pictura poesis
• Narrative techniques
• Iconography
• Theatricality
• Text-images relations
• Analysis of individual paintings

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