Spring 2024 Art History UN2400 section 001

Nineteenth-Century Art in Europe

19th-Century Art in Europ

Call Number 12855
Day & Time
Location
TR 10:10am-11:25am
612 Schermerhorn Hall [SCH]
Points 3
Grading Mode Standard
Approvals Required None
Instructor Meredith Gamer
Type LECTURE
Method of Instruction In-Person
Course Description

How do you represent a revolution? What does it mean to picture the world as it “really” is? Who may be figured as a subject or citizen, and who not? Should art improve society, or critique it? Can it do both? These are some of the many questions that the artists of nineteenth-century Europe grappled with, and that we will explore together in this course. This was an era of rapid and dramatic political, economic, and cultural change, marked by wars at home and colonial expansion abroad; the rise of industrialization and urbanization; and the invention of myriad new technologies, from photography to the railway. The arts played an integral and complex role in all of these developments: they both shaped and were shaped by them. Lectures will address a variety media, from painting and sculpture to the graphic and decorative arts, across a range of geographic contexts, from Paris, London, Berlin, and Madrid to St. Petersburg, Cairo, Haiti, and New Zealand. Artists discussed will include Jacques-Louis David, Francisco Goya, Théodore Géricault, J.M.W. Turner, Adolph Menzel, Ilya Repin, Edouard Manet, Claude Monet, Mary Cassatt, James McNeill Whistler, C. F. Goldie, Victor Horta, and Paul Cézanne.

Web Site Vergil
Department Art History and Archaeology
Enrollment 58 students (65 max) as of 9:05PM Wednesday, December 11, 2024
Subject Art History
Number UN2400
Section 001
Division Interfaculty
Section key 20241AHIS2400W001