SCHEDULE
Week 1
Class 1 Course introduction. Issues, objectives, requirements.
Class 2 Problems in method: art and politics, “social art history,” cultural history and the risk of “reflection” or “determinism.”
Week 2
Class 1 What are “nations”?
Class 2 Class, region, “nation”? Counter case-study: Gainsborough’s Mr and Mrs Andrews.
Week 3
Class 1 Revolution. Case-study: David’s Oath of the Horatii.
Class 2 Empire. Case-study: Canova’s Mars the Peacemaker.
Week 4
Class 1 “Authentically Spanish.” Case-study: Goya’s Nude and Clothed Maja.
Class 2 Albion Rising. Case-study: Blake’s Albion Rose.
Week 5
Class 1 Empathy and the Sublime. Case-study: Friedrich’s Abby in the Oakwood.
Class 2 Palingenesis and the Great Outdoors. Case study: Cole’s Course of Empire.
Week 6
Class 1 Midterm review
Class 2 Midterm examination
Week 7
Class 1 Revolutions and nationalisms at mid-century. Case-studies: Delacroix’s Liberty Leading the People; Veit’s Germania.
Class 2 “Intransigence” spectacle and utopia. Case-studies: Degas’ Place de la Concorde; Signac’s commission for the Montreuil town Hall, In the Time of Harmony.
Week 8
Class 1 The Kaiser’s Chemists and his Artists: Klimt’s University of Vienna decorative cycle.
Class 2 Weaponizing the Decorative: The Applied arts as industrial international competition and, from Arts and Crafts to Art Nouveau. Case-study: The World Fairs of 1889 and 1900.
Week 9
Class 1 Risorgimento Problems in Style. Case-studies: Volpedo’s Fourth Estate; Sartorio’s frieze for the Chamber of Deputies.
Class 2 An Italian Avant-garde, Futurism.
Week 10
Class 1 The Soviet Revolution, from Constructivism to Socialist Realism. Case-studies: Tatlin’s Monument to the Third International; the Moscow metro.
Class 2 Monumental nationalisms. Case-studies: Degenerate and Great German art exhibitions; Pavilions at the World Fair of 1937.
Week 11
Class 1 “To write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric.” Case study: The Second School of Paris and the larger postwar figuration/abstraction debate.
Class 2 “Is Jackson Pollock the greatest living (US) painter?” Case-study: Pollock’s Number 1, 1950 Lavender Mist.
Week 12
Class 1 Party Art: Case-study: Guttuso’s Funeral of Togliatti
Class 2 Culture wars. Case-study: The 1963 Venice Biennale
Week 13
Class 1 The Undeath of Ideology. Case-study: Kiefer’s Ways of World Wisdom.
Class 2 Cultural diplomacy today. Case-studies: embassy exhibitions.
Week 14
Class 1 Global nationalisms? The Changing Faces of Documenta.
Class 2 Course review.
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