HU Credits: 2

Degree/Cycle: 1st degree (Bachelor)

Responsible Department: "Amirim" Honors Program

Semester: 2nd Semester

Teaching Languages: Hebrew

Campus: Mt. Scopus

Course/Module Coordinator: Prof. Gal Ventura

Coordinator Email: gal.ventura@mail.huji.ac.il

Coordinator Office Hours: Sunady, 11-12, room 6830

Teaching Staff:
Prof Gal Ventura

Course/Module description:
This course is devoted to urban Parisian culture, developed during the second half of the 19th century, under Napoleon III's reign and the Baron Haussmann's patronage. The course will examine the urban and social changes seen in the rise of leisure, consumerism, journalism and transport that Paris went through during the Second Empire and the Third Republic. Special attentions will be devoted to the term "modernité", while discussing the democratization of culture, highly relevant today.

Course/Module aims:
The course is designed to provide stimulating discussions on 19th century French art and culture, while developing skills of critical observation of images and texts. A central aim is to stimulate small-group learning, exchange of ideas, and testing of interdisciplinary methods of work; Develop knowledge and understanding of the cultural and artistic origins of modernity and modernism; Understanding of historical processes, including social, economic, cultural, political, intellectual and gender; Reflect critically on differing interpretations of 19th century art and culture.

Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
Course learning outcomes: Have gained knowledge of a range of 19th century artistic, literary, historical and political data, highly relevant today; Have gained an understanding of the cultural, social and historical context in which works of art are produced and read; Have demonstrated awareness and understanding of relevant methodologies and theories in Art History and Visual Studies

Attendance requirements(%):
100

Teaching arrangement and method of instruction: Frontal teaching and active student participation

Course/Module Content:
Preface: Democratization and Modernization of culture, Sociology of leisure
The Second Empire: Modernity and Parisian Life
• Leisure: coffee houses, theaters, public gardens and brothels
• Consumerism and the department stores: "I Buy therefore I am"
• Press and transport
• The Exposition Universelle

Required Reading:
• בודלר, שארל, צייר החיים המודרניים, 1863 (Le Figaro), (בני-ברק, 2003), 25-20, 51-46, 71-62, 97-81.
• Gluck, Mary. "The flâneur and the aesthetic appropriation of urban culture in mid nineteenth-century Paris,” in Theory, Culture, and Society 20 (5), (October 2003): 53-80.
• Forgione, Nancy, “Everyday Life in Motion: The Art of Walking in Late-Nineteenth-Century Paris,” The Art Bulletin 87 (4), (Dec., 2005): 664-687.
• Lenard Davis, “The Social Construction of Public Locations,” Browning Institute Studies 17 (Victorian Popular Culture, 1989): 23-40.
• גיאורג זימל, "העיר הגדולה וחיי הנפש", בתוך: אורבניזם: הסוציולוגיה של העיר המודרנית (תל-אביב: רסלינג, 2004), 40-23. תדפיס אלקטרוני 000524030
• David Harvey, “The Right to the City,” New Left Review 53 (September 2008): 23-40.
• שמיר, חיים, "המהפכה הפריסאית של הברון אוסמן: בינוייה מחדש של עיר אירופאית גדולה," זמנים 2, 1980: 54-44.
• פנופסקי, ארווין, "איקונוגרפיה ואיקונולוגיה: מבוא לחקר אמנות הרנסנס," המדרשה 12 (סתיו 2009): 93-69.
• Margraw, Roger, "The Birth of Consumer Society?", France 1800-1914: A Social History (London: Pearson Education, 2002), 295-311.
• Chaney, David, "The Department Store as a Cultural Form," Theory, Culture and Society 1 (3), (1983): 22-31.
• בנדיקט אנדרסון, "שורשים תרבותיים," בתוך: קהיליות מדומיינות, תרגום: דן דאור (תל-אביב, האוניברסיטה הפתוחה, 2000), 68-39. תדפיס אלקטרוני + JC 311 A6561 1999
• Anderson, Benedict, "Memory and Forgetting," Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (London: Verso, 1991), 1-36.
• Iskin, Ruth, "Selling, Seduction, and Soliciting the Eye: Manet's Bar at the Folies-Bergère," The Art Bulletin 77 (1), (March 1995): 25-44.
• Boime, Albert, "Manet's "Un bar au Folies-Bergère," as an Allegory of Nostalgia," Zeitschrift fur Kunstgeschichte 56 (2), (1993): 234-248.
• Crary, Jonathan, "Techniques of the Observer," October 45 (1988): 3-35.
• Strenberger, Dolf and Joachim Neugroschel, "Panorama of the 19th Century," October 4 (Autumn 1977): 3-20.
• בנימין, וולטר, "פריס, בירת המאה התשע-עשרה", בתוך הרהורים, מבחר כתבים (תרגם: דוד זינגר), (תל-אביב: הקיבוץ המאוחד, 2004), 40-23.
• אופיר, עדי, "פוסט מודרניזם: עמדה פילוסופית," מתוך: אילן גור-זאב (עורך), חינוך בעידן
השיח הפוסטמודרניסטי, תל-אביב, 1997, עמ' 163-135.

