Tutor information
Jan Cox
Dr Jan Cox has been awarded a BA (Hons) by Oxford Brookes University, an MA from Bristol, and a PhD from the University of Leeds (Nordic Art). He specialises in nineteenth-century European art and British art of the early twentieth-century.
Courses
Learn how Manet, Gauguin, Cézanne & Van Gogh horrified public opinion at the 1910 exhibition 'Manet and the Post-Impressionists'. An important moment in the history of British art, it brought London face-to-face with new developments in French painting.
Explore the turbulent, rebellious, and innovative progress of art in Britain since 1940, from Francis Bacon to the Brit-Pack with this hybrid lecture series.
From Paul Nash to Eric Ravilious, Leonard Rosoman and Evelyn Dunbar, examine pictures made during the Second World War in Britain alongside depictions of the home front and military action in this hybrid lecture.
Explore the 1951 Festival of Britain, from the Skylon to the Dome of Discovery and sculptures by Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth in this hybrid lecture.
From Lucian Freud to Keith Vaughan, examine four key artists who endured the 1950s in Britain and created a lasting impact in the history of British art with this hybrid lecture.
Examine British paintings of the 1950s and 60s, including Peter Blake and David Hockney's 'Pop Art', with this hybrid lecture.
Gustave Courbet was one of the most radical artists of the nineteenth century. Learn about his exemplary works, such as the large 'Burial at Ornans,' painted after the 1848 revolution, and the portraits and controversial nudes he exhibited at the Salon.
Jean-François Millet will feature in a major exhibition at the National Gallery. Discover the artist who put representations of the poorest of rural workers on the walls of the elite Paris Salon, among them his famous 'The Gleaners' and 'The Sower.'