Goya and the Crisis of the Enlightenment
Readings:
-Stephen Eisenman, “The Tensions of Enlightenment: Goya” in Nineteenth Century Art: A Critical History, Chapter 3 (Thames and Hudson, 2002), pp. 82-101.
-Colin Jones, “The smile: a history.” LINK
Documentary:
-Art of the Western World (Episode 6): An Age of Reason, an Age of Passion LINK
Movie recommendation:
-Goya in Bordeaux (1999)
The Challenge of Romanticism
Reading:
-Thomas Crow, “Classicism in Crisis: Gros to Delacroix,” in Nineteenth Century Art: A Critical History, Chapter 2 (Thames and Hudson, 2002), pp. 51-77.
Documentary:
-Romanticism. LINK
Reproduction: Lithography and Photography
Reading:
-David Llewellyn Phillips: “Photography, Modernity, and Art,” in Nineteenth Century Art: A Critical History (Thames and Hudson, 2002), pp. 241-268.
-Kim Bell, “Why we love to play pretend in front of scenic backdrops.” LINK
Videos:
-Before Photography: Photographic Processes Series – George Eastman Museum. LINK
-Lithographic Process – MOMA. LINK
Documentary:
-John Berger, Ways of Seeing, Episode I. LINK
Battle of Styles: Historicism, Nationalism, and New Technologies
Readings:
-Barry Bergdoll: European Architecture, Part III: Nationalism, Historicism, Technology. (Oxford University Press, 2000), Chapters 5 and 6, pp. 139-207.
-Eugène E. Viollett-le-Duc, selected pages from The Architectural Theory of Viollet-le-Duc (M.F. Hearn, 1990), pp. 115-6, 187, 192-3.
Documentary:
-The Gothic Revival. LINK
Haussmann’s Paris
Reading:
Brian Nelson, “The Remaking of Paris: Zola and Haussmann,” in Anna-Louise Milne ed., The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of Paris, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2013, pp. 103-119.
Documentary:
-Paris, Roman d'une Ville, 1991. Directed by Stan Neumann. LINK
Video:
A Sunday in Paris (Lumière Brothers, 1900) LINK
William Morris and the Arts and Crafts Movement
Reading:
-Nikolaus Pevsner, Pioneers of Modern Design, (Yale University Press, 2005), pp. 40-67.
Documentary:
-William Morris and the Muslims. LINK
Courbet, Realism and the Avant-Garde
Reading:
-“The Rhetoric of Realism: Courbet and the Origins of the Avant-Garde” in Nineteenth Century Art: A Critical History, (Thames and Hudson, 2002), pp. 222-240.
Video:
-Honoré Daumier, The Man of His Time. LINK
Impressionism and the Question of Originality
Reading:
-Charles Harrison, “Impressionism, Modernism and Originality,” in Modernity and Modernism: French Painting in the Nineteenth Century (Yale University Press, 1993), pp. 141-151.
-Allen Tager, “Why it took us thousands of years to see the colour violet.” LINK
Documentary:
-The Impressionists (BBC). LINK
-The Great Wave by Hokusai. LINK
Movie Recommendation:
-Bertrand Tavernier, Un Dimanche à la Campagne (1984)
Orientalism and the Question of Representation
Readings:
-Linda Nochlin, “The Imaginary Orient,” in The Politics of Vision: Essays on Nineteenth Century Art and Society (Harper and Low, 1989), pp. 33-59.
-Yumna Al-Arashi, “An Intimate Portrayal of the Hammam.” LINK
Documentary:
-Edward Said: Out of Place. LINK
Post-Impressionism
Readings:
-Stokstad: Art History, Chapter 27, “19th Century Art in Europe and the USA”, pp. 971-993.
-Linda Nochlin, “Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?” LINK
Documentary:
-Gaugin: A Dangerous Life. LINK
-Vincent Van Gogh: Painted with Words. LINK
From Cezanne to Cubism
Readings:
-“The Failure and Success of Cezanne” in Nineteenth Century Art: A Critical History, Chapter 19 (Thames and Hudson, 2002), pp. 389-402.
Documentary:
-Picasso: Last Stand (BBC Two Documentary) LINK
Expressionism, Futurism, and Constructivism
Readings:
-Kazimir Malevich, “From Cubism and Futurism to Suprematism” (1915). LINK
-Alexander Carpenter, “Vienna, City of Paradox.” LINK
Movie:
-Sergei Eisenstein, Battleship Potemkin (1925). LINK
Video:
-The Case for Abstraction. LINK
Dada and Surrealism
Reading:
-Elizabeth Legge, “Ventured: Paris Dada into Surrealism,” in David Hopkins ed., A Companion to Dada and Surrealism, Wiley Blackwell, Chichester, 2016, pp. 89-109.
Movie:
-Louis Bunuel and Salvador Dali: An Andalusian Dog (Un Chien Andalou) (1929) LINK
Documentary:
-Dada and Surrealism: Europe After the Rain (1979) LINK
Art Nouveau and Art Deco
Reading:
-Alan Colquhoun, Modern Architecture (OUP, 2002), Chapter 1
Documentary:
- Sex and Sensibility: The Allure of Art Nouveau – Paris, British Cities, and Vienna (BBC, 2012, three episodes) LINK
The Influence of the Bauhaus
Reading:
-Alan Colquhoun, Modern Architecture (OUP, 2002), Chapter 5.
Documentary:
-100 Years of Bauhaus. LINK
From Loos to Le Corbusier
Readings:
-Alan Colquhoun, Modern Architecture (OUP, 2002), Chapters 4 and 7.
Documentary:
-BBC New Masters Series: Le Corbusier (1972) LINK
-Le Corbusier: The Godfather of Modern Architecture LINK
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Three Shades of Modernism: Wright, Le Corbusier and Mies
Readings:
-Frank Lloyd Wright, “Young Architecture” (1931), in Ulrich Conrads, ed. Programs and Manifestoes in 20th Century Architecture (The MIT Press, 1970), pp. 124-125.
-Le Corbusier, “Towards a New Architecture” (1920), pp. 59-62.
-Mies van der Rohe, “On Form in Architecture” (1927), p. 102.
Documentary:
-Frank Lloyd Wright and the Prairie School (1999) LINK
Ottoman Port Cities, 1839-1918
Readings:
-Ahmet Ersoy, “Architecture and the Search for Ottoman Origins in the Tanzimat Period,” Muqarnas 24, 2007, pp. 117-134.
-Jens Hanssen, “‘Your Beirut is on my desk’: Ottomanizing Beirut under Abdülhamid II, 1876-1909”, in Projecting Beirut, eds. P. Rowe and H. Sarkis (München: Prestel), pp. 41-67.
Movie:
-Chienne d’Histoire, by Serge Avedikian, 2010. (On Moodle)
Suggested Reading:
-Mohamad El Chama “What’s to become of Beirut’s forgotten castle?” LINK
Circulation and Exile: Modernism in the Middle East
Readings:
-Esra Akcan, “Toward a Cosmopolitan Ethics in Architecture: Bruno Taut's Translations out of Germany,” New German Critique, No. 99, (Fall, 2006), pp. 7-39.
-May Davie, “Beirut and the 'Etoile' Area: An Exclusively French
Project?” in Joe Nasr and Mercedes Volait eds., Urbanism: Imported or Exported? Native Aspirations and Foreign Plans (London: Academy Press, 2003), pp. 206-228.
Documentary:
-HAYMATLOZ - Exile in Turkey (2015)
