This course looks closely at the structure and function of the art world and at the societies that influenced it. This study allows students to better understand the major upheavals in artistic production in the 19th century. The course pays special attention to the Parisian artistic milieu in the 19th century and how the concept of the artist and artwork has evolved.
Method of presentation:
Lecture, discussion, numerous site visits to galleries and museums in Paris.
Field study:
Part I
Musée du Louvre : painting before Le Brun, the works of Le Brun, the first painter of the king, academic paintings
Ecole Nationale des Beaux Arts
Part II
Musée du Louvre: the reproduction artists, Ingres et Delacroix
Musée Delacroix
Musée d’Orsay: autour de Manet
Part III
Musée d’Orsay : impressionists et post-impressionists
Musée Marmottant Monet
Musée Rodin
Exposition des Félicités de l’Ecole Nationale des Beaux Arts
Le Palais de Tokyo
Les Galerie du Marais et de la rue Louise Weiss
Le Plateau
La Maison Rouge
Required work and form of assessment:
Participation and attendance, including attendance at site visits (20%); quizzes throughout the semester (20%); mid-term exam (20%)*; paper and oral presentation (20%)**; final exam (20%).
*The mid-term exam asks students to analyze images and to answer questions regarding topics covered in class.
**Students are required to write a five-page paper with a detailed biography and to give a 10-minute presentation of the work in class.
content:
Part I: Origins of the Organization of the French Artistic Sphere in the 19th Century
Painters guilds, from medieval to the Académie Royale (created by Lebrun under Louis XIV)
The victory of the Académie Royale
The Salon
Revolution and a new organization of the arts
Paris / Province
The birth of the art dealers
The beginning of art critics
Readings:
H. & C. White, « Les origines de la machine artistique du XIXe siècle », La carrière des peintres au XIXe siècle, Flammarion, Paris, 1991, pp. 29-38.
Gérard Monier, « La Révolution et l’organisation des arts », Des Beaux-arts aux arts plastiques – Une histoire sociale de l’art, éd. La Manufacture, Besançon, 1991, pp. 17-27.
Part II: Education of the Artist
Le prix de Rome
The decline of the Académie / the creation of the Musée du Louvre (1793):
The pedagogical role of the Louvre
The artist as a copyist
The creation of the Musée du Luxembourg (Musée des artistes vivants, 1818)
To copy/to create
Delacroix copyist/ Delacroix copied
The case of Ingres
The rupture introduced by Manet
Readings:
Boime, « Les hommes d’affaires et les arts en France au XIXe siècle », Actes de la recherche en sciences sociale, n° 28, 1979, pp.57-75.
M-A Dupuy, « Les copistes à l’œuvre », Catalogue d’exposition Copier Créer, Musée du Louvre, Paris, 1993, pp. 42-50.
«Arlette Sérullaz, « Delacroix copiste », ibid., pp. 234-238.
Joséphin Péladan, « Les procédés de Manet », L’artiste, Paris, 1884, pp. 100-107.
Part III: Role of the Impressionists in the New Artistic Sphere
The exhibition of les refusés (1863)
New artistic techniques, new status for the artist
First exposition of the impressionists chez the photographer Nadar (1874)
The art dealers/critics
The proliferation of salons
Individual careers
Manet
Monet
Van Gogh
Rodin
Art critics and their role: Zola, Baudelaire
Readings:
Extraits du livre de John Rewald, Histoire de l’impressionnisme, Livre de Poche, Paris, 1965.
Baudelaire, « La peinture de la vie moderne », Critique d’art, éd. Gallimard, Paris, 1992, pp. 343-357.
Emile Zola, « Edouard Manet », Ecrits sur l’art, éd. Gallimard, Paris, 1991, pp. 143-154.
Part IV: Conclusion
Quick look at the 20th century
Avant-garde reviews
The art market
Creation of the ministry of culture (André Malraux)
New exhibition areas for today’s art
Required readings:
Baudelaire. Critique d’art. Gallimard, Paris, 1992.
Boime, Albert. “Actes de la recherche en sciences sociale”, n° 28, 1979.
Monier, Gérard. Des Beaux-arts aux arts plastiques – Une histoire sociale de l’art. La Manufacture, Besançon, 1991.
Péladan, Joséphin. “Les procédés de Manet”, L’artiste, Paris, 1884.
Rewald, John. Histoire de l’impressionnisme. Livre de Poche, Paris, 1965.
Seznec & Adhémar, « Introduction », Diderot: les Salons. Clarenton, Oxford, 1957.
White, H & C. La carrière des peintres au XIXe siècle. Flammarion, Paris, 1991.
Zola, Emile. Ecrits sur l’art. Gallimard, Paris, 1991.
Copier Créer, Musée du Louvre, Paris, 1993.
This course looks closely at the structure and function of the art world and at the societies that influenced it. This study allows students to better understand the major upheavals in artistic production in the 19th century. The course pays special attention to the Parisian artistic milieu in the 19th century and how the concept of the artist and artwork has evolved.
Lecture, discussion, numerous site visits to galleries and museums in Paris.
Part I
Part II
Part III
Participation and attendance, including attendance at site visits (20%); quizzes throughout the semester (20%); mid-term exam (20%)*; paper and oral presentation (20%)**; final exam (20%).
*The mid-term exam asks students to analyze images and to answer questions regarding topics covered in class.
**Students are required to write a five-page paper with a detailed biography and to give a 10-minute presentation of the work in class.
Part I: Origins of the Organization of the French Artistic Sphere in the 19th Century
Readings:
Part II: Education of the Artist
Readings:
Part III: Role of the Impressionists in the New Artistic Sphere
Readings:
Part IV: Conclusion
Baudelaire. Critique d’art. Gallimard, Paris, 1992.
Boime, Albert. “Actes de la recherche en sciences sociale”, n° 28, 1979.
Monier, Gérard. Des Beaux-arts aux arts plastiques – Une histoire sociale de l’art. La Manufacture, Besançon, 1991.
Péladan, Joséphin. “Les procédés de Manet”, L’artiste, Paris, 1884.
Rewald, John. Histoire de l’impressionnisme. Livre de Poche, Paris, 1965.
Seznec & Adhémar, « Introduction », Diderot: les Salons. Clarenton, Oxford, 1957.
White, H & C. La carrière des peintres au XIXe siècle. Flammarion, Paris, 1991.
Zola, Emile. Ecrits sur l’art. Gallimard, Paris, 1991.
Copier Créer, Musée du Louvre, Paris, 1993.