ARTH 366 - Studies in 19th-Century Art and Architecture: Between Rupture and Tradition

• M - 15:00-17:30
• EV-1.615
• INSTRUCTOR: MARIE-EVE MARCHAND

Modernity, one of the pivotal conceits commonly used to understand the nineteenth century and its artistic production in Europe and North America, is not without ambiguity. While it brings to mind an ideal of change in all spheres of society, it also involves the survival and recovery of ways of thinking and artistic forms inherited from the past. This course will address the struggles and paradoxes between rupture and tradition in the visual and material culture of the long nineteenth century. Through a chronological and thematic approach, special attention will be given to the main ideas that marked this period, such as revolutionary ideals, faith in science and progress, imperialism, secularization, Orientalism, education and civilization through art and museums, historical consciousness, etc.