AHI 350 - Impressionism and the Roots of Modernism

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Hilbert College

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Impressionist paintings by artists like Monet and Renoir resonate so comfortably in modern sensibility that we may forget how revolutionary they once were. Their commitment to new subject matter and new ways of seeing qualify the Impressionists as perhaps the original avant garde in the history of Western art. This CORE II course considers the artistic antecedents to Impressionism and the social and political atmosphere in which the movement took shape through artists like Edouard Manet, Claude Monet, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Edgar Degas, Mary Cassatt, and Berthe Morisot. Topics include the remaking of Paris by Baron von Haussmann, the politics of the Salon system, and the influence of Charles Baudelaire. The course concludes with three Post-Impressionist painters – Paul Gauguin, Vincent van Gogh, and Paul Cezanne – whose work, bridging the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, is not imaginable without the innovations of Impressionism. Guest presenters in cross-disciplinary areas relevant to the course of study will be made; e.g., in aesthetics, history, psychology. One class meeting will be scheduled at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery. Prerequisites: Successful completion of CORE I and junior status.

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.hilbert.edu

Phone Number:

(716) 649-7900

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

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Semester

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