European Humanities Web 2010-11
 

  - Pre-History

 

 

 

 



Horse c. 15,000-10,000 BC Lascaux, France

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Cave of Lascaux
c. 15,000-10,000 BC Lascaux, France


Venus of Willendorf
24,000-22,000 BC


Cave of Lascaux
c. 15,000-10,000 BC Lascaux, France

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Man in the State of Nature:
Original Sin, The Blank Slate, The Noble Savage, and the Ghost in the Machine

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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  - Age of Mythology

 

 

 

 


Minoan Snake Goddess
(1600 BC)


Bull-leaping (Toreador Fresco),
from the palace at Knossos, Crete,  (ca. 1450-1400 BC)

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"Prince of lilies" or "Priest-king Relief", plaster relief, Palace of Knossus (1550 BC)


Seated Harpist
Marble statue from Keros, Cyclades,  c.2300 BC

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  • Monteverdi, Orfeo (1606)
  • Purcell, Dido and Aeneas (1689)

 

 

 

 

 

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  - Greece (Archaic)

 

 

 

 


Gold Mask of Agamemnon
c. 1600 - 1500 BC

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  • Discuss the emergence of the mortal hero out of ancient mythology.
  • What characteristics did the ancient Greeks associate with heroism?  Describe the changing conception of the Greek hero in Homer's Iliad and Odyssey.
  • What is the relationship between the mode of production and the values and political/social structures of the ancient Greeks?
  • Describe how Herodotus drew on Homer in his characterization of Themistocles.
  • Describe how the Ionian School of Philosophy emerged in the 6th c. BC.
  • How does the Odyssey reflect the values, beliefs and philosophies of the ancient world? (Define kleos and xenia.)
  • What are the issues of identity, loyalty, quest, and faith with which the people of the ancient world struggled?

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Krater, second half of 8th century b.c.; Geometric
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Statuette of a man and centaur, ca. 750 b.c.; Late Geometric Greek


Temple of Hera Paestum, Italy
550 BC


Riace Warrior
460-450 BC

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Gorgo Pediment, Temple of Artemis
590-580 BC

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  - Greece (Golden Age)

 

 

 

 


Athena Adjusting Her Sandal
Acropolis (410 BC)


Krater, second half of 8th century B.C.; Geometric Greek, Attic


Parthenon, Iltinos and Kallicrates
(448-432 BC)


Dying Gaul  (230 BC)

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  • How did the use of Greek reason and logic bridge the gap between the study of nature and man?
  • Describe problems and contradictions between the Greek ideal and its reality.
  • Contrast Athenian and Spartan culture.
  • How was ancient Greek theatre enacted? What were its cultural meanings?
  • Compare Sophocles' vision of tragedy with the pursuit of truth in Socratic philosophy.
  • Why do we refer to the evolution of Greek thought in this period as the birth of Western civilization?
  • How does Socratic philosophy reconnect the evolution of Greek thought to the ethical concerns of Western civilization?

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Parthenon Marbles:
Bull Lowing
Acropolis  (410 BC) 



Doryphoros of Polyclitus
450-440 BC



Bust of Pericles, Phidias


Attic red figure pelike, c. 410 B.C.
Athena and Hercules leave the funeral pyre, headed for Mount Olympus.

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  - Roman World

 

 

 

 


Portrait of Augustus (20 BC)


The Capitoline Wolf,
bronze, (c.500-480 BC.)


Colosseum (80 AD)


Head of Constantine
(330 AD)


Point du Gard (16 BC)


Pantheon
118-125 AD


Arch of Titus (81 AD)

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  • Discuss the founding myths of Rome and how they were transformed by Virgil.
  • Explain why the Roman Republic rose and fell.
  • Explain the rise and fall of the Roman empire.
  • What is the relationship between the mode of production and the values and political/social structures of the Romans?
  • Discuss changes in Greek philosophy in the Hellenistic Period: Epicureanism, Stoicism
  • How did stoicism influence Roman law and politics?
  • Compare the fall of the Athenian empire with the fall of the Roman empire.
  • Discuss how the teachings of Jesus integrated aspects of Greek and Hebrew thought.
  • Describe the contributions of Jesus, Paul and Augustine to Christian theology.
  • To what degree can Christianity according to Augustine be reconciled with Greco-Roman philosophy?

