Day 1 -- The Roots of Rebellion: The Changing World in Which Artists  and Intellectuals Operated

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Today's Team Project

An Example of a Research Report from a Previous Year

Camille Pissaro, Avenue de l opera Place du Theatre Francais in Misty Weather (1898)

A Case Study in Change: Impressionism Raymond Rudorff, Belle Epoque (The Revolution in French Art) Paul Smith, Impressionism and the Impressionists (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1995), pp.8-15. An Overview of Impressionism Interpretations of Impressionism F.W.J. Hemmings, "Open Air Painting" fromCulture and Society in France, 1789-1848  Emile Zola, "A New Style of Painting" Jules Antoine Castagnary, "1863: The Triumph of Naturalism"

Romanticism

From The France of Victor Hugo

•        The Romantic Era

•        The Romantic Victor Hugo

  Stendhal's Views on Art

Gustav Courbet, "Art Cannot Be Taught"

Realism

Honoré Daumier, The Third Class Carriage

F.W.J. Hemmings from Culture and Society in France. 1848-1898 (Charles Scribner’s Sons: New York, 1971.), pp. 92-93, 57– 61.     Reactions Against Realism

Robert Gildea, Children of the Revolution, Realism and Impressionism

Charles Baudelaire, Selections from "On the Heroism of Modern Life" (1846)

Jules Antoine Castagnary, "1863: The Triumph of Naturalism"

Changes in the Role of Art and Artists in Society

Raymond Rudorff, , The belle epoque; Paris in the nineties (New York, Saturday Review Press, 1973)

Charles Baudelaire, The Alienation of the Artist 

Harrison C. White and Cynthia A. White, Canvases and Careers: Institutional Change in the French Painting World

• The Impressionists: Their Role in the New System

Changes in the Market for Painting

Harrison C. White and Cynthia A. White, Canvases and Careers: Institutional Change in the French Painting World

• A New System Emerges
• Realities of Training
• A Glut in Search of a Market
• The Dealer-Critic System
• Individual Careers and the New System

David W. Galenson and Robert Jenson, “Canvases and Careers: The Rise of the Market for Modern Art in the Nineteenth Century,” NBER Working Paper No. 9123 September 2002

Orlando Figes, The Europeans: Three Livies and the Making of a Cosmopolitan Culture

• The Impressionists and the Critics
• The Impressionists, the Dealers, and the Collectors

Newspaper Celebrating Henri Murger's Memory on the 50th Anniversary of his Death

New Social Environments: Bohemia

Harrison C. White and Cynthia A. White, Canvases and Careers: Institutional Change in the French Painting World

• The Impressionists: Their Role in the New System

Roger Shattuck, From the Salon to the Cafe from The Banquet Years,

Richard Miller, Bohemia: The protoculture then and now (Selections).

• Youth Culture and the Opening of Hernani (1830)
• Murger and the Creation of a Bohemian Counter Culture

Henri Murger, Preface to The Bohemians of the Latin Quarter(Paris: Société des Beaux-Arts, n.d.)

Henri Murger, The Bohemians of the Latin Quarter (Selections)

Chapter XI -- A Bohemian Cafe

Chapter XVI -- The Passage of the Red Sea (Selections)

Frederick Brown, "The Café Guerbois" from Zola: A Life

Examples of Impressionism

Edouard Manet

Claude Monet

Edgar Degas

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Camille Pissaro

Berthe Morisot

Auguste Renoir Canoeist s Luncheon (1879-80)