Tutor information
David Morgan
David Morgan has taught art and architectural history for the Department since 2004. He has also taught courses for Birkbeck College, University of London, and for the WEA. His recent publications have centred upon the history of British visual satire.
Courses
This course is designed to enable you to 'read' the architecture of the Western world in a critically informed way.
Beginning with the vital structural innovations of the late Victorian era, this course traces the rise and spread of modernism in European and American architecture, and concludes by examining contemporary architecture and future possibilities.
This summer school will explore the rich and distinctive legacy of Venetian art and architecture, from the late medieval period until the present day – from Bellini to the Biennale.
This course is designed to enable you to 'read' the architecture of the Western world in a critically informed way.
Join us to explore the rich and dazzling architecture of the Italian Renaissance in three key cities. We will investigate the differing ways in which the classical styles of the Renaissance found expression in Florence, Rome and Venice.
Beginning with the vital structural innovations of the late Victorian era, this course traces the rise and spread of modernism in European and American architecture, and concludes by examining contemporary architecture and future possibilities.
This course is designed to enable you to 'read' the architecture of the Western world in a critically informed way.
Explore the rich and evolving history of photography, from its earliest origins in Georgian France and England, to the present day. How did photography become established as a serious art form in its own right, and what is its future?
This lecture series will chart the broad history of painting and sculpture in Britain, from the Industrial Revolution to the 1930s: from the idyllic rural landscapes of Constable to the hard-edged Modernist abstractions of Hepworth and Moore.
This lecture will explore the contrasting approaches to landscape painting taken by Constable and Turner. Were the gentle Suffolk landscapes of Constable as idyllic as they at first appear? And what drove Turner’s fascination with the immensity of nature?
Investigate the complex relationship between the established academic arts of the mid-19th century, and the innovations of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. Artists whose work will feature include Millais, Rossetti and Hunt. Join in Oxford or watch online.
Should painters depict moral subjects in sharp-edged clarity? Or should painting echo the abstractions of music in its depictions of the modern industrial world? This lecture will address these questions, with reference to the Ruskin-Whistler controversy.
Explore British art during the interwar period. How did British artists react to the arrival of Surrealism in Britain? Featured artists include Barbara Hepworth, Paul Nash and Henry Moore. Part of the 'Art in Britain' lecture series.
This is a dynamic multi-media day-school in which we will explore the evolution of popular culture from the 1950s to the present day, from the earliest stirrings of rock’n’roll youth culture, to the social media-saturated anxieties of our own time.
Join us to explore the many facets of Rembrandt's life and work. We will chart his progress from the smoothly finished haut bourgeois portraits of his earlier career to the solitary, densely textured impasto introspections of his final years.