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Trajan's Column,
(110-113 AD)


Ara Pacis (13 BC)

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  - Middle Ages

 

 

 

 


The Apostles at
Chartres Cathedral


The Tollund Man 4th c. BC


San Apollonaire (530-49 AD)


Sutton Hoo Purse Cover
(625 AD)


Sainte Foy Tympanum
(1050-1120 AD)

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  • How did the English language evolve from Celtic to Old English to Middle English?
  • How did Christianity come to England?
  • Can we see the Beowulf story from Grendel's point of view?
  • What is the relationship between the mode of production and the values and economic/political/social structures in medieval Europe?
  • Describe how Augustine's  theology influenced the medieval worldview.
  • How did Thomas Aquinas synthesize faith and reason in scholasticism?
  • How is the medieval realm the foundation for modern Europe?
  • What motivated the main developments in musical texture from the homophony of Gregorian Chant to the early polyphony of the Ars Nova?
  • How did medieval music reflect the changes occurring socially in the Late Middle Ages?

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  • Gregorian Chant, Mass for Christmas Day: Kyrie, (c.600?)
  • Gregorian Chant, Sequence for Easter, Victimae, (c.600?)
  • Gregorian Chant, Psalm 109: Dixit dominus, (c.600)

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The Rose Window at
Chartres (1240-1250 AD)


Virgin and Child,
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14th c.


St. Denis Nave (1137 AD)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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  - Early Renaissance

 

 

 

 



The Ptolemaic System


Giotto, Mourning of Christ
(1305 AD)


Giotto, Madonna Enthroned
(1310 AD)


Ghiberti,  Detail from the Gates of Paradise (East Door)
The story of Joseph (1425-52)

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  • Compare the emergence of European thought into the Renaissance with the emergence of Greek thought into the Periclean Era.
  • What changes in the European culture are reflected in the shift in styles from Romanesque to Gothic?
  • What is the relationship between the changing mode of production and the values and political/social structures being developed in Renaissance Italy?
  • How does Petrarch challenge the ideas of scholasticism and promote humanism?
  • Why did Chaucer write in English?
  • What are the ways in which Chaucer anticipates the Renaissance?
  • How does Chaucer’s portrait of English society at the end of the fourteenth century reveal the changes for good and ill overtaking Medieval Europe as it entered the Renaissance? 
  • How does Chaucer manipulate his persona in his satire?
  • Compare the key ideas of the Renaissance with those of the Greeks during the Periclean Era.

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Massacio, Tribute Money
1427 AD


Bosch,  The Garden of Earthly Delights (1466)


Limbourg Brothers October,
from Les Trés Riches
Heures du Duc de Berry
1413-1416.


Brunelleschi, Pazzi Chapel 1440


Bosch, Christ Carrying the Cross (1490)

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  - High Renaissance

 

 

 

 


Michelangelo, David (1501-04)


 Da Vinci, Mona Lisa, 1503–1505


Michelangelo, Creation of Adam, Sistine Chapel Ceiling (1508-1512)


Raphael, Cowper Madonna 1505


Raphael, The School of Athens
 (1510-11)


Titian,  Meeting of Bacchus and Ariadne,  1522–1523

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  • What is this Renaissance MAN stuff all about?
  • How do historical ideas inform our understanding of Othello?
  • How does Shakespeare question the Renaissance pursuit of the ideal in Macbeth or Othello? 
  • To what extent is the Renaissance both the high point of Latin Christendom and a virulently, religiously subversive movement?
  • What was the church's response to the Renaissance?
  • What is the role of Byzantium and Islam in the Renaissance? What cross cultural influences took place between the Islamic and European worlds during the Renaissance?
  • What is the influence of European discovery, exploration and expansion on the European outlook?
  • Trace the beginnings of European imperialism from Ancient Greece and Rome to Renaissance Europe to 19th c. Europe.
  • Compare and contrast the values and political/social structures of the Northern Renaissance to the Italian Renaissance?  To what degree is this change influenced by geographical, cultural and historical factors?
  • How did the religious upheavals and societal changes of the Renaissance and Reformation alter the compositional styles and musical textures of the time?  What is the relationship between these societies and music in terms of style and function?

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  • Lheritier, Nigra Sum, c.1520
  • des Prez (1450-1521) Motet: De profundis clamaviadte 1, 2, 3, 4
  • Palestrina, Pope Marcellus Mass (1570) Gloria; Credo; 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 
  • Geusualdo, Madrigal: Io parto e no piu dissi by (1561-1613) 1, 2, 3
  • Weelkes, Madrigal: O Care thou wilt dispatch me  (1575-1623) 1, 2, 3, 4
  • Dowland, Madrigal accompanied by lute: Flow my tears…(1563-1626) 1, 2, 3
  • Byrd, Pavana Lachrymosa 1, 2, 3
  • Attaignant, Brante gay and Basse danse
  • Monteverdi, Orfeo (1606) Eurydice recitative,Dance, Orfeo Song , Chorus , Tu se’ morta.; L’incoronazione di Poppea (I, iii) (1642)

 

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Michelangelo,  Last Judgment (detail)  Sistine Chapel (1535-41)


