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Neoclassicism to Realism Neoclassicism to Realism + Class code ARTH-UA9411-001 Instructor Details Professor Barbara SHAPIRO COMTE [email protected] Office location: Room 4.09 Office hours: Wednesdays, 18h-19h, or by appointment Class Details Neoclassicism to Realism (Spring 2016) Wednesdays: NYU/P in-house lectures 15h00-18h00; museum visits: 15h30-18h30 sharp unless otherwise indicated on your separate MUSEUM VISITS HANDOUT NYU/P classroom location: 4.11 TBC For specific museum meeting points, consult Museum Visits Schedule handout. KINDLY REMEMBER TO BRING YOUR NYUPARIS ID CARDS TO ALL MUSEUM VISITS TO ENSURE FREE STUDENT ENTRIES. To validate it with a special sticker, see Jonathan Gonçalves, NYUP WELCOME CENTRE. Prerequisites Enthusiasm for the subject and approach; active participation in class sessions and museum visits; serious commitment to readings and timely fulfillment of course assignments. Class Description Our course explores the dramatic evolution of French art and architecture across some 150 tumultuous years, from the death of Louis XIV into the age of Enlightenment and Neoclassicism (1715-1780s), through the age of revolutions (1789-1848) when radical iconography is invented for the new Republic and the rise of the avant-garde, to the demise of Napoleon III’s Second Empire (1851-1870) when effects of the Workers Revolution and modernization of Paris converge, pretext for demographic and sociopolitical controls. We examine the ways by which both official “academic” and subversive art, architecture, and diverse media─painting, drawing, sculpture, popular prints, caricatures; royal palaces, public monuments, private residences; lithography and photography─operate as a potent discursive programme within French society and a probe for investigating power and representation, tradition and change, and class divisions. Thereby multiple "voices" are heard out, from monarchs, emperors, Revolutionaries and Republicans to Marxists, capitalists, the bourgeoisie, and working class, including disenfranchised women. Hence the role of art as a dense symbolic language of communication, persuasion, and propaganda, and/or a critique of prevailing social and moral values dominates our study. Illustrated, interactive, weekly lectures are complemented by seminar discussions, collaborative museums visits, and independent or group excursions in Paris (including Musée du Louvre, Musée de l’Armée/Hôtel national des Invalides, and Musée d’Orsay), nearby outskirts (Château de Versailles and Château de Malmaison at Rueil-Malmaison), and special seasonal exhibitions. Conducted in English. Desired Outcomes •Familiarity with art history methods and theories, aids to our understanding of art as a systematic, formal, visual language of communication. •Awareness of the representation of power and its diffusion as a result of persuasive, multi-media artistic control, official or popular. •Understanding the means by which we perceive and decode visual media, and recognize their influence over our perceptions of the global world. •An enduring passion for French art through dynamic classes and personal confrontations with original works of art and sites of artistic production. Assessment Requirements & grading based on continuous evaluation Components • Quarter-term visual analysis (4pp) adapting art history terms to one original artwork (Louvre): 20% • Midterm take-home exam related to artworks studied & assigned readings: 30% • Two-part final exam based on take-home essays (6pp) + in-class quiz: 20% + 20% = 40% • Presence & active participation in class & museum visits: 10% Failure to submit or fulfil any required course component results in failure of the course. Assessment Expectations *SEE “GRADING POLICY” BELOW. Grade A: Excellent work Grade B: Very good work Grade C: Satisfactory work Grade D: Passable work Grade F: Failure to attain a passable level of work Grade Conversion A = 16 Félicitations/Congratulations A- = 15 Excellent B+ = 14 Très bien/Very good B = 13 Bien/Good B- = 12 Encourageant/Assez bien/Encouraging work/Quite good C+ = 11 Moyen plus/Above average C = 10 Moyen/Average C- = 9 Passable/Passing grade D+ = 8 D = 7 D- = 6 Grading Policy* NYU Paris aims to have grading standards and results in all its courses similar to those that prevail at Washington Square. Attendance Policy Study abroad at Global Academic Centers is an academically intensive and immersive experience, in which students from a wide range of backgrounds exchange ideas in discussion-based seminars. Learning in such an environment depends on the active participation of all students. And since classes typically meet once or twice a week, even a single absence can cause a student to miss a significant portion of a course. To ensure the integrity of this academic