FALL 2021 NEH Distinguished Teaching Professor in the From ...

19th-century European Art:

From Romanticism to Post-Impressionism

Professor Kimberly Rhodes

NEH Distinguished Teaching Professor in the

Humanities & Professor of Art History

FALL 2021

Class Schedule

9/20

Introduction & Romanticism

9/27

Romanticism to Realism

10/4

Realism to Impressionism

10/11 Impressionism to Post-Impressionism

10/18

Post-Impressionism

Timeline

1753

1757

1769

1789

1794

1799

1799

1804

1821

1833

Linnaeus¡¯ classification system of plants

Edmund Burke on the sublime

James Watt patents the steam engine

French Revolution

Eli Whitney patents the cotton gin

Discovery of the Rosetta Stone

Napoleon becomes First Consul

Napoleon crowns himself Emperor

Coronation of George IV

Slavery abolished in British colonies

Romanticism:

¡°a state of mind, a new attitude to the world that differed radically

from Enlightenment rationalism. Romantics privileged emotion,

faith, and spirituality over intellect and reason. They preferred

spontaneity to calculation, individuality to conformity, and the

freedom of nature to the constraints of culture.¡± (Petra

ten-Doesschate Chu, Nineteenth-Century European Art, 161-2)

¡°Romantic art [according to Schlegel] was to engage with

contemporary society and be relevant to it. It did not have to have a

specific style . . . but was to embrace any form of expression, as long

as it was ¡®poetic,¡¯ a term that carried associations of imagination,

emotion, and naturalness.¡± (Petra ten-Doesschate Chu,

Nineteenth-Century European Art, 162)

Some Primary Sources

Edmund Burke on the sublime: ¡°whatever is in any sort terrible or is

conversant about terrible objects or operates in a manner

analogous to terror, is a source of the sublime.¡±

Novalis on the romantic: ¡°By giving the commonplace higher

meaning--the familiar an enigmatic look, the known the prestige of

the unknown, the finite the appearance of the infinite--I make it

Romantic.¡±

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