Raphael, Baldassare Castiglione (1514-15)


Titian, Portrait of  Doge Andrea Gritti (1544-45)


Giorgione, The Tempest (1508)


Inigo Jones Costume Design for The Masque of Blackness (Johnson) (1605)

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  - Reformation

 

 

 

 


Holbein, The Ambassadors  (1534)


Durer,  Knight, Death, and the Devil  (1513)


Brueghel,  The Adoration of the Kings (1564)


El Greco, View of Toledo (1597)

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  • Why did Luther's challenge to the Catholic Church create such a fundamental break religiously, socially and politically?
  • How did the struggles of the Thirty Years War began the slow secularization Europe?
  • What was the Church's response to these various challenges?
  • How does Baroque Art reflect the Church's response?

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El Greco, Burial of Count Orgascz (1586)


Michelangelo,  Last Judgment (detail)  Sistine Chapel (1535-41)


St. Peter's Basilica, Rome (1506-1626)


Velazquez, Pope Innocent X (1650)

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  - Baroque

 

 

 

 


Velazquez, Portrait of Paul IV
(1631-32)


Rubens,  The Rape of the Daughters  of Leucippus (1618)


Rembrandt, Return of the Prodigal Son (1662)


Caravaggio,  Conversion of St. Paul  (1600-01)


Vermeer, View of Delft  (1659)


Vermeer, Girl with a Pearl Earring (1665)

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  • What was the Church's response to the various challenges of the Reformation?
  • How does Baroque Art reflect the Church's response?
  • What was the impact and influence of competing secular and religious forces on the development of social mores,
    political theories, and artistic expression?
  • How does the emergence of opera reflect the zeitgeist of the period?
  • Describe how the patronage system and how it transformed the content and business of art and music.
  • How does the music of Bach and Handel reflect the zeitgeist of the era?
  • How do the topics of the paintings of Rembrandt, Reubens and Vermeer reflect changes in the
    mode of economic production.
  • Describe how virtuoso artists like Rembrandt and Bach demonstrated their individual talents and reflected
    the opulent tastes of the age.
  • What motivated the main differences between the Renaissance and Baroque musical styles?

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Bernini,  Ecstasy of St. Teresa
(1647-52)


Bernini,  David (1623)


Versailles (1669)


Wren, St. Paul's Cathedral (1675)

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  - Scientific
Revolution

 

 

 

 


Kneller, Sir Isaac Newton (1689)


Copernican  Model of Universe (1543)


Galileo, Drawing of the Moon
(1612)


Hooke's Flea from Micrographia (1664)

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  • Explain the divergent paths of religion and science in the early 17th century.
  • How did the scientific revolution contribute to man's quest to understand the natural world?
  • How did the scientific revolution naturally contribute to the emergence of the Enlightenment?
  • Understanding the context of the time, why were the theories of Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler
    and Newton so threatening to the Roman Catholic Church?

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Kepler's Laws of Motion (1609)


Illustration of a fly's eye. From Robert Hooke's Micrographia (1665).


Wright., A Philosopher Giving That Lecture on the Orrery, in Which a Lamp Is Put in Place of the Sun (1766)

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·         The Classical Period from Music History 102 (IPL)

·         Skyscript: Kepler and the Music of the Spheres

 

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  - Enlightenment

 

 

 

 


Houdon,  Bust of Voltaire  (1788)


Wright, Experiment with the Air Pump c. 1768


Blake, "Ancient of Days"
from Europe: A Prophecy (1794)


Montgolfier's Hot
Air Balloon (1783)


Machine of Marly,  from Diderot
Encyclopedie


Pritchard, "Iron Bridge at Coalbrookdale" (1777)

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  • How did philosophes and religious thinkers respond to the Lisbon earthquake catastrophe?
  • How does Voltaire redefine the church's conception of the problem of evil?
  • How did the use of reason and logic bridge the gap between the study of nature and man?
  • Was the Enlightenment project a wrong headed plunge into moral relativism?
  • What were the outcomes and repercussions of the triumph of rationalism in European thought?
  • How did political and social changes of the period affect a change from Baroque to Classical musical styles?
  • How does sonata form relate to the principles of the Enlightenment and the Age of Reason?
  • How does the music of Mozart and Hayden reflect the zeitgeist of the era?
  • In what ways was the Enlightenment a culmination of the break with Medieval Europe?
  • To what extent did Western European thought during the period from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment recapitulate the changes that occurred in Greek thought during the period stretching from Homer to Alexander?
  • How were Voltaire's writings simultaneously an influence on and a product of the general beliefs of the Enlightenment?
  • What is the influence of technology on artistic expression?

