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Academic Year 2000/2001
Neoclassicism, Romanticism, and the Death of History
ARHA 346 SP
The origins of modernism can be traced in part to creative contempt for the conservative, antiquity-centered historicism charaterizing the European art establishment. This seminar shall examine the disintegration of
staunch academic aesthetics in French
art from the late eighteenth through the mid-nineteenth century. Issues to be discussed include the reconfiguration of ideals in representation of the body, critical debates surrounding the so-called Romantic movements,
and changing attitudes toward
what constituted history itself. We shall examine the paintings of David, Gros, Ingres, Taunay, Delacroix, Delaroche, and others.
MAJOR READINGS
Stephen Bann, THE CLOTHING OF CLIO
Norman Bryson, TRADITION AND DESIRE
Carol Ockman, INGRES'S EROTICIZED BODIES
Christopher Prendergast, NAPOLEON AND HISTORY PAINTING
Abigail Solomon-Godeau, MALE TROUBLE: A
CRISIS IN REPRESENTATION
EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS
Research paper (15-20 pages) and oral presentations. Students will also be required to lead discussions on weekly readings.
ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS
This course is not open to first-year students or sophomores.
Unless preregistered students attend the first class meeting or communicate directly with the instructor prior to the first class, they will be dropped from the class list. NOTE: Students must still submit a completed
Drop/Add form to the Registrar's
Office.
COURSE FORMAT:
Seminar
REGISTRATION INFORMATION
Level:
UGRD
Credit:
1
Gen Ed Area Dept:
HA ART
Grading Mode:
Graded
Prerequisites:
NONE
SECTION 01
- Instructor(s): Tanyol,Derin
- Times: ...W... 01:10PM-04:00PM; Location: ZLKA106
- Reserved Seats: (Total Limit: 15)
- SR. major: Jr. major:
- SR. non-major: Jr. non-major: SO: X FR: X
Special Attributes:
- Curricular Renewal: Reading Non-Verbal Texts, Speaking
- Permission: Permission of Instructor Required
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Last Updated on MAR-26-2001
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