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
Examine the major concerns of artists such as Cézanne, Monet, Manet and Degas and their intimate interaction with modern life.
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?
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.
Explore how Scandinavia and Finland produced some of the most talented artists in Europe in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Consider the earliest full manifestations of European Modernism in British art. Walter Sickert, Harold Gilman, Roger Fry, Mark Gertler and Stanislawa de Karlowska will be discussed. Part of the 'Art in Britain: Constable to Henry Moore' lecture series.
This lecture will focus on the hard-edged Modernism of the Vorticist group, and the various ways in which British artists responded to the advent of Cubism and the First World War. Featured artists include Wyndham Lewis, Jacob Epstein and C.R.W Nevinson.
An exploration of the artistic movement that came to embrace both art and music, looking at the major visual and musical works of the Impressionists, and tracing the roots of this aesthetic upheaval that laid the foundations for modernism in the arts.
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.
Discover how Ravilious, Nash and Spencer immersed themselves in the British landscape, capturing the essence of the countryside in their artworks.
Examine the major concerns of artists such as Cézanne, Monet, Manet and Degas and their intimate interaction with modern life.
The first Impressionist exhibition was in 1874. We look at fifty years of art that led to the birth of Impressionism: Ingres and Delacroix, the impact of the Barbizon School, Courbet, Daubigny and others, concluding with the Impressionists themselves.
Explore art in Paris in the 1920s – a vibrant Jazz Age that featured both modernity and nostalgia, innovation and tradition. Discussions will include Picasso, Matisse, Surrealism, Art Deco, Josephine Baker, the School of Paris, and Man Ray.
Camille Pissarro, Gustave Caillebotte and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec were all outsiders in 19th century France. Each left us with a unique body of exceptional Impressionist artworks, some of which are held in Oxford’s own Ashmolean Museum.
Examine the major concerns of artists such as Cézanne, Monet, Manet and Degas and their intimate interaction with modern life.