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Watteau,  The Embarkation for Cythera (1717)


Watteau, Mezzetin (1717-19)


Fragonard,  The Swing (1767)

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  - Absolutism/
Constitutionalism

 

 

 

 


Leviathan frontispiece (1651)


 Rigaud, Louis XIV   (1701)


Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
(1719)


Velazquez, Les Meninas (1656)


Watteau,  The Embarkation for Cythera (1717)

Key Questions

 

 

 
  • Debate Hobbes' and Locke's visions of human nature and the state.
  • Why was the argument between Hobbes' and Locke's visions of the modern state very timely?
  • Would Rousseau's vision of man in the state of nature be closer to Hobbes or Locke?

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Slave Ship Brookes  (1788)


Fragonard,  The Swing (1767)


Vigée-Lebrun, Self-Portrait, 1790


Chardin,  The Return from Market   (1739)


Velazquez,  Maria Teresa of Spain  (1652)


Watteau, Mezzetin (1717-19)

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Inigo Jones Masques

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Political, Social, Economic, Intellectual, Religious

 Ab/Con Art:

  Ab/Con Literature:

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  - French Revolution

 

 

 

 



David,  Death of Marat (1793)


Execution of Louis XVI
21 January 1793,  from Decaux.


David, Oath of the Horatii  (1784)


David,  Death of Socrates (1786)


David,  Tennis Court Oath  (1789)


Boilly,  A Sans-cullote
 
 
Rude, La Marseillaise, Arc de Triomphe, Paris, 1833-1836.


Statue of Danton in Tarbes.

Key Questions

 

 

 
  • How would Rousseau and Voltaire have analyzed the progressive radicalization of the French Revolution
    and the rise of Napoleon to imperial power?
  • How did the French Revolution inspire Wordsworth and Coleridge to lead a revolution in English poetry?
  • What phrases and images, as well as conception of history, are shared in the millennial early poetry of Blake, Wordsworth, and Coleridge?
  • To what degree was The French Revolution the result of the Enlightenment Era political thought or socio-economic forces?
  • Describe how the rise of Napoleon led to the rise of European nationalism?
  • What influence did French Radicals have on the rise of communism and/or fascism?
  • How did the stages of the French revolution naturally develop over time and what were the response to this change in art, music and literature? (David, Beethoven, Burke, Dickens)

French Rev Political, Social, Economic, Intellectual, Religious

French Rev Art:

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Gros, Napoleon at Arcola. (1796)


David, Napoleon (1800)


Goya, "This is what you were born for" in The Disasters of War : (1820) (historical context)


David, Napoleon  (1812)


 Retreat from Moscow (1812)

 French Rev Political, Social, Economic, Intellectual, Religious

 French Rev Art:

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French Rev Political, Social, Economic, Intellectual, Religious

 French Rev Art:

  French Rev Literature:

 French Rev Music:

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  - Romanticism

 

 

 

 


Friedrich,  Wanderer Above
the Sea of Fog c. 1818


Delacroix, Liberty Leading  the People,  (1830)


Gericault, The Charging Chasseur, 1812

Constable, The Haywain (1821)


Goya, The Sleep of Reason
Produces Monsters, from Los Caprichos, ca. 1798


Fuseli,  The Nightmare, 1781


Goya, The Shootings
of May Third 1808 (1814)


Géricault, Raft of the Medusa (1819)

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Key Questions

 

 

 
  • How do the poems reflect the climate of ideas swirling in Europe during this period of political and philosophical revolution?
  • Why did artists of this era emphasize the use of symbol as the path to truth?
  • How did the philosophy of Romantic philosophers and poets of the late 18th and early 19th century affect a change from Classical to Romantic musical styles and forms?
  • How does the music of Beethoven, Berlioz and Chopin reflect the zeitgeist of the era?
  • In what ways did the development of the piano reflect the zeitgeist of the time?
  • How did Kant's new epistemology bring the Enlightenment experiment to a close?
  • Is Romanticism responsible for the origins of both fascism and the celebration of diversity?
  • How did the German idealists react against Enlightenment mechanistic conceptions of human nature?
  • How do the paintings of Constable, Blake, Freidrich, Delacroix and Gericault use symbol to make a socio-political statement?
  • Discuss how the Enlightenment and Romantic movements are twin ideas recapitulating the historical arguments of the classical world and medieval Europe regarding the nature of man and humanity.

