Week
One
Monday, August 30
Course Introduction
Wednesday, September 1
Rococo
**first
writing assignment available online**
required readings:
Petra ten-Doesschate Chu, Nineteenth-Century European Art, (Prentice
Hall and Harry Abrams,
2003) [hereafter Chu], Introduction and chapter 1, pp. 13-39.
Mary Sheriff, “On the Interpretation of Brushwork,” and “Reading
Fragonard’s Bathers,” in
Fragonard, Art and Eroticism, (Chicago: University of Chicago Press,
1990), pp. 149-
152.
Friday, September 3
Rococo in Transition
required readings:
review Sheriff (above)
Norman Bryson, “Transformations in Rococo Space,” Word and Image, (New
York: Cambridge
University Press, 1981), p. 89-121.
Etienne La Font de Saint-Yenne, excerpt from “Reflections on some
Causes of the Present State
of Painting in France”(1747) from Art in Theory 1648-1815, pp. 554-561.
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Week
Two
Monday, September 6
No Class – Labor Day
Wednesday, September 8
European Art circa 1750: The Classical
Paradigm
required readings:
Chu, chapter 2, pp. 41-69.
Friday, September 10
Art circa 1750: The Grand Tour,
Sculpture, Portraiture
**first
writing assignment due in class**
required reading:
Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717-1768), from Reflections on the
Imitation
of Greek Works in Painting and Sculpture (1755), reprinted in
Charles Harrison, ed. Art
in Theory 1648-1815 (London: Blackwell, 2000). pp. 450-456.
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Week
Three
Monday, September 13
Art and an emerging public
required readings:
Diderot, “Salon of 1763,” from Art in Theory 1648-1815, 602-608.
Crow, “The Salon Exhibition in the 18th century and the Problem of its
Public,” from Painters
and Public Life in Eighteenth-Century France (1985), pp. 1-22.
Wednesday, September 15
Art and its Institutions: the
Académie, the École, the atelier and the Salon
required readings:
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, “Commentaries on Art: On Drawing;
On the Study of the
Antique” (from Taylor), 105-119.
Théodore Gericault, “On Genius and Academies,” from Art in
Theory, 23-26.
Friday, September 17
Art in Georgian Britain
required reading:
Chu, chapter 3, pp. 71-91.
"The Foundation of the Royal Academy" (1768); Joshua Reynolds, excerpts
from Discourses on
Art III, VI, and XI (1770, 1774, 1782) from Art in Theory 1648-1815,
pp. 651-661.
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Week
Four
Monday, September 20
Film Screening: Jacques-Louis David,
The Passing Show
Wednesday, September 22
David and Revolutionary France
required readings:
Chu, chapter 4, pp. 93-107.
David, “The Jury of Art” [1793], from Art in Theory. 721-723.
Friday, September 24
The Nude: Gender and the Ideal
required readings:
Chu, chapter 5, p. 109-137.
David, “The Painting of the Sabines,” [1794-5], from Art in Theory.
1119-1125.
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Week
Five
Monday, September 27
David’s legacy
**2nd
writing assignment available online**
required readings - 1 of the following:
Crow, “Revolutionary Activism and the Cult of Male Beauty in the Studio
of David,” in B.
Fort, ed., Fictions of the French
Revolution, 1991, pp. 55-84.
Abigail Solomon-Godeau, “Male Trouble: A Crisis in Representation,” Art
History 16:2 (June
1993): 286-312.
Wednesday, September 29
Goya and Spain circa 1800
required readings:
Chu, chapter 6, pp. 139-155.
Friday, October 1
German Romanticism: the Nazarenes,
Runge and Friedrich
Required reading:
Chu, chapter 7, pp. 157-173.
Edmund Burke, excerpt from A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of
Our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful (1757), from Art in Theory
1648-1815, pp. 516-526.
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Week
Six
Monday, October 4
British Landscape Painting: the
Picturesque, Constable, and Turner
Required reading:
Chu, chapter 8, pp. 175-193.
Uvedale Price, excerpt from An Essay on the Picturesque (1794) from Art
in Theory, 865-867.
