ARTH 253
Art in the Age of the Revolution, 1760-1860
Last Offered Fall 2008
Division I
Cross-listed WGST 253
This course is not offered in the current catalog

Class Details

A social history beginning with art of the pre-Revolutionary period and ending with realism. Major topics include changing definitions of neoclassicism and romanticism, the impact of the revolutions of 1789, 1830, and 1848, the Napoleonic Empire, the shift from history painting to scenes of everyday life, landscape painting as an autonomous art form and attitudes toward race and sexuality. The course stresses French artists such as Greuze, Vigée-Lebrun, David, Ingres, Delacroix, Géricault, Corot, and Courbet, but also includes Goya, Constable, Turner, and Friedrich.
The Class: Format: lecture
Limit: 30
Grading: yes pass/fail option, yes fifth course option
Requirements/Evaluation: two quizzes, hour test, and final exam or research paper; a conference at the Clark Art Institute and a field trip to New York may also be required
Prerequisites: ArtH 101-102 or permission of instructor
Distributions: Division I
Notes: meets Division 1 requirement if registration is under ARTH; meets Division 2 requirement if registration is under WGST
This course is cross-listed and the prefixes carry the following divisional credit:
WGST 253 Division I ARTH 253 Division I

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