 Romanticism Political, Social, Economic, Intellectual, Religious

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Delacroix, Greek Woman among the Ruins of Missolonghi (1826)


Delacroix, Death of Sardanapalus (1826)


Gros, Napolean Bonaparte Visiting the Victims of the Plague at Jaffa,  (1804)


Delacroix, Women of Algiers (1834)


Delacrox, Bride of Abydos (1857)


Turner,  The Slave Ship (1840)


Turner, The Fighting Temeraire, tugged to her Last Berth to be broken up (1838)


Turner, Rain, Steam and Speed: The Great Western Railway (1844)


Turner, Snowstorm (1842)

Romanticism Political, Social, Economic, Intellectual, Religious

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Romatic Poetry:

Literary Gothic

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Political, Social, Economic, Intellectual, Religious

 Romanticism Art:

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  - Industrial Revolution

 

 

 

 


Eiffel Tower,  Paris, 1889


Turner, The Fighting Temeraire, tugged to her Last Berth to be broken up (1838)


Manet, A Bar at the
Folies-Bergeres (1881-82)


Manchester 1851


Pierdon, "St. Giles" The Rookeries of London.(1850)


Dore  "The Terraces" from London  (1860)

Key Questions

 

 

 
  • What was the impact of the industrial revolution on Europe?  
  • What is the relationship between the changing mode of production and the values and political/social structures being developed in Industrial Europe?
  • In what ways did the changes of the industrial revolution influence the political, social and economic ideas of Europe?
  • What are the connections between the Industrial Revolution and the Age of Imperialism.?

Ind Rev Political, Social, Economic, Intellectual Religious

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Renoir, The Luncheon of the
Boating Party (1881)


Fildes,  Houseless and Hungry,
The Graphic  (12th April, 1869)


Daumier,  The Third Class Carriage  (1863)


Pissaro, L'avenue de l'Opera, Sunlight, Winter Morning. (1898)

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 Ind Rev Art:

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  - 19th c. Isms

 

 

 

 


Delacroix, Liberty Leading  the People,  (1830)


Millet, The Gleaners  (1857)


The Crystal Palace and the 1851 Exhibition


Schinkel, Medieval City on a River  (1815)


Daumier, The Burden (1853)


Daumier,  The Third Class Carriage  (1863)


Frith, The Railway Station  (1862)

Fildes,  Houseless and Hungry,
The Graphic  (12th April, 1869)


Pierdon, "St. Giles" The Rookeries of London.(1850)


Dore  "The Terraces" from London  (1860)


Daumier, The Uprising   (1860)


Monet,  Saint-Lazare Station (1877)


Manet, A Bar at the
Folies-Bergeres (1881-82)


Seurat,  A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte
1884-86


Monet,  La cathedrale de Rouen,  Full Sunlight  1893 (See the whole Cathedral Series)


Rodin,  The Thinker 1880


Rodin, The Burghers of Calais (1888)

Key Questions

 

 

 
  • How did the French Revolution influence the development of 19th century 'isms'?
  • In what ways were 19th century ‘isms’ a response to the philosophical problems and issues arising from the development of scientific rationalism as both the ideas of the Enlightenment and the Romantic movement spread through European society?
  • Why was Romantic music so powerful throughout the 19th century?  What are its connections to 19th century ‘isms’?
  • To what degree did artistic movements react to, embody or influence the various socio-political theories in the 19th century?
  • To what degree were 19th century ‘isms’ either a refinement of previous philosophies or brand new avenues of thought?

 19th c. Isms Political, Social, Economic, Intellectual, Religious

 19th c. Isms Art:

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Marxism:

Anarchism

Darwinism:

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Short Stories:

Poetry:

Novels:

Drama:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nationalism:

Impressionism:

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Rodin, The Kiss (1886)


Van Gogh, The Sower (1888)


Van Gogh, The Starry Night (1889)


Van Gogh, Wheatfield with Crows (1890)

 

 

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  - 19th Century Russia

 

 

 

 


Falconet's Statue of Peter the Great (1788) (painting by Vasily Ivanovich Surikov)


Perov, Feodor Dostoyevsky (1872)


Aivazovsky,  The Ninth Wave,
(1850)


Perov, Village Easter Procession (1861)


Perov, The Threesome, 1866


Repin, Barge Haulers on the Volga  (1870)


Kramskoy, Christ in the Wilderness (1871)

Key Questions

 

 

 
  • What changes in the Russian culture are reflected in the shift in artistic and literary styles over the course of the 19th century?
  • What were the political, social and economic changes occurring in Russia over the course of the 19th Century?
  • To what extent is it possible to say that the ideas of the Enlightenment and subsequent changes of the Industrial Revolution had not yet reached Russia by the end of the 19th century?
  • To what degree did the disconnect between the expression of ‘high’ and ‘common’ culture of 19th century Russia manifested in the structural problems of the Russian Empire?
  • In what ways, was Russia at the end of the 19th century ‘behind’ [backward] the rest of Europe? In what ways were Russian intellectuals contemporary to the rest of European society at the time?
  • What was the relationship between the changing mode of production and the values and political/social structures being developed in Russia?

