Modernism and Modernity in 19th-Century French Painting
ARHA 240
Fall 2008
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01
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| Crosslisting:
FRST 290 |
This course looks at factors that contributed to Paris's rise as the preeminent artistic center in the West at the time of the French Revolution and traces the evolution of French art throughout what would prove to be an extraordinary century of formal advance and experiment ending in impressionism and post-impressionism. The story of French art is one in which timeless ideals and triumphal narratives were continually put under pressure by the imperative to model the contingency of modern experience. Themes we will explore in this class include the significance of a public sphere for art making and the relationship between artistic advance and appeals to an ever-widening public; painting and revolution; history painting; the persistence of classical ideals and their relationship to modern subjects and experience; the new focus on sensation and the rise of landscape painting; the decline of narrative in painting in favor of form and surface; the relationship between modern art and academic practice; the rise of feminism and attempts on the part of women artists to find their own voice in a masculine practice; the conflict between the unabashed pursuit of artistic individualism and the need to define collective values and experience; the significance of the decorative to painting at the end of the century, and the relationship between art's embrace of privacy, domesticity, and intimacy at the end of the century and France's revolutionary legacy. |
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Essential Capabilities:
Interpretation
Lectures, readings and discussion will give students the opportunity to engage closely with different modes of interpretation and to identify the assumptions and interests motivating specific accounts of paintings and artistic practice.
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| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
HA ART |
| Course Format: Lecture / Discussion | Grading Mode: Graded |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: (ARHA-MN)(ARHA)(ARST)(FRST-MN)(FRST) |
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Past Enrollment Probability: Not Available |
| SECTION 01 |
Major Readings: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
Charles Harrison, Paul Wood, and Jason Gaiger, ART IN THEORY, 1815-1900 (Blackwell Publishing, 1998)
Francis Frascina et al, MODERNITY AND MODERNISM. FRENCH PAINTING IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY (Yale University Press, 1993)
A course reader.
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Examinations and Assignments:
3-page paper, 5-page paper, 2 peer critiques, mid term and final exams |
Additional Requirements and/or Comments:
Instructor uses enrollment requests and does not respond to emails prior to the beginning of class. All interested students should attend the first day of class. |
| Instructor(s): Kuenzli,Katherine M. Times: ..T.R.. 02:40PM-04:00PM; Location: DAC100; |
| Total Enrollment Limit: 40 | | SR major: 6 | JR major: 6 | | |
| Seats Available: 17 | GRAD: X | SR non-major: 6 | JR non-major: 6 | SO: 10 | FR: 6 |
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