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Chapter 1: Courbet and Revolutionary Realism The Avant-Garde:Bergdoll, Barry (Columbia University, Institute of Classical Art and Architecture: Romantic Revolt: Challenges to Neoclassicism and the Birth of the Avant-Garde in France and Germany c. 1830 (1:22:02)“Curious Muse” (Artincontext.org): European Avant-Garde in 7 Minutes: Non-Western Art Influence (00:06:53)Mycompasstv: Impressionism in the age of industry: Monet, Pissarro & Read more »
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Adams, Steven. “ ‘The fault of being purely French’: The Practice and Theory of Landscape Painting in Post-Revolutionary France.” Art History 36, no. 4 (September 2013): 740–767. Albert, Nicole G. Lesbian Decadence: Representations in Art and Literature of Fin-de-Siècle France. Translated by Nancy Erber, and William Peniston. New York: Harrington Park Press, 2016. Alexander, Read more »
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
Chapter 1 Gustave Courbet and Revolutionary Realism Gustave Courbet, Le Désespéré, 1843-45. Gustave Courbet, The Stone Breakers, 1849. 1.1 Revolution and Reform Franz Xaver Winterhalter, Louis-Philippe I, King of the French from 1830 to 1848, 1841. Karl Marx, The Class Struggles in France, 1848-1850. With an introduction by Frederick Engels. Translated from German by Henry Read more »
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES
Agostini, Jules (1859-1930) Agostini was a colonial engineer and amateur photographer who traveled extensively in the Far East. He was an acquaintance of Paul Gauguin’s and stayed at the artist’s house in Moorea with another photographer, Henri Lemasson. He is known for his photograph of Gauguin’s spacious reed and thatch house and studio at Puna’auia near Read more »
Chapter Ten
RELIGIOUS AND
RACIAL ANTISEMITISM &
The Jewish Artist
CONTENTS Introduction 10.1 A Narrative of Exclusion and Emancipation 10.2 English Expressions of Myth and Faith 10.3 Imaging the Jewess: La belle juive / L’affreuse juive 10.4 Moritz Daniel Oppenheim:”The Rothschild of Painters” 10.5 The Politics of Genre 10.6 Maurycy Gottlieb: Strife and Synthesis 10.7 Meijer Isaac de Haan: Controversy and Escape 10.8 Max Liebermann: Pioneering Read more »
Chapter Eight
MADNESS &
Modernity
CONTENTS Introduction FRANCISCO DE GOYA 8.1 Goya’s Demons 8.2 The Disasters of War JAMES ENSOR 8.3 Psychic Malaise 8.4 The Painter of Masks 8.5 The Carnivalesque: Images of Social Morbidity and Spiritual Crisis 8.6 Madness, Mania, Melancholy: The Artist as Observer VINCENT VAN GOGH 8.7 Finding the Spiritual in Art 8.8 Van Gogh’s Empathic Eye Read more »
Chapter Seven
PAUL GAUGUIN &
The Colonial Myth of Primitivism
CONTENTS Introduction 7.1 Early Influences 7.2 Brittany and the Path to Primitivism 7.3 Émile Bernard and Synthetism 7.4 The Studio of the South and the Volpini Exhibition 7.5 Portraits of the Artist as Other 7.6 Savage Influences: Tahiti 1891 7.7 Fantastical Figures, Scandalous Subjects 7.8 Noa Noa 7.9 Existential Manifesto: Where do we come from? Read more »
Chapter Four
BERTHE MORISOT,
MARY CASSATT &
The Affluent Woman’s World
CONTENTS Introduction BERTHE MORISOT 4.1 Public Debut 4.2 Fashionable Subjects 4.3 Sisterhood 4.4 Familiar Subjects 4.5 The Space Between 4.6 Painting en plein air 4.7 Les Liseuses 4.8 Visualizing Motherhood 4.9 Looking Female MARY CASSATT 4.10 An American in Paris 4.11 Modern Attitudes 4.12 Femininity and the Gaze 4.13 Reimagining Motherhood 4.14 New Perspectives 4.15 Read more »
INTRODUCTION
INTRODUCTION NINETEENTH-CENTURY ART HISTORY is an extensive field of study that intersects with diverse areas of the humanities and social sciences. New research continues to expand our understanding of the era’s modernist ideation and cultural production. The aim of Creating the Modern is to facilitate access to the research by providing an Read more »