Art History: Art and Ethics

4 sessions starting 14 June 2023.

Course Description:

This discussion course examines the fraught relationship between art and ethics, particularly in relation to public art and the display of art. It will examine the ethics of the making of art through issues such as whether the character, actions and beliefs of an artist should impact on the assessment of their work or how we can appreciate art which promotes ideas or ideologies we find ethically unacceptable. It also considers the ethics around issues of attribution and the extent to which those who are contributors to artistic creation are recognised.

Course Tutor:

Dr Miriam Gill has taught art history and history to mature students over a period of 20 years in a wide variety of institutions including Morley College, London as well as the universities of Birmingham, Nottingham, Oxford and Cambridge. She has worked for the Vaughan Centre for Lifelong Learning and at the former Vaughan College since 1998. She was the course director for the Certificates in Art History and Architectural History and has been a tutor for the part-time Certificate and BA in Humanities and Arts. She also teaches at Attenborough Arts Centre.