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TTh 2:30 PM-4:00, 210 Tappan Hall Junior Proseminar:
Neo-Impressionism
This course examines in considerable detail the short life (roughly from 1884-1891) of Neo-Impressionist painting in Paris. The central figure of our study is Georges Seurat, whose invention-and promotion-of a presumably "scientific" form of painting will lead us to consider relations between modernism and mass culture, between the avant-garde and "official" culture, between "unique" works of art and the cult of technology, and finally between the famous pronouncements of modernist criticism and various theories of style and narrative that modernist criticism may well have overlooked. Cost: 1 WL 4 (Lay, Howard) |
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