Wednesday, October 6
Gericault and the Raft of the Medusa
(1819)
**2nd
writing assignment due in class**
Required readings:
Chu, chapter 9 (first half), pp. 195-208.
Julian Barnes, “Shipwreck,” The New Yorker, (June 12, 1989), 40-50.
Friday, October 8
No Class – Fall Recess
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Week
Seven
Monday, October 11
Ingres
required readings:
Chu, chapter 9 (second half), pp. 209-215.
“Theophile Gautier and Charles Baudelaire on Ingres, 1855” pp.
139-144 [Eitner, vol. II]
review Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, “Commentaries on Art: On
Drawing; On the
Study of the Antique” (from Taylor).
Wednesday, October 13
Ingres “versus” Delacroix
required readings:
Baudelaire, “What is Romanticism?” pp. 220-235 [Taylor]
Eugene Delacroix (1789-1863), “On Romanticism,” pp. 26-31 [Art in
Theory].
Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) on Delacroix, 127-132 [Eitner, vol. 2].
Friday, October 15
The Imaginary Orient
required readings:
Linda Nochlin, “The Imaginary Orient,” The Politics of Vision:
Essays on Nineteenth-Century
Art and Society. New York, 1989, 33-59.
Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863), “Letters and Notes on his Journey
to North Africa” pp. 84-88 in
Art in Theory 1815-1900: an anthology. [hereafter referred to as Art in
Theory 1815-1900]
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Week
Eight
Monday, October 18
**Midterm Exam**
Wednesday, October 20
The Rhetoric of Realism: Gustave
Courbet and Honoré Daumier
required readings:
Chu, chapter 11, pp. 247-257.
Max Buchon and Champfleury on Courbet’s Stonebreakers and Burial at
Ornans,” pp. 364-370 Courbet “Letter to Champfleury,” and “Statement on
Realism” pp. 370-372
[all from Art in Theory 1815-1900]
Champfleury, “Courbet: The Burial at Ornans,” from Taylor, pp. 328-337.
Friday, October 22
Courbet, Artistic Self-Fashioning, and
the ‘Popular’
required readings:
Gustave Courbet, “Letter to Young Artists,” pp. 402-404
Sarah Faunce, “Reconsidering Courbet,” from Sarah Faunce and Linda
Nochlin,
Courbet Reconsidered, 1985, pp. 1-29
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Week
Nine
Monday, October 25
City versus Country
required readings:
Chu, chapter 10 (selection), pp. 230-236, and Chu, chapter 12
(selection), pp. 275-281.
Jean-François Millet (1814-1875), “on Truth in Painting,” pp.
373-375 [Art in Theory 1815]
Herbert, Robert, “City vs. Country: The Rural Image in French
Painting from Millet to
Gauguin.” Artforum, volume 8. no. 6 (1970), 44-50.
Wednesday, October 27
The Painting of Modern Life: Courbet,
Manet, Guys
required reading:
Chu, chapter 12 (selection), pp. 281-291.
Charles Baudelaire, "The Salon of 1846: On the Heroism of Modern Life”
(orig. pub. 1846) and
"The Painter of Modern Life" (orig. pub. 1863) reprinted in Charles
Harrison and Paul
Wood, Art in Theory 1815-1900, London: Balckwell, 1998, pp. 300-304;
493-505.
Friday, October 29
The Crisis of the Nude: Manet’s
Olympia and the Salon of 1863
**final
research paper proposals due in class
please bring two copies for exchange
and discussion**
required readings:
Various authors on Manet’s Olympia, from Art in Theory 1815-1900, pp.
514-519.
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Week
Ten
Monday, November 1
Art Under Queen Victoria: Genre
Paintings for the Middle Classes
**revised
final research paper proposals due in class**
required readings:
Chu, chapter 14, pp. 311-339.
Wednesday, November 3
The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
required readings:
Dickens, “Old Lamps for New Ones,” [1850], Art in Theory, 1815-1900,
pp. 434-438.
The Times Critic and John Ruskin Exchange on the Pre-Raphaelites
[1851], Art in Theory, 1815-
1900, pp. 440-446.
Friday, November 5
The Aesthetic Movement: Rossetti,
Burne-Jones, Whistler
required readings:
Walter Pater, ‘Conclusion’ to The Renaissance, and “The School of
Giorgione,” pp. 828-833.
