AHIS-2010 - TEXTS & OTHER MEDIA



Stage Setting

**INCA = Michelle Facos, Introduction to Nineteenth-Century Art

Week 1 – NO READING

Week 2 – Europe Goes Modern: Intellectual, Political, Artistic Context of
the ‘Age of Revolutions’ ~1500-1700
 

• INCA – Chapter 1.  A Time of Transition

Neo-Classicism

Week 3 – Idealization and the Past
 

• INCA – Chapter 2.  Classical Influences and Radical Transformations.
   

• Joshua Reynolds, “Discourse XIII”
  
   

Week 4 – Representing the Present; The French/Haitian Revolutions 
 

• INCA – Chapter 3.  Re-presenting Contemporary History.
   

• Hallward, “Haitian Inspiration: On the Bicentenary of Haiti’s Independence”

Romanticism

Week 5 – Freedom, Reaction, and Possibility
 

• INCA – Chapter 4.  Romanticism.

 

• •    Delacroix, “On Romanticism, from Journals 1822-24” in Art in Theory

 

Week 6 – Nature Overwhelms
 

• INCA – Chapter 4.  Romanticism (cont.)

 

• VIDEO: School of Life, “Burke on: the Sublime"

 

• FILM: Mr. Turner (dir. Mike Leigh, 2014)

Realism and Naturalism

Week 7 – Realism not ‘Reality’
 

• INCA – Chapter 9.  Realism and the Urban Poor.

 

• Emile Zola, “Naturalism on the Stage,” from The Experimental Novel, pp.114-15

 

• Marx and Engels, excerpt from “The Communist Manifesto” (1848) pp. 473-483

Week 8 – Constructing the World in Documents: Science and Fantasy
 

• INCA - Chapter 8.  Photography and Fact.

 

• The Daguerrotype. George Eastman Museum

Colonialism, Imperialism, Orientalism

Week 9 – Race, Fantasy, and Domination in the European Cultural Imagination.
 

• INCA – Chapter 6.  Colonialism. Imperialism. Orientalism.

 

• Edward Said, "Knowing the Oriental" in Orientalism, pp. 31-48

Week 10 – Colonial/Indigenous Contact in 19th Century Canada
 

• INCA – Chapter 6.  Colonialism. Imperialism. Orientalism (cont.)

 

• FILM – Gil Cardinal, “Totem: The Return of the G'psgolox Pole”

Origins of Modernism

Week 11 – NO CLASS, Fall Break

Week 12 – Sex and Gender in Impressionism/Post-Impressionism
 

• INCA – Chapter 12.  Impressionism

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• Hollis Clayson, “Painting the Traffic in Women” in Painted Love: Prostitution in French Art of the Impressionist Era

Week 13 – Reactions to Modernity: PRB, Arts and Crafts, and Symbolism
 

• INCA – Chapter 7.  New Audiences (Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood)• 

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• John Ruskin, “The Relation of Art to Use” from Lectures on Art

Week 14 – Symbolism

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• INCA – Chapter 13. Symbolism
   

Week 15 – Final Class: NO READINGS