Art in Early Modern Europe II

Pre-requisites: Students are required to attend classes and seminars, to pass a midterm exam “European Art of 18th century” and to deliver oral presentation or essay on selected topic of 19th century art.

Course objectives: Key figures, concepts and phenomena of European visual culture during 18th and 19th centuries.

Course description: The first semester will be dedicated to the art of 18th century, while 19th century art will be explored during the second semester. The goal of the lecture classes will be to acquaint students with the origins and development of visual culture of Rococo, Neoclassicism, Romanticism, Realism, academic artistic tradition etc. During the first semester seminars will be focused on the key themes and concepts of Rococo and Neoclassicism, with the special emphasis on students’ ability to examine artwork in its own theoretical, social and cultural context. During the second semester students will have the opportunity to do presentations on various topics of 19th century art. Attendance is mandatory. Students’ active participation is necessary, especially during seminars and discussions.

Learning Outcomes: To develop the ability of understanding main concepts of European visual culture during 18th and 19th centuries. To present a historical understanding of these objects in their cultural context, as well as through the impact they had on contemporary world.

Literature/Reading:

• M. Levey, Rococo to Revolution, London 1966
• E. Waterhouse, Painting in Britain 1530 to 1790, Harmondswort 1953.
• M. Levey, Painting in 18th Century Venice, London 1959
• H. Honour, Neo-Classicism, Harmondsworth 1968.
• A. Čelebonovič, Ulepšani svet: slikarstvo buržoaskog realizma 1860‒1914, Beograd 1974.
• F. Novotny, Painting and Sculpture in Europe 1780‒1880, Yale University Press 1995.
• H. Locher, Deutsche Malerei in 19. Jahrhundert, Wissenschaflitsche Buch 2005.
• W. Telesko, Das 19. Jahrhundert. Eine Epoche und ihre Medien, Wien 2010.
• M. Facos, An Introduction to Nineteenth‒Century Art, Routlegde 2011.
• H. W. Janson, Nineteenth-Century Sculpture, London 1986.
• W. Vaughan, Romanticism and Art, London 1994.
• M. Facos, Symbolist Art in Context, University of California Press 2009.