Additional Reading Material:
גוטיה, תיאופיל, "שום דבר אינו יפה באמת, אלא אם אינו מועיל כלל", מתוך המבוא לנובלה העלמה דה מופן, 1835 (תירגמה מצרפתית ליאורה בינג היידקר), הארץ, מדור תרבות וספרות, 7 באוקטובר 2011.
דבור, גי, חברת הראווה, תל אביב: בבל, 2001.
זימל, גיאורג, "העיר וחיי הנפש", אורבניזם: הסוציולוגיה של העיר המודרנית, תל-אביב: רסלינג, 2004.
מלמן, בילי, "קפיטליזם גדול: קריסטל פאלאס, 1851", מתוך לונדון: מקום, אנשים ואימפריה, 1960-1800, תל-אביב: האוניברסיטה המשודרת, 2009, 128-106.
עמישי-מייזלש, זיוה (עורכת). שער לאמנות המודרנית, אמנות המאה התשע עשרה. ירושלים: מאגנס, 2010.
צוקרמן, משה, "חרושת התרבות," פרקים בסוציולוגיה של האמנות, תל-אביב, 1996, 68-58.

Auerbach, Jeffrey A. The Great Exhibition of 1851: A Nation on Display. New Haven, 1999.
Armstrong, Carol, "Against the Grain: J.K. Huysmans and the 1886 Series of Nudes," in Odd Man Out (Chicago, 1991), 157-209.
Bauman, Zygmunt, "Industrialism, Consumerism and Power," Theory, Culture and Society 1 (3), (1983), 32-43.
Bellet, Roger. Presse et Journalisme sous la second empire, Paris: A. Colin, 1967.
Benjamin, Walter, “The Paris of the Second Empire in Baudelaire,” in: The Writer of Modern Life Essays on Charles Baudelaire, Michael Jennings ed. and Howard Eiland, Edmond Jephcott, Rodney Livington, and Harry Zohn, trans. Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2006, 46-133.
Boime, Albert. Art and the French Commune: Imagining Paris After War and Revolution. Princeton, N. J.: Princeton University Press, 1995.
Boime, Albert. Revelation of Modernism:‎ Responses to Cultural Crises in Fin-de-Siècle Painting. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2008.
Bowlby, Rachel, Just Looking: Consumer Culture in Dreiser, Gissing and Zola, New York and London: Methuen, 1985.
Broude, Norma and Mary D. Garrard (eds.). Feminism and Art History: Questioning the Litany. New York, 1982.
Broude, Norma and Mary D. Garrard (eds.). The Expanding Discourse: Feminism and Art History. New York, 1992.
Broude, Norma, “Mary Cassatt: Modern Woman or the Cult of True Womanhood?”, Woman’s Art Journal 21 (2), (Autumn, 2000), 36-43.
Brown, Jack Perry, "The Return of the Salon: Jean Léon Gérôme in the Art Institute", Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 15 (2), 1989, 154-173, 180-181.
Burcharth, Ewa Lajer, "Modernity and the Condition of Disguise: Manet’s 'Absinthe Drinker'," Art Journal 45, Spring 1985, 18-26.
Clark, Timothy J. The Painting of Modern Life: Paris in the Art of Manet and his Followers. Princeton, 1984.
Clark, T.J., "The View from Notre-Dame," in Vanessa Schwartz and Jeannene M. Przyblyski (eds.), The Nineteenth Century Visual Culture Reader (New York: Routledge, 2004), 178-193.
Cooke, Peter, "Gustave Moreau's 'œdipus and the Sphinx': Archaism, Temptation and the Nude at the Salon of 1864", The Burlington Magazine 146 (1218), September 2004, 609-615.
Crapo, Paul B., "The Problematics of Artistic Patronage under the Second Empire: Gustave Courbet's Involved Relations with the Regime of Napoleon III", Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte 58, 1995, 240-261.
