BY SITE

University of Michigan Arts in Paris Program Summer 2016 Howard Lay ([email protected]) Abi Celis ([email protected])

This course is an on-site introduction to the city of Paris, as well as its principal , , and edifices. It is designed to familiarize students with the urban landscape, and to make of their routine navigation of the city an opportunity for ongoing lessons in architectural history, social and cultural geography, urbanization, and city planning.

Classes consist of a wide range of topics that focus on particular aspects of the Parisian cityscape. The objective is both to understand the historical and material determinants behind the building of Paris, and to track the changing significance of urban sites through time. The art historical and museological component of the course involves direct encounters with artworks, as well as a wide variety of exhibition spaces. Special attention is devoted to understanding the ways in which cultural institutions are devised to transmit master narratives having to do with history, religion, patriotism, and nationalism.

Students are encouraged to record and share their various expeditions and experiences in writing and photographs—and to engage those aspects of the city that have less to do with famous monuments and more to do with the texture and fabric of daily life. For foreigners invested in learning the city, it is particularly important to understand that even banal observations can lead to a more rewarding and informed cultural experience.

Course requirements:

1. Regular attendance of, preparation for, and active participation in both class and site visits (counts for 20% of final grade). 2. Two blog entries, the first of which is due on July 8, and the second on July 24 (each one counts for 20% of final grade). 3. Two take-home tests due on July 13 and July 29 respectively (each test counts for 20% of final grade).

Readings and Resources:

All required readings are available online under the “Resources” menu of the Paris by Site 2016 CTools site. Additional course resources (including reference materials, lecture images, assignments, related readings, etc.) are also available under the “Resources” menu.

CLASS SCHEDULE AND REQUIRED READINGS

June 22, 23, 24: Ancient and Medieval Paris

Wednesday, June 22, 10:00-12:00, Lecture/Discussion in the Accent Classroom. 1:45–4:00: Site visit to the Musée National du Moyen Age (Hôtel de Cluny) and walking tour of the 5e arrondissement. Thursday, June 23, 2:00: Site Visit to the Chateau de Vincennes. Friday, June 24, 2:15: Site Visit to the Musée National d’Histoire Naturelle.

Reading Assignments: For Wednesday, review the website Paris: A Roman City (www.culture.gouv.fr/culture/arcnat/paris/en/index.html). For Thursday, read Jean-François Losnier, “The Story of Vincennes.”

June 27, 28, 29, 30, July 1, 2: Ancien Régime / Révolution

Monday, June 27, 2:00–4:00: Lecture/Discussion in the Accent Classroom. Tuesday, June 28, 11:00: Site Visit to Versailles. Wednesday, June 29, 2:00: Site Visit to the Notre-Dame and Sainte-Chapelle Thursday, June 30, 4:30: Site Visit to the Musée du . Friday, July 1, 6:30, Site Visit to the Musée du Louvre. Saturday, July 2, 9:00, Day Trip to Fontainebleau and Vaux le Vicomte. Sunday, July 3, 9:00, Site Visit to the Musée de l’Orangerie.

Reading Assignments: For Monday, read Colin Jones, Paris: The Biography of a City, “Introduction” and Michael Belcher, “Types of Exhibitions.” For Tuesday, read Jacques Levron, “Daily Life at Versailles in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries” and the Versailles Overview (Oxford Art Online). For Wednesday, read the U of M Guide to Medieval Paris, entries for “Notre-Dame de Paris” and “Royal Palace and the Sainte-Chapelle.” For Thursday, read Robert Darnton, “What was Revolutionary about the French Revolution?” For Friday, read Thomas Crow, “Patriotism and Virtue.”

Saturday, July 2, TTBD: Day Trip to Fontainebleau and Vaux-le- Vicomte. Please read the Fountainebleau and Vaux-le- Vicomte overviews.

Sunday, July 3, 9:00: Site Visit to the Musée de l’Orangerie (Monet’s Water Lilies). Please look over the Orangerie’s website.

July 4, 5, 6, 7, 8: Imperial Paris

Monday, July 4, 2:00: Lecture/Discussion in the Accent Classroom. Tuesday, July 5, 2:00: Site Visit to the Musée de l’Armée and Les Invalides. Wednesday, July 6, 2:00: Site Visit to the Musée Moreau and the Musée de la Vie Romantique. Thursday, July 7, 2:00: Site Visit to the . Friday, July 8, 2:00: Site Visit to the Musée des Arts Forains.

Reading Assignments: For Monday, read Sharon Macdonald, “Museums, National, Postnational, and Transcultural Identities.” For Tuesday, read Richard D. E. Burton, “Vendôme/Invalides: The Paris of the Bonapartes (1802–1871).” For Wednesday, read the biographies of Gustave Moreau and Ary Scheffer. For Thursday, read Gérard Fontaine, “The Phantoms of the Opera.”

Friday, July 8: First Blog Entry Due by Midnight

Friday, July 8: Take-Home Test One Assigned

July 11, 12, 13: (For and Against) Modernity

Monday, July 11, 2:00: Lecture/Discussion in the Accent Classroom. Tuesday, July 12, 2:00: Site Visit to the Musée de and the Basilica of the Sacré-Coeur. Wednesday, July 13, 2:00: Site Visit to the Musée d’Orsay. Thursday, July 14, Day, Classes do not meet. 10:00am: Military Parade on the Champs-Elysées. 10:30pm: Fireworks at the . Friday, July 15: Class does not meet.

Readings: For Monday, read David Harvey, “The Building of the Basilica of Sacré-Coeur.” and For Tuesday, read Howard Lay, “Pictorial Acrobatics.” For Wednesday, read Stephen Eisenman, “The Rhetoric of Realism.”

Wednesday, July 13: Take-Home Test One Due by Midnight.

July 18, 19, 20, 21, 22: Colonial Paris

Monday, July 18, 2:00: Lecture/Discussion in the Accent Classroom. Tuesday, July 19, 2:00: Site Visit to the Musée du Quai Branly. Wednesday, July 20, 2:00: Site Visit to the Musée Picasso. Thursday, July 21, 4:00, Site Visit to the Musée des Arts et Métiers. Friday, July 22, TTBA: Site Visit to the Grande Mosquée

Reading Assignments: For Tuesday, read Alexandre Sauvage, “Narratives of Colonization” and Michael Kimmelman, “Art: A Heart of Darkness in the City of Light.” For Wednesday, read Niru Ratnam, “Dusty Mannequins: Modern Art and Primitivism” and the biography of Pablo Picasso. For Friday, read Moustafa Bayoumi, “Shadows and Light: Colonial Modernity and the Grande Mosquée of Paris.”

Saturday, July 23, 9:00: Day Trip to Chantilly. Please read the Chantilly overview.

Sunday, July 24, Second Blog Entry Due by Midnight

Sunday, July 24, Take-Home Test Two Assigned

July 25, 26, 27, 28: Waste and Death

Monday, July 25, 2:00: Lecture/Discussion in the Accent Classroom. Tuesday, July 26, 2:00: Site Visit to les Egouts de Paris. Wednesday, July 27, 2:00: Walking Tour of Père Lachaise Cemetery. Thursday, July 28, 4:00: Site Visit to the Catacombes de Paris.

Reading Assignments: For Tuesday, read Donald Reid, “The Visit.” For Wednesday and Thursday, read Richard D. E. Burton, “Killing the Living, Burying the Dead.”

Friday, July 29: Take-Home Test Two Due by Midnight

Saturday, July 30: Celebratory Farewell Dinner

Sunday, July 31: Departure