Course Description:
In this course we shall study the artistic practices, movements and institutions of the nineteenth century in close relation with the political, social and economic events of the period. The historical roots of way we perceive and comprehend our world today, artistically and otherwise, largely originate in the nineteenth century. For instance characteristic modes of exhibiting and viewing art in a museum context as well as the revolutionary artistic technologies of photography and film date to this period. Moreover, it was in the nineteenth century that a succession of revolutions in Europe, as well as the Civil War in America, resulted in the formation of nation states and national identities as we understand them today. These local political and cultural formations of Europe and America were aided by their colonial conquests of most parts of the globe. This global network accelerated the development of industrialization, capitalist enterprise, and cultural intermixing that characterizes our world today. As we focus on such vital, and tumultuous aspects of nineteenth century art and culture, we shall also consider the ways these shifts impacted artistic trends of the twentieth century.
Expectations:
Reading Assignments: The textbook for this class is: Eisenman Stephen F. ed. Nineteenth Century Art. A Critical History. Thames & Hudson, 1994.
Written Assignments: will consist of two papers OR two web-pages.
Class Participation: Your full participation is essential to the success of this course
Exams: A Midterm Exam and a Final Exam.
References:
Note: Look up your text-book, Eisenman Stephen F. ed. Nineteenth Century Art. A Critical History. pp. 365-367, for additional references.
Baudelaire, Charles. Painter of Modern Life and Other Essays. N 7445.B343
Berman, Marshall. All That is Solid Melts Into Air. The Experience of Modernity. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1982.
Boime, Albert. The Art of Exclusion. Representing Blacks in the Nineteenth Century. Washington D.C. : Smithsonian Institution Press, 1990.
Bryson, Norman. Tradition and Desire. From David to Delacroix. Cambridge, London: Cambridge University Press, 1984. (ND 547.5.R6 B 79 )
Clark, T.J. The Painting of Modern Life. Paris in the Art of Manet and His Followers. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1985. (ND 550.C55)
Hobsbawm E.J. The Age of Capital. 1848-1875. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1975.(D 359.H63 )
Hobsbawm E.J. The Age of Revolution. 1789-1848. New York: Praeger Publishers. (D299.H6)
Lubin David M. Picturing a Nation. Art and Social Change in Nineteenth-Century America. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994. umcp ND210.L83
McElroy, Guy. Facing History. The Black Image in American Art 1710-1940. (Exhibition Catalogue) N8232.M44
Parry, Ellwood. The Image of the Indian and the Black man in American Art. 1590-1900. New York: G.Braziller, 1974. (N6505.P29)
Pevsner, Nikolaus. Pioneers of Modern Design. From William Morris to Walter Gropius. Penguin Books, 1968. (First published under the title Pioneers of the Modern Movement, 1936.) ** N6450.P4
Ruskin, John. Lamp of Beauty. N7445.R835
The Frontier in American Culture: An Exhibition at the Newberry Library, August 26, 1994 - January 7, 1995. The Library; University of California Press, 1994. F596.W562
White, Harrison C. and Cynthia A. White. Canvases and Careers. Institutional Change in the French Painting World. Chicago. University of Chicago Press, 1993. N72.S6W53
Wichmann, Siegfried. Japonisme: The Japanese Influence on Western Art in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Harmony Books, 1981.
Williams, Rosalind. Dream Worlds. Mass Consumption in Late Nineteenth-Century France. Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1982. HC 280.C6W54
Wood, Paul, Francis Frascina, Jonathan Harris and Charles Harrison. ed. Modernity and Modernism. French Painting in the Nineteenth Century. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1993.