experience, class attendance at the centers is mandatory, and unexcused absences will affect students' semester grades. Students are responsible for making up any work missed due to absence. Repeated absences in a course may result in failure. As per the Global Academic standard, unexcused absences will be penalized with a two percent deduction from the student’s final course grade1. Other guidelines specific to NYUParis include: Attendance to class and all course-related events, even outside of regularly scheduled course times, is expected and mandatory. Some class outings/make-up classes take place on Fridays Under no circumstances will non-University-related travel constitute an excused absence from class. DO NOT book travel until you have received and carefully studied the syllabus of each of your classes. If you are not sick enough to go to the doctor, you are well enough to go to class. Doctor’s notes will be expected for all medical-related absences. No tests, quizzes, or exams will be made up. A missed test, quiz, or exam will result in a zero. Questions about this policy should be directed to the Academic Affairs team, not your professor. Late Submission Unless for medical reasons (confirmed by a doctor’s certificate), late submissions are not accepted and of Work result in failure of the course. Plagiarism Policy New York University in Paris, as an academic community, is committed to free and open inquiry, to creating an intellectual and social environment that promotes this, and to upholding the highest standards of personal and academic integrity. 1 NYU’s “Policies and procedures for students studying away at a Global Academic Center” All NYUP students have the responsibility to uphold these stated objectives. As a member of this community, you accept the responsibility for upholding and maintaining these standards, which include refraining from all forms of plagiarism and cheating as detailed below. Cases of plagiarism at NYUParis will be brought to the attention of NYUParis academic administration as well as the implicated student’s home school Dean. PLAGIARISM: a form of fraud, presenting someone else’s work as though it were your own2 A sequence of words from another writer who you have not quoted and referenced in footnotes3 A paraphrased passage from another writer’s work that you have not cited. Facts or ideas gathered and reported by someone else4 Another student’s work that you claim as your own A paper that is purchased or “researched” for money A paper that is downloaded free of charge from the Internet CHEATING Copying from another student’s exam or quiz Giving or receiving unauthorized assistance (crib sheets, internet, etc.) during an exam or quiz Having someone take your exam Accessing an exam or quiz in an unauthorized fashion prior to its administration Collaborating with other students or unauthorized persons on a take home exam Using the same written material for two courses without the express permission of both instructors Fabricating or falsifying data Required Texts Assigned weekly readings (rf syllabus, below) are made available in three separate forms, as follows: • Class Reader (vols. 1 & 2)─Code R1 or R2)─to be purchased at Mistral Photo, 40 rue St Jacques, 5°. • Petra ten-Doesschate Chu, Nineteenth-Century European Art, 2011, 3rd edition─Code PtDC─ is available for consultation in NYUParis Library: Call Number: 759.05/CHU (3 copies). The assigned Chu readings are also available as individual master photocopies from which students may make their own personal copies. Consult NYUP librarians for assistance. • Electronic readings─Code PDF─will be emailed to students well in advance of assignment dates. NB Students are responsible for reading assigned weekly texts before each scheduled class and responding actively to related discussions in class and museums. Readings and personal notes should be brought to the appropriate class for consultation. Supplemental Texts(s As noted within the syllabus, supplementary or optional readings are listed at the appropriate dates. NYUParis Library) Internet Research Recognized academic internet sources (eg. on-line Oxford Dictionary of World Mythology, Saint James Guidelines Version of the Bible [Old and New Testaments]) are permitted for course assignments when correctly acknowledged in footnotes or parenthetical notes. More explicit guidelines will be distributed with quarter-term, midterm, and final paper assignments. If in doubt, kindly consult your professor before submitting personal work for grading. Additional Required Equipment Sketchbook/notebook, pen/pencil, camera and/or cell phone with camera capacity 2 NYU’s Expository Writing Department’s Statement on Plagiarism 3 NYU Statement on Plagiarism 4 NYU Statement on Plagiarism SYLLABUS
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