19th Century Art 1: 1789–1848 (350-1-1)

Topic

Late 18th C. to 1848

Instructors

Alicia Caticha

Meeting Info

Kresge Centennial Hall 2-319: Tues, Thurs 3:30PM - 4:50PM

Overview of class

Focusing on the "Age of Revolutions," this course broadly takes up the history of Paris and French art from the late eighteenth-century to approximately 1848, with some forays across Europe, the Caribbean, and North America. Covering the French Revolution of 1789, the Haitian Revolution (1791-1804), and the French Revolutions of 1830 and 1848, we will look at how popular culture, fashion, race, technology, colonialism, empire, and politics coalesced in the artworks of Jacques-Louis David, Marie-Guillemine Benoist, Antonio Canova, Théodore Géricault, and Honoré Daumier, among others. Professor Emeritus Hollis Clayson has described this course as "Sex, Violence, Politics, and the Land."

Class Materials (Required)

N/A

Class Notes

Please use the following link for Art History Waitlist information: https://arthistory.northwestern.edu/courses/2023-2024/waitlist.html

Class Attributes

Historical Studies Foundational Discipline
Literature and Arts Foundational Discipline
Historical Studies Distro Area
Literature & Fine Arts Distro Area
Global Perspectives on Power, Justice, and Equity