James McNeill Whistler, Cross-Examination in the Trial of Ruskin for
Libel, pp. 833-838 and
“the Ten O’Clock Lecture,” pp. 838-847.
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Week
eleven
Monday, November 8
Library Research Session
**Class to meet in Bailey/Howe
library**
Wednesday, November 10
Art, Tourism, and National Identity:
World’s Fairs 1850-1889
required readings:
Chu, chapter 15, pp. 341-359
Chu, chapter 18, pp. 429-435 (down to “The Triumph of Naturalism”).
Friday, November 12
Origins of Impressionism
required readings:
Chu, chapter 16, pp. 361-397.
Victor Fournel, "The Art of Flânerie," Art in Theory 1815-1900,
pp. 491-493.
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Week
Twelve
Monday, November 15
Impressionism: Subjectivity and
Individual Sensation
required readings:
Castagnary, "The Exhibition on the Boulevard des Capucines," in
Harrison and Wood, Art
in Theory, pp. 572-573.
Edmond Duranty, "The New Painting," in The New Painting: Impressionism
1874-1886
(exhibition, 1986); pp. 37-49.
Wednesday, November 17
Neo-Impressionism: Seurat, Signac,
Pissarro
required readings:
Chu, chapter 17, pp. 399-413 (bottom).
Robert L. Herbert, "Impressionism and Neo-Impressionism," “Color and
Color
Theory,” and “Technique and Science,” in Neo-Impressionism (exhibition
catalogue,
1968), pp. 15-21.
Friday, November 19
Changing Pictorial Paradigms:
Post-Impressionism, Cezanne, Van Gogh, Gauguin
required readings:
Chu, 413 (bottom) – 427.
Vincent Van Gogh, “Expressive Color,” and “The Night Café,”
[letters] in Herschel Chipp,
Theories of Modern Art, 1968, pp. 34-37.
Cezanne, “Letters to Emile Bernard,” in Art in Theory 1900-1990, pp.
37-40.
Gauguin, “Notes on Painting,” in Art in Theory 1815-1900, pp. 1022-1024.
Maurice Denis, “From Gauguin and van Gogh to Neo-Classicism,” Art in
Theory 1900-1990,
pp. 47-53.
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Week
Thirteen
Monday, November 22
Going ‘Native’: Gauguin in Brittany
and Tahiti
required readings:
Chu, pp. 461-470 (up to “Symbolism”).
Gauguin, Noa Noa [1897], New York: 1957, (selection).
Wednesday, November 24 & Friday,
November 26
No Class – Thanksgiving Break
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Week
Fourteen
Monday, November 29
**Class rescheduled for evening
session: location TBA**
Film Screening: Camille Claudel (Bruno Nuytte, director: 1989)
required reading:
Chu, pp. 478-483.
Higonnet, Anne, “Myths of Creation : Camille Claudel & Auguste
Rodin,” Significant Others:
Creativity & Intimate Partnership (London, Thames and Hudson,
1993), p. 14-29.
Wednesday, December 1
Gendering Artistic Identity: Auguste
Rodin & Camille Claudel
required reading:
review Higonnet (above)
Marie Bashkirtseff, Journal Entries 1877-1882, in Art in Theory
1815-1900, pp. 765-769.
Friday, December 3
Symbolism: Subjectivity and Interiority
required readings:
Chu, pp. 471 “Symbolism” – 478.
Paul Sérusier, “Nabis Principles,” Symbolist Art Theories : A
Critical Anthology, Henri Dorra, ed.,
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994, pp. 235-239.
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Week
Fifteen
Monday, December 6
Embodying the femme fatale: Frans von
Stuck, Egon Schiele, Max Klinger, Edvard Munch, Gustav Klimt, Ferdinand
Hodler, and Fernand Khnopff
required readings:
Chu, chapter 20, pp. 491-506.
Edvard Munch, "Notebook and Diary Entries," Art in Theory 1815-1900,
pp. 1039-1044
Additional reading tba
Wednesday, December 8
Concluding Discussion
**Final
Research Papers/Critical Essays due in class**
Final
Exam: Thursday, December 16 at 4 pm
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