AH 215 HISTORY of PARIS in ARCHITECTURE and ART IES Abroad Paris BIA
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AH 215 HISTORY OF PARIS IN ARCHITECTURE 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 Grand