ARTHIST 222 - Chardin and Watteau:An Aesthetics of Touch

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Stanford University

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These 18th-century painters preferred everyday life subjects, stilllifes, and landscape; Watteau invented the fête galante as a new picture type. Common to their work is attention to the materials of art: surfaces, textures, and glazes of paint; graphic range of chalk, ink, and pencil; an objectness that signals the artist's creative presence. Readings in contemporary theory and historical criticism frame an aesthetics of touch at odds with the eye-centered bias of Academic theory. Student presentations. Recommended: 121. GER:DB-Hum 5 units, not given this year

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5.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.stanford.edu/

Phone Number:

(650) 723-2300

Regional Accreditation:

Western Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Quarter

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