SCHEDULE OF LECTURES

Please note that this schedule is somewhat tentative; however, we will cover the material required. To best enjoy and participate in the classes students should come to class having done the appropriate readings.

Week One : Sept 26 & Sept 28
Introduction to the Course; Classic and Romantic Idealism

Readings: Skim over Part One (3-114), paying special attention to the artists on the Monuments List.

Week Two: Oct 3 & Oct 5
Goya, Daumier, and Courbet; Millet, Corot

Reading: 119-150; 158-166

Week Three: Oct 10 & Oct 12 Quiz I
The Salon and the Artistic Establishment in France

Reading: 167-177; 178-197; Manet: Reading: 198-220

Week Four: Oct 17 & Oct 19
Impressionism Out-of-Doors; Degas, Renoir, Morisot, Cassatt, Whistler

Reading: 221-232; 233-245; 246-256; 262-268

Week Five: Oct 24 & Oct 26
Midterm
Rodin; Toulouse-Lautrec; Klimt; Schiele

Reading: 296-310;

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Week Six: Oct 31 & Nov 2
Seurat; Cezanne

Reading: 313-342

Week Seven: Nov 7 & Nov 9
QUIZ 2
Postimpressionism: van Gogh, Gauguin

Reading: 343-367

Week Eight: Nov 14 & Nov 16
Odilon Redon and Henri Rousseau; Matisse and Fauvism

Reading: 369-376; 379-393

Week Nine: Nov 21
Quiz 3
More Matisse; some of: Munch; Kokoschka; Kollwitz

Reading: 394-417

Nov 23 (Thursday) THANKSGIVING DAY HOLIDAY

Week Ten: Nov 28 & Nov 30
Cubism and the Beginning of Abstract Art

Reading: 424-468

Week Eleven: Dec 5 & Dec. 7

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