Denvir, Bernard. The Chronicle of Impressionism: An Intimate Diary of the Lives and World of the Great Artists. London, 2000.
Doy, Gen. Women and Visual Culture in 19th Century France, 1800-1852, Leicester University Press, 2001.
D’Souza, Aruna and Tom McDonough, eds. The Invisible Flâneuse? Gender, Public Space and Visual Culture in Nineteenth-Century Paris. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2008.
Eisenman, Stephen F. Nineteenth Century Art: A Critical Survey. London, 1994.
Forgione, Nancy, "The Shadow Only”: Shadow and Silhouette in Late Nineteenth-Century Paris, The Art Bulletin 81 (3), (Sep., 1999), 490-512.
Fried, Michael. Manet’s Modernism, or, The Face of Painting in the 1860s. Chicago, 1996.
Garb, Tamar. Sisters of the Brush, New Haven, 1994.
Gluck, Mary. "The flâneur and the aesthetic appropriation of urban culture in mid nineteenth-century Paris,” in Theory, Culture, and Society 20 (2003), 53-80.
Harvey, David. Paris, Capital of Modernity. New York: Routledge, 2003.
Herbert, Robert L. Impressionism: Art, Leisure, and Parisian Society. New Haven, 1988.
Iskin, Ruth E. Modern Women and Parisian Consumer Culture in Impressionist Painting. New York, 2007.
Krauss, Rosalind. The Originality of the Avant-Garde and Other Modernist Myths, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 1985.
Krell, Alan. Manet and the Painters of Contemporary Life. London, 1996.
McMillan, James F. France and Women, 1789-1914: Gender, Society and Politics. London, 2000.
Nochlin, Linda. The Politics of Vision: Essays on Nineteenth-Century Art and Society. London, 1991.
Pollock, Griselda. “Modernity and the Spaces of Femininity.” In Vision and Difference: Feminism, Femininity and the Histories of Art, 70-127. New York: Routledge Classics, 1988.
Prendergast, Christopher. “Parisian Identities” in Paris and the Nineteenth Century (Oxford : Blackwell, 1995).
Rewald, John. The History of Impressionism. New York, 1973.
Taylor, Joshua C. (ed.). Nineteenth-Century Theories of Art. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1987.
The New Painting: Impressionism, 1874-1886 (exhibition catalogue). Washington D.C., Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco and National Gallery of Art, no. 110, 1986.
Wechsler, Judith. A Human Comedy, Physiognomy and Caricature in 19th Century Paris. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1982.
Wilson, Elisabeth, "The Invisible Flaneur," The Contradictions of Culture: Cities, Culture, Women (London: Sage, 2001), 72-94.
Willms, Johannes. Paris, Capital of Europe:‎ From the Revolution to the Belle Epoque (trans. Eveline L. Kanes). New York: Holmes & Meier, 1997.

Course/Module evaluation:
End of year written/oral examination 0 %
Presentation 0 %
Participation in Tutorials 0 %
Project work 80 %
Assignments 20 %
Reports 0 %
Research project 0 %
Quizzes 0 %
Other 0 %

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