Art History 272 - ART & REVOLUTION IN EUROPE

This course surveys the major trends in European painting and sculpture-including some urbanism and visual culture-of the tumultuous century following the French Revolution of 1789. Starting with Jacques-Louis David and revolutionary iconoclasm, we end with Post-Impressionism and the spectacular cast-iron construction of the Eiffel Tower for the 1889 Paris World's Fair. Throughout, we recover the original radicality of art's formal and conceptual innovations during the 19th century: confidently overt brush-work, a mingling of high and low, and an aesthetization of politics, empire, sexuality, technology and modernity. Prerequisite: a 100-level course in art history, or permission of the instructor. Group B