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Art History Lecture Package

with lecturer Capucine Galland, Wednesdays 6 - 8pm

Starts 24 Sept
200 British pounds
Great King Street

Available spots


Service Description

Dates: Wednesday 24th September to Wednesday 19th November no class 15th October All tea & coffee provided, these lectures take place in our professional model room with amazingly high quality imagery from our projector. Capucine is an expert speaker and these evenings are informal and at times interactive with audience participation... room for questions! This course examines key developments in contemporary art from the 1950s to today, emphasising the major methodological, thematic, and theoretical shifts that have shaped visual culture. It begins with post-war painting, from Abstract Expressionism to Art Brut, through the lens of modernist theory, particularly Clement Greenberg’s writings. The course then explores the rise of assemblage, détournement, and Pop Art as critiques of consumerism in the 1960s, followed by an analysis of Minimalism, Conceptual Art, and technologically driven practices such as video and cybernetics. Midway, the focus shifts to performative and feminist interventions that challenged institutional structures, leading into postmodern strategies like appropriation and pastiche through the work of the Pictures Generation. In the second semester, the course explores art from the 1990s onward in the context of globalisation, neoliberalism, and digital technology, including movements such as Post Human, Abject Art, Relational Aesthetics, and post-Internet practices, offering a broad view of contemporary visual expression.


Upcoming Sessions


Cancellation Policy

We will provide a 50% refund if you give written advance notice up to 30 days before the course start date. 0% refund 30 days before a course starts. Please note there is an administration fee of £5 payable in respect of such refunds to cover payment processing fees. You will need to inform a member of administration staff in writing by emailing EDS at info@edinburghdrawingschool.co.uk. Additionally, if you withdraw for any reason after the course has started you will not be entitled to a refund. We are a small business and we depend on every booking to ensure that classes can go ahead. If a tutor has to withdraw from teaching the scheduled course for any reason (medical/personal/professional) before the start of a scheduled course, during a scheduled course, if the course is 8 weeks long or scheduled as x3 terms of 8 weeks long each, The Edinburgh Drawing School will find a replacement tutor for the course designed by that tutor for The Edinburgh Drawing School. The course content will be the same as the originally booked course. A student will not be entitled to a refund should the school have no option but to find a replacement tutor. If a tutor leaves and starts work elsewhere, and a student prefers to take classes with them personally at the tutor's new workplace, that is at the discretion of the student and no refund is entitled to them or will be given. If a student is unable to attend a class due to medical/personal/professional reasons, then EDS must be informed immediately so that the tutor can be notified. If you are missing a class because you suspect that you have developed Covid-19, please let us know immediately so that we can alert fellow student and tutors. Non-attendance of classes/workshops does not automatically mean a refund, however EDS will assess the circumstance If a tutor cannot teach a class due to illness, the scheduled class will be covered by another tutor or the class will be postponed and rescheduled for the following week at the same time on the same day of the week. Make up classes are scheduled during the half term week, or in the week following the end of term. The Edinburgh Drawing School runs 8 week terms of scheduled classes, 9 weeks if including the half term and then 10 weeks to include a week at the end of term for any necessary make up classes. Thus, the business always completes it's contractual obligations of 8 scheduled classes to booked students. If a student cannot attend a make up class, no refund is due.


Contact Details

  • 13A Great King Street, Edinburgh, UK

    + 0131 556 0971

    info@edinburghdrawingschool.co.uk


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