ARTH 404
The Enemies of Impressionism, 1870-1900 Spring 2025
Division I

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This class explores European and international painting and sculpture of the last quarter of the nineteenth-century, particularly the work of artists once famous in their day but whose reputations collapsed with the rise of Impressionism and Modernism. Once dismissed as trivializing, sensationalizing, politically suspect, kitsch, and simply “bad”–much of this art has attracted new attention and enthusiasm in recent years. Focus on aesthetic theory, narrative, cinema, and–most of all–viewer experience. Artists include Gérôme, Bouguereau, Alma-Tadema, and many others.
The Class: Format: seminar
Limit: 14
Expected: 12
Class#: 3385
Grading: no pass/fail option, no fifth course option
Requirements/Evaluation: readings; oral presentation; readings analysis; research paper
Prerequisites: none
Enrollment Preferences: none
Distributions: Divison I

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