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COURSES FALL 2008

Histart 192F.1

UG SEMINAR: 19th-20th CENTURY ART (4 units) Fridays, 2-5 425 Doe, CCN: 05607 Darcy Grigsby

This seminar examines the art of Courbet and the movement called Realism in relation to the class and gender politics that precipitated the Revolution of 1848. Recently Courbet’s painting has been the subject of major exhibitions as well as newly published art historical studies. Taking advantage of this recent attention to the artist, we will read the major scholarly analyses of his art in their entirety and generally in chronological order. This seminar is therefore structured as a historiographic inquiry about the shifting questions brought to bear upon his art. It offers not just an interrogation of mid-nineteenth century French culture but also a history of the past four decades of art historical scholarship.  Students are encouraged to purchase the out of print books (online or at used bookstores) in advance of our first meeting.

Required  Textbooks:

In print:

• Linda Nochlin, Courbet, Thames and Hudson, 2007. (paperback)
• Sylvain Amic et al, Gustave Courbet, exhibition catalogue,  2008 (hardback). (discounted price of $53 on Amazon)
• Petra ten-Doesschate Chu, The Most Arrogant Man in France: Gustave Courbet and the Nineteenth-Century Media Culture,  2007. (hardback)

Out of print, available online or at used bookstores:

• T. J Clark,Image of the People: Gustave Courbet & the 1848 Revolution, 1973.
• Michael Fried, Courbet's Realism, 1990.

Optional:

• Mary Morton and Charlotte Eyerman, Courbet and the Modern Landscape, Getty Trust Publications: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2006.
• T. J Clark,  The absolute bourgeois: artists and politics in France, 1848-1851, 1973. (out of print)
• Petra ten-Doesschate Chu, ed., Letters of Gustave Courbet, 1992.  (out of print)

Reserve Books:

• Maurice Agulhon, The Republican Experiment, 1848-1852, trans. Janet Lloyd, 1983.
• Sylvain Amic et al, Gustave Courbet, exhibition catalogue,  2008.
• Janis Bergman-Carton, The Woman of Ideas in French Art, 1830-1848, 1995.
• Louis Chevalier. Laboring Classes and Dangerous Classes in Paris during the first half of the Nineteenth Century, New York, 1973.
• T. J Clark,Image of the People: Gustave Courbet & the 1848 Revolution, 1973.
• T. J Clark,  The absolute bourgeois: artists and politics in France, 1848-1851, 1973.
• Michael Fried, Courbet's Realism, 1990.
• Michael Fried, Manet’s Modernism, 1996.
• Kimberly Jones et al., In the Forest of Fontainebleau: Painters and Photographers from Corot to Monet, National Gallery Of Art, Washington, 2008. 
• Mary Morton and Charlotte Eyerman, Courbet and the Modern Landscape, Getty Trust Publications: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2006.
• Linda Nochlin, Courbet, Thames and Hudson, 2007.
• Linda Nochlin et al., Courbet Reconsidered, Brooklyn Museum of Art, 1988.
• Linda Nochlin, ed., Realism and Tradition in Art 1848-1900, Englewood Hills, 1966.http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/0691126798/ref=sr_1_olp_6?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1217441317&sr=1-6
• Peter Stallybrass and Allon White, The Politics and Poetics of Transgression, 1986.
• Petra Ten-Doesschate Chu, The Most Arrogant Man in France: Gustave Courbet and the Nineteenth-Century Media Culture,  2007.
• Petra Ten-Doesschate Chu, ed., Letters of Gustave Courbet, 1992.
• Petra Ten-Doesschate Chu and Gabriel Weisberg, eds., The Popularization of Images. Visual
• Culture under July Monarchy, 1994.
• Gabriel Weisberg, The Realist Tradition. French Painting and Drawing 1830-1900, Cleveland Museum of Art, 1980.

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