Schedule

Sept 24 - Introduction: Art, Life, Naturalism--Delacroix’s example

Sept 29 - The Idea of Landscape: Life into Art

Oct 1 - Anti-Literary Naturalism: Constable’s "natural painting"

Oct 6 - Simulacra of the Real: Later Constable and the Painters of Barbizon

Oct 8 - Nature, Culture, and the Emergence of Mass Media

Oct 13 - Art/Life/Revolution: Courbet and Millet from 1848-55

Oct 15 - Courbet and Millet (continued)

Oct 20 - On the multiple "realisms" of the 1860s

Oct 22 - Mid-Term Examination

Oct 27 - Moral Imperatives and Literary Realism: The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood

Oct 29 - The Pre-Raphaelites (continued)

Nov 3 - Pre-Raphaelite Social Theory and the Utility of Art

Nov 5 - A Modern Art from Modern Life: Manet and his Circle

Nov 10 - Manet (continued)

Nov 12 - Degas: The Art of Seeing

Nov 17 - Degas (continued)

Nov 19 - The Call of Nature: radical plein-air painting of the 1860s

Noc 24 - The Summer of ’69 Paper Due

Nov 26 - No Class (Thanksgiving holiday)

Dec 1 - The World in Code: Impressionist Painting from 1870-74

Dec 3 - Dead Week: Class held only if course is running behind

Dec 10 - Final Examination: 7:00 -- 10:00 pm

Required Readings

Rosenblum, Robert and H.W. Janson. 19th-Century Art. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1984.
Read at the appropriate times pages 114-354 and review images

Holt, Elizabeth. From the Classicists to the Impressionists, 2nd ed. New Haven: Yale, 1986.
Read the following at the appropriate times:

Eugène Delacroix, "Journal Excerpts," pp. 152-171
John Constable, "Letters to Reverend Fisher," pp. 112-117
Charles Baudelaire, "The Salon of 1846," pp. 173-188
Gustave Courbet, "Letters," pp. 350-353
Jean-François Millet, "Letters to Alfred Sensier," pp. 354-357
William Holman Hunt, "Pre-Raphaelitism and the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood," pp. 1341-140
Emile Zola, "Mon Salon," pp. 371-388
James McNeil Whistler, "Action for Libel against Mr. Ruskin," pp. 389-398
Edgar Degas, "Shop Talk," pp. 401-404

Course Reader of material from various sources.
See the Table of Contents for a schedule to co-ordinate the readings with class lectures.

Supplementary Readings

Adams, Steven. The Barbizon School and the Origins of Impressionism. London: Phaidon, 1994.

Bareau, Juliet Wilson. The Hidden Face of Manet, ex. cat. Supplement to Burlington Magazine, 128, no. 997 (April 1986).

Barrell, John. The Dark Side of the Landscape. Cambridge: Cambridge University, 1980.

Boime, Albert. The Academy and French Painting in the 19th Century. New Haven: Yale, 1986.

Bouret, Jean. The Barbizon School. Greenwich, CT: NYGS, 1973.

Brooklyn, The Brooklyn Museum. Courbet Reconsidered, ex. cat. New Haven: Yale, 1988.

Champa, Kermit. Studies in Early Impressionism. New Haven: Yale, 1973.

Clark, Timothy J. The Absolute Bourgeois: Artists and Politics in France, 1848-51. Greenwich: NYGS, 1973.

Clark, Timothy J. The Painting of Modern Life: Paris in the Art of Manet and his Followers. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1984.

Cleveland, Museum of Art. The Realist Tradition: French Painting and Drawing, 1830-1900, ex. cat. Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum, 1980.

Fried, Michael. Courbet’s Realism. Chicago: University of Chicago, 1990.

Galassi, Peter. Corot in Italy: Open Air Painting and the Classical Landscape Tradition. New Haven: Yale, 1991.

Herbert, Robert. Impressionism: Art, Leisure, and Parisian Society. New Haven: Yale, 1988.

House, John. Monet: Nature into Art. New Haven: Yale, 1986.

London, Arts Council of Great Britain. Gustave Courbet, ex. cat. London: Royal Academy, 1978.

London, Hayward Gallery. Jean-François Millet, ex. cat. London: Arts Council, 1976.

London, Hayward Gallery. Pissarro 1830-1903, ex. cat. London: Arts Council, 1980.

London, Hayward Gallery. Renoir, ex. cat. London: Arts Council, 1985.

London, Tate Gallery. The Pre-Raphaelites, ex. cat. London: Penguin, 1984.

Los Angeles, L.A. County Museum of Art. A Day in the Country: Impressionism and the French Landscape, ex. cat. Los Angeles: LA County Museum, 1984.

New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art. Manet 1832-1883, ex. cat. New York: Metropolitan Museum, 1983.

New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art. Origins of Impressionism, ex. cat. New York: Abrams, 1994.

New York and Ottawa, Metropolitan Museum of Art and National Gallery of Canada. Degas, ex. cat. New York and Ottawa: Metropolitan and National Gallery of Canada, 1988.

New York, The Museum of Modern Art. Before Photography, ex. cat. New York: MoMA, 1981.

Nochlin, Linda. Impressionism and Post-Impressionism. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1966.

Nochlin, Linda. Realism and Tradition in Art, 1848-1900. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1968.

Philadelphia, Museum of Art. The Second Empire, 1852-1870, ex. cat. Philadelphia: The Museum, 1978.

Reff, Theodore. Manet and Modern Paris, ex. cat. Washington: The National Gallery, 1982.

Rewald, John. The History of Impressionism, 4th ed. New York: MoMA, 1973.

Rosenthal, Michael. Constable: The Painter and his Landscape. New Haven: Yale, 1983.

San Francisco, Fine Arts Museums. The New Painting: Impressionism, 1874-1886, ex. cat. San Francisco: Fine Arts Museums, 1986.

Tucker, Paul. Claude Monet: life and art. New Haven: Yale, 1995.

Wechsler, Judith. A Human Comedy: Physiognomy and Caricature in 19th Century Paris. Chicago: University of Chicago, 1982.

Weisberg, Gabriel. Beyond Impressionism: The Naturalist Impulse. New York: H.N. Abrams, 1992.

White, Barbara. Impressionism in Perspective. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1978.