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AH 215 HISTORY OF IN AND ART IES Abroad Paris BIA

DESCRIPTION: This class retraces the major steps in the evolution of the city of Paris through art and architecture from the medieval period to today. Particular attention is paid to the 19th century from the Second Empire and the major urban planning programs conducted by the Baron Haussmann, which gave the capital its current form and style to Paris at 1900. We will then focus on he modern innovations of the XXth century and end with an overview of the project for the XXIst century. Students will study questions related to urban planning, the new Parisian lifestyle, as well as the modernity and modernization of the city but also questions of style, which will be put into context and paralleled with the major artistic movements of the times such as . In order to illustrate these changes and the architectural , beside major monuments and buildings, we will look at the works of famous painters such as Lebrun, Boucher, David, Ingres, Delacroix for the pre and post revolutionary era, and Edouard Manet who illustrated “Modern” Paris as with the monuments, the impressionists, post-impressionism and the XXth century avant- garde artistes. We will use historical novels, films and specific readings from Alistair Horne’s Seven Ages of Paris to complete our knowledge on the topic.

CREDITS: 3

CONTACT HOURS: 45 hours

LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION: English

PREREQUISITES: Recommended for students with no previous knowledge of

METHOD OF PRESENTATION: • Lecture • Field study

REQUIRED WORK AND FORM OF ASSESSMENT: • Midterm: 30% • Participation and homework (oral presentations): 20% • 2 or 3 mini quiz on readings: 20% • Final exam: 30%

Class attendance on study abroad is mandatory. You may NOT miss a class because of an extended weekend trip or other personal trips.

Work will be assessed on the basis of students’ visual observations, mastery of course material, and critical interventions

LEARNING OUTCOMES: By the end of the course students will be able to: • Identify topics of urban planning of the period and relate it to the current form of the city; • Analyze the urban development of Paris and relate this to the new Parisian lifestyle; • Recognize the evolutions during this period, specifically the modernity and modernization of the city; • Understand the context of architectural style with the major artistic movements of the times.

ATTENDANCE POLICY: Since IES courses are designed to take advantage of the unique contribution of the instructor and the lecture/discussion format is regarded as the primary mode of instruction, regular class attendance is mandatory. Each student may have no more than one absence in each course for whatever reasons. Your final grade in the course will be reduced by one fraction of a grade (i.e. A becomes A -) after that.

CONTENT:

Week Content Course-related Trips Assignments

1. Monday, General presentation Visit: musée du Meeting in class (with metro pass, January • Greek and Roman museum pass & student card and a 23rd I. INTRODUCTION: HISTORY Antiquity notepad for each class!) OF PARIS IN ART AND • Medieval Louvre and ARCHITECTURE painting Most readings are taken from Alistair Horne, Seven Ages of Paris, 1. From to Paris: an Pan Books, , 2002 (AH) overview: the city, the housing, style, the time period If from other sources, the readings will be available at IES

a. The beginning Pdf will be available on Moodle

b. The middle-ages: Specific readings will be assigned - The 1st city planner of Paris: daily. Philippe Auguste (1180-1223)

2. Monday, 2. The in Visit: Le Marais Meeting in class January 30th (16th century): the city, the housing, style, the time period Readings: Timelines 1 & 2 AH, “Age 1. Chapter 2 - François 1er AH, Age 2, Chapter 4 Henri the IVth - Henri the IV’s Royal City

Homework: Pavillon de l’Arsenal Pavillon de l’Arsenal Homework: Mandatory visit 21 Boulevard Morland, 75004 Based on you museum visit (oral before Monday, Paris, France (metro Sully Morland. presentation with PowerPoint, February 6th Line 7) photos taken on site and Open Tuesday-Saturday from bibliography) 10.30-18.30 Sunday 11.00-19.00 3 groups of 3 or 4 Closed on Monday For each group/period: - Present the time Presentations on the 3 following period/history periods: - Present the style of the - Paris under Louis XIV period in general - Paris under Louis XV - Show ex. of the style in art, - Paris under Louis XVI , architecture - Present Paris urbanism projects for the period Present your bibliography at the end of ppt if you use any other sources than the museum information (no Wikipedia, no insecula, etc.)

