Cambridge

Course Description: Despite the classic image of the all-male cigar-chomping Hollywood moguls of yesteryear, many of the true early pioneers of the art and science of film were women. Directors, writers, producers – even studio heads – actors, technicians and stunt performers, they played a huge role in creating the most important global industry of the twentieth century, without ever getting their names on the door. Come and celebrate a small handful of their stories and find out why you’ve never heard of them – and why you should have.

Course Description: The course analyses the historical and artistic development of landscape painting; identifying different categories of landscape from Arcadian to Apocalyptic, from the panoramic to the particular and from the romantic to the symbolic. It also examines the role and function of the landscape through the centuries; and discusses differing approaches of artists to the subject, including Claude Lorrain, Poussin, Ruisdael, Constable, Turner, Monet, Cézanne, Nash.