Courses of Study 2012-2013 
    
    Mar 29, 2024  
Courses of Study 2012-2013 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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ARTH 3760 - Impressionism in Society

(crosslisted)
(also FGSS 3760 , FREN 3610 , VISST 3662 ) (HB) (CA-AS)
Fall. 4 credits.

Not open to freshmen.

L. L. Meixner.

Discusses French Impressionist art as the product of nineteenth-century public life.  By relating Impressionism to state culture, we trace subversive themes such as criminality, café-concert and brothel societies, clandestine prostitution, and class-regulated leisure.  Students consider Parisian spectacle and commodity culture, the rise of the department store and gallery system, and the importance of print culture and photography to the movement.  Images include paintings, playbills, posters, and advertisements.  Organizing thematic units are theories of vision and power, urban surveillance, the flâneuse, voyeurism, and early cinematic spectatorship.  Artists include Manet, Monet, Atget, Cassatt, Degas, Tissot, Toulouse-Lautrec and Van Gogh.



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