3. Monday, 3. THE DESIGNS OF LOUIS XIV, LOUIS XV, Visit: musée du Louvre Meeting in class February 6th LOUIS XVI

- period Film to watch: P. Leconte, Ridicule, - The Grand Siècle 1996 - Versailles - The Enlightenments Homework: Quiz done in Pavillon de l’Arsenal to be given + Styles: presentation/groups - Baroque based on Pavillon de l’Arsenal visit - Oral + ppt (see below). - Rocaille 15 min. / group - Neo-classicism Presentations on the 3 following periods: - Paris under Louis XIV - Paris under Louis XV - Paris under Louis XVI

Monday, Winter Break No Class February 13th

4. Monday, 4.PARIS A 19TH CENTURY CITY Visits: the Pantheon Meeting in class February 20th - Paris and Napoléon 1er Reading: on Moodle. Paris and - Jacques-Louis David Napoléon to page 8

Neoclassicism in architecture (Ledoux, Soufflot)

5. Monday, 5. HAUSSMANN AND THE SECOND Visits: Meeting in class February 27th EMPIRE The Louvre ( the 3rd’s - Paris before Haussmann apartments) Reading: AH, “Age 5”, Chapter 14th – - Haussmann and the Second The Opera house The Second Empire Empire: The city of lights The department stores Ppt Paris architecture 1789-1870 The Opera district: - Les Grands Magasins Recommended reading: Emile Zola, - The Opera house: the Palais Au Bonheur des dames (Ladies’ Garnier delight), 1883, Penguin 2001, - The Apartments of Napoléon III Introduction and Chap. 1 (Moodle)

Painting: Ingres & Delacroix

6. Monday, 8. Midterm exam Visits: Reading: PDF 6, La plaine Monceau March 6th + La Plaine Monceau ONE OF THE NEW DISTRICTS ADDED Musée Jacquemard André DURING SECOND EMPIRE: La plaine Monceau

7. Thursday, Mandatory visit to Orsay museum Meeting at the Orsay museum March 9th (metro stop Solférino line 12) French painting in the 19th century Right side entrance

8. Monday, 9. The bourgeois Haussmann Visit: Passages couverts Meeting in class March 13th apartment building and bourgeois lifestyle + The covered passages

Homework to be Homework: Present (group of 2 or done before 3) an unusual apartment buildings Monday, March ( or ) 20th - Show pictures of the building (taken by you!) with the address - Present and describe the building - Talk about the architect and his style and define art nouveau or art deco - With bibliography

9. Monday, 9. THE BELLE EPOQUE – Art nouveau Visits: Meeting in class March 20th (1890-1914) 1. L’art nouveau Petit and Homework: Present (group of 2 or 3) - Lavirotte an unusual apartment buildings (Art - Théâtre des Champs-Elysées (A. nouveau or Art deco) - architect Perret) - Show pictures of the building Trocadero (taken by you!) with the address 2. Art Déco - Present and describe the - 1937 International exhibition building - Le theâtre des Champs-Elysées - Talk about the architect and his () style and define art nouveau or - Le palais Iena (A. Perret) art deco - With bibliography

Readings: PDF on Paris 1900 Art Nouveau PDF on Art deco

10. Monday, 11. From Bohemian life Visits: Montmartre & Meeting at metro stop Vaugirard in March 27th to the Crazy years of front of escalator at 2.30 Montparnasse

On Reading: E. Hemingway, A Moveable Feast, 1964

Films to watch: JP Jeunet, Amelie (Le fabuleux destin d’Amelie Poulin, 2001

Woody Allen, Midnight in Paris, 2011

11. Monday, 10. THE XXTH CENTURY Visits: Forum des Halles Meeting Metro stop Plaisance at April 3rd Musée national d’art modern 2.30 - Paris under Pompidou • (1969-74) - The Mitterrand years (1981-1995) •

12. Monday, PARIS IN THE XXTH AND XXITH Visits: Meeting in class April 10th CENTURY La Bibliothèque Nationale Cour Saint Emilion Homework: using the links posted Introduction to Le Grand Paris (The Greater Paris), "a new global plan on Moodle for that day, present an for the Paris metropolitan region" aspect of the Grand Paris project. Groups of 3 or 4 person (ppt. 15 min each group)

Monday, April EASTER MONDAY- NO CLASS 17th

13. April 24th- 13. FINAL EXAM 27th

TBA

REQUIRED READINGS: • Burton, Richard. Blood in the City: Violence & Revelation in Paris, 1789-1945. New York: Cornell University Press, 2001. • Clark, T.J. The Absolute Bourgeois: Artists and Politics in France: 1848-1851 (2nd ed). Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1982. • The Painting of Modern Life: Paris in the Art of Manet and His Followers. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999. • Horne, Alistair. Seven Ages of Paris. London: Pan MacMillan, 2002. • Sutcliffe, Anthony. Paris: An Architectural History. London: Yale University Press, 1993.

RECOMMENDED READINGS: • T.J. Clark, The Absolute Bourgeois: Artists and Politics in France, 1848-1851, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2e éd., 1982 • T.J. Clarck, The Painting of Modern Life: Paris in the Art of Manet and His Followers, (Princeton University Press, 1984 ; édition révisée, 1999). • Richard Burton, Blood in the City, Violence & Revelation in Paris 1789-1945, Richard D.E. Burton, 2001, Cornell University