 19th c. Russia Political, Social, Economic, Intellectual Religious

 19th c. Russia Art:

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Repin, They Did Not Expect Him (1884)


Kramskoy, Village Elder (1873)


Surikov, The Morning of the Execution of the Streltsy. 1881



Surikov. The Boyarynia Morozova. 1887


Repin, Ivan the Terrible  and His Son Ivan: November 16, 1581 (1885)

19th c. Russia Political, Social, Economic, Intellectual Religious

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  - Imperialism

 

 

 

 



The Rhodes Colossus Punch 1892


Alavoine,  Fountain sketch for Place de la Bastille (1814)  (Orientalism)


Girodet, The Burial of Atala (1813)


Delacroix, Death of Sardanapalus (1826)

Key Questions

 

 

 
  • What were the philosophical underpinnings behind European expansion?
  • What is the relationship between Europe’s changing mode of production/ status in the world and the values and political/social structures being developed in Europe?
  • How were European attitudes towards non-European peoples reflected in the art, music and literature of the period?
  • To what extent does Conrad argue against colonialism and imperialism?  To what extent is Conrad simply a product of his time?
  • What was the impact of Imperialism on both the colonizer and the colonized?  How was this expressed?
  • How were 19th century ‘isms’ used by contemporary imperialists?

 Imperialism Political, Social, Economic, Intellectual Religious

 Imperialism  Art:

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Delacroix, Entry of the Crusaders into Constantinople (1840)


Delacroix,  Tiger Hunt (1846) (More Delacroix)


Gerome, Harem Pool (1876)


Gauguin, We Hail Thee Mary
(1891)


Picasso, Self-Portrait (1907)


Mask  Kete people  Congo

 Political, Social, Economic, Intellectual Religious

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  - World War One

 

 

 

 



Beckmann,  The Shell (1915)


Faivre, "On les aura!" (1916)


Boccioni, Unique Forms of Continuity in Space, 1913


Partridge, Sir Bernard, "Take Up the Sword of Justice" Parliamentary Recruiting Committee, London
1915 (June)


‘Lord Kitchener Wants You’ poster of 1914
Ernst, Murdering Airplane (1920)

Key Questions

 

 

 
  • What were the causes of World War I?
  • To what extent was World War I simply the contradictions within the 19th century western tradition coming to conflict in Europe?
  • How was World War I a watershed event in destroying the progressive notion of European civilization's development?  How was this expressed in the differences between the pre- and post-European artistic, musical and literary views of/within Europe?
  • What were the repercussions of 'The Great War' on European society?  Did The Great War really usher Europe into the 'modern age'?
  • In what ways was World War I a watershed event politically, socially , economically and militarily?

WWI Political, Social, Economic, Intellectual Religious

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Kipling, “The Islanders” (1902) on the Boer War

 

WWI Poetry :

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Dada,  Surrealism, and the Avant-Garde:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Haussman, The Spirit of Our Times  (1921)


Nevinson, Paths of Glory (1917)


Kirchner,  Selbstbildnis als Soldat  (1915)


 Sargent, Gassed, (1918-19)


Dix, Skull (1924)

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Moor, Have You Volunteered?  1920.


Malevich, Red Square (1915)


 Tatlin, Model for
Monument to the Third International (1919)


Russia Eyes


Voron, For Shock-Brigade Reaping and for a Bolshevik Harvest  Poster. 1934


Poster for Eisenstein's October (1928)

Key Questions

 

 

 
  • What was the relationship between the mode of production and the values and political/social structures of Imperial Russia? How did this shift over the course of the 1920s and 1930s?
  • To what degree was the Russian Revolution caused by the stress and impact of World War I, the failures of modernization attempts, and/or the ineptitude of Nicholas II?
  • To what degree were the revolutions of 1917 popular movements for change?
  • What was the impact of the Russian Revolution on Russian society? On artistic expression? On history?
  • How has the history of the Russian Revolution been refashioned and used by subsequent generations for their own contemporary purposes?
  • How did the Bolsheviks use artistic expression in literature, art and music to bolster their ideology and solidify their regime?

Russian Rev Political, Social, Economic, Intellectual Religious

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  • Prokofiev, Symphony #1 in D maj, "Classical" (1917) 1. allegro 2. larghetto 3. gavotta  4. finale ; "The Nose"
  • Prokofiev, Piano Concerto #3 in C major (1921) 1. 2. 3.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Mukhina, Worker and Collective Farm Girl  (1937)


Fomin, Abrosimov, Minkus, Commissariat of Heavy Industry, Perspective, 1934

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·         Trotsky on Blok’s The Twelve from Literature and Revolution (1924)

·         Kelly, “A Great Russian Prophet” (on Anna Akhmatova) (2005); “Brave New Worlds” (on Revolutionary Utopianism) (1990)

·         Mayakovsky, On Futurism (1922)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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  - Modern Thought


Brancusi, Bird in Space, 1923


Cezanne, Mont Sainte-Victoire
(1897)


Munch, The Scream (1893)


Rousseau, Sleeping Gypsy (1897)


Monet, Water Lilies (1906)


Picasso,  Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907)


Klimt,  The Kiss  (1907-08)


Gaudi, Casa Batlo (1906)


Matisse, La Danse (I) (1909)

 
Boccioni The City Rises (1910)

Key Questions
  • Why did the idea of the 'irrational' and the 'unconscious' develop at the end of the 19th century?  How was this 'modern thought' expressed artistically?
  • In responding to new influences from within and without Europe, in what ways did 20th century artists reject and/or modify established traditions of artistic expressions in their search for new ways of expressions?
  • How did 'modern thought' influence and support the rise of fascism, communism and totalitarianism in the 20th century?
  • In what ways is Conrad the bridge between 19th century and 20th century thought?
  • What major changes in artistic expression (art and music) accompanied the shift from the more classically focused artistic movements of the 19th century to 'modern' art and music?

Modern Political, Social, Economic, Intellectual Religious

 Modern Art:

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Freud:

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de Chirico,  Mystery and
Melancholy of a Street  1914.



Picasso, Girl w/ Mandolin (1910)


Charlie Chaplin and Jackie Coogan in The Kid (1921)
Early Film Projector


Picasso, Still Life  with Bowl and Fruit (1912)


Modigliani, Reclining Nude, 1917


Magritte. The Treachery of Images (La trahison des images) (1928–1929)

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  - Between the Wars
 

 

 

 

 


Picasso, Guernica detail (1938)


Boccioni, Unique Forms of Continuity in Space, 1913


Fascist Propaganda Poster (1933)


Beckmann,  Dancing Bar in Baden-Baden 1923


Poster for Der Blaue Engel (The Blue Angel), directed by Josef von Sternberg, 1930.


Grosz, Republican Automotons (1920)


Miro,  The Farm (1921-22)


Gaudi, Sagrada Familia (1882-1926)


Kandinsky, Composition 8 (1923)


Heartfield, Adolph the Superman (1932)

 
Dali, Soft Construction with Boiled Beans (Premonition of Civil War) (1936)


Gropius, Bauhaus (1919-25)

 
Mostra della Riooluzione Fascista  (1933)

Key Questions

 

 

 
  • Describe the rise of fascism and totalitarianism in Europe following World War I.  Why did people turn to these socio-political systems for answers in the wake of Worlds War I?  What was the appeal of these socio-political systems?
  • Following an era in which Nietzsche declared 'God is Dead', describe the ways in which these socio-political systems filled the void vacated by a conscious withdrawal from traditional religion.
  • How was the utter loss of faith in Western civilization expressed in the art, literature and music of the period?
  • Was there any hope after 'The War to End All Wars'?
  • How was artistic expression used to support and attack fascist, communist, totalitarian and Nazi ideology?
  • To what extent was the situation in Europe more unstable during the inter-war years than in the years leading up to World War I?

 BTW Political, Social, Economic, Intellectual Religious

 BTW Art:

 BTW Literature:

 BTW Music:

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Liberalism:

Fascism/Nazism

Conservatism:

Marxism:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

High Modernism:

Futurism, Surrealism

Expressionism:

  • Kirchner, Selbstbildnis als Soldat (1915)
  • Beckmann, The Descent from the Cross (1917); Dancing Bar in Baden-Baden (1923)

Marxism:

Fascism/ Nazism

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fiction:

Drama:

Poetry:

Film:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Picasso, The Dance (1925)

Picasso, Three Musicians (1921)


Klutsis, The USSR is the crack brigade of the world proletariat (1931)


Nuremberg Rally from Triumph of the Will (1934)


Nazi Nuremberg Rally (1936)


Staluter, Hans. "The Eternal Jew." Poster. 1937. Hoover Institution.


The People's Car (Volkswagen) (1936)


Speer, The Berlin Dome, "The Empire of Light" (1937)

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 BTW Art:

 BTW Literature:

 BTW Music:

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 BTW Political, Social, Economic, Intellectual Religious

 BTW Art:

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  - World War Two

 

 

 

 


Hitler


Stalin

Key Questions

 

 

 
  • What were the causes of World War II?
  • In what ways was World War II an example of the attitudes of European imperialism unleashed on the European continent (nationalism, social Darwinism, colonization, superiority complexes, and ideological struggles)?
  • What were the repercussions of World War II towards the outlook of European philosophers?
  • Can World War I and World War II be considered one great war over the 'soul' of Europe?
  • To what degree are the inherent contradictions of the Western tradition exemplified by the conflicting ideologies of the Nazis (nature) and Soviets (nurture)?
  • Based on understanding the literature, propaganda, history and culture of Germany, why/how did the Holocaust happen?  Why do you think German men and women participated?

 WWII Political, Social, Economic, Intellectual Religious

 WWII Art:

 WWII Literature:

 WWII Music:


Churchill


Sauter, The Eternal Soldier (1940)

German Youth Magazine Der Plimpf (1943)

Lanzinger, "The Standard Bearer" 

The Soviet Paradise (Nazi War Propaganda)

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  • Messiaen, Quartet for the End of Time (1940)
  • Prokofiev, "Ivan the Terrible" (1941)
  • Katchaturian, Sabre Dance from Gayan (1942)
  • Shostakovich,  Symphony # 8  1. Adagio- Allegro nontroppo (1943)
  • Britten, War Requiem
  • Paderewski Concerts for War Relief
  • Jewish Partisan Songs
  • Brundibar (a children's opera which was produced in Terezin Concentration camp)
  • Barber, Second Essay, op. 17 (1942)
  • Copland, Sonata

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


"We'll Defend Moscow!" (1941)

"Forward to the West!" (1942)


Deineka, The River (1944)  

WWII Political, Social, Economic, Intellectual Religious

 WWII Art:

 WWII Literature:

 WWII Music:

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Rockwell, Save Freedom of Speech; Buy War Bonds. 1943


Rockwell,  "Ours to Fight For"

 WWII Political, Social, Economic, Intellectual Religious

 WWII Art:

  WWII Literature:

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  - Cold War

 

 

 

 


The 1954 nuclear test bomb that destroyed Bikini Atoll



Pollock, Enchanted Forest (1947)


Giacometti, Man Pointing 1947


Rothko, (No. 14) 1960

LeCorbusier, Notre Dame du Haut, Ronchamp, 1950-54 


Bacon,  Painting, 1946

Key Questions

 

 

 
  • What was the ideological split of Europe during the Cold War and how was this expressed economically, politically, socially and artistically?
  • What factors contributed to the Cold War and to what extent was it a struggle over the meaning of the Enlightenment?
  • Did the end of the Cold War signify the final destruction of the ideology of Communism?
  • What was the impact of the Cold War on Europe? On the world?

 Cold War Political, Social, Economic, Intellectual Religious

 Cold War Art:

Cold War Literature:

 Cold War Music:

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Levi-Strauss, The Savage Mind (Le Pensee sauvage)
Lorenz, On Aggression (Das sogenannte Boese)

Foucault, Madness and civilization: A history of insanity in the Age of Reason

Berlin, Four Essays on Liberty

Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A report on the banality of evil

Nozick, Anarchy, State and Utopia
Rawls, A Theory of Justice

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

Novels:

Short Stories:

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de Kooning, Woman V (1952-53)


Newman, Concord ( (1949)

Cold War Political, Social, Economic, Intellectual Religious Thought:

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 Cold War Political, Social, Economic, Intellectual Religious

 Cold War Art:

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Lesson Plans and Presentations:

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  - Present

 

 

 

 



Warhol, no title, 1967


Goldsworthy, Lightning Tree (2005)


Gehry, Guggenheim Museum,
Bilbao, Spain, 1997.


 Serra, Tilted Arc (1981-89)


Glass, Einstein on the Beach (1976)

Chuck Close, Self Portrait (1997)

Chuck Close, Self Portrait (detail) (1997)

Key Questions

 

 

 
  • Is the developing concept of the European Union a glimpse of the future in Europe?  A fusion of European ideas and concepts? A fruitless experiment? A culmination of the Western tradition?
  • Is the Western Tradition heading inexorably toward a democratic, enlightened socio-political system?
  • To what extent do the Balkans provide an example of Europe's future? An exception to? An expression of intractable problems of just the repercussions of post-imperialism?
  • Why is it not surprising that Europe is generally more committed to the idea of the United Nations, less religiously focused, and socially and politically liberal-democratic at the end of the 20th century?
  • Is Turkey European?  If so or if not, what does it then mean to be European (i.e. Western)?

 Present Political, Social, Economic, Intellectual Religious

 Present Art:

 Present Literature:

 Present Music:

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Politics:

Havel, Living in Truth
Hawking, A Brief History of Time
Kennedy, The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers
Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Rorty, Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature

Science:

Philosophy:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Theatre:

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 Present Political, Social, Economic, Intellectual Religious

 Present Art:

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 Present Political, Social, Economic, Intellectual Religious

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The Artifact Essay Assignment

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