ARTARCH 3838 Modern Art in fin-de-siecle Europe  Tags: art_history nineteenth_century european_art  

This course examines artistic production at the turn of the century in France, Belgium, England and Scandinavia. Beginning with the re-evaluation of impressionism and naturalism in France, we examine Neo-Impressionism (Seurat and Signac) and Symbolism (Moreau, Van Gogh, Gauguin, the Nabis, Rodin, Munch), as well as later careers of Impressionists (Cassatt, Monet, Degas, Renoir). Considers cross-national currents of Symbolism in Belgium and Scandanavia; the Aesthetic Movement in Britain; the rise of expressionist painting in French art (particularly with the Fauvism of Matisse and Derain), and the juncture of modernist primitivism and abstraction in early Cubism (Picasso).

This is the library research guide for Professor Elizabeth Child's course Art History & Archaeology 3838, Modern Art in fin-de-siecle Europe, 1880-1907.

Please let Kasia Leousis know if you have any questions about the guide, WU Library services, or research in art history.