Civilisation GB (EAD)

Titre : Creative Britain, British art and culture after the neoliberal turn, 1979-today

In this course, we will see how Britain has tried to nurture cultural democracy in its own specific way. In order to understand this specificity, we will look into the lingering tensions between the objectives of excellence and of accessibility which have persisted in a country with a distinctive cultural history. The watershed of the 1980s will be our focus to explore these institutional and aesthetic aspects of British artistic life, when the country was branded as “creative Britain” and the creative industries became a major economic and political stake. We will look into the new hybridized forms of funding to have emerged since 1979 and the way they have impacted the national artistic ecosystem and its standing on the world stage. We will also look into the more specifically aesthetic resonances these changes might have had on the art itself by studying the work of Tracey Emin, Antony Gormley, Anish Kapoor, Grayson Perry, Jeremy Deller, Rachel Whiteread or Damien Hirst (to name but a few).

Enrichir son bagage culturel, acquérir une connaissance solide des grandes politiques culturelles britanniques du tournant du siècle, et travailler sur des sources primaires.

-          Session 1 : un écrit de 2h / Exceptional exam session 1: one two-hour written exam

-          Session 2 : un écrit de 2h / session 2: one two-hour written exam

Dans le cadre de cet EC, l’usage de l’IA pour aider à la réalisation des travaux de contrôle continu soumis à évaluation est interdit. Vous n’avez pas le droit de faire appel à une IA générative à des fins de documentation, recherche d’idées, construction, rédaction ou édition (hors usages de recherche web augmentée, de correction orthographique et syntaxique).

Anglais C1

Analyser un document en le replaçant dans son contexte historique, géographique et culturel.

Développer une argumentation avec esprit critique.

Robert Hewison, Cultural Capital: The Rise and Fall of Creative Britain, Verso, 2014.

Justin O’Connor. Culture is not an Industry. Reclaiming Art and Culture for the Common Good. Manchester University Press, 2024.

Grant Pooke, Contemporary British Art. An Introduction. Routledge, 2011. (Intro and chapter 1)

Chin-tao Wu, Privatising Culture. Corporate Art Intervention Since the 1980s, Verso, 2003.

These texts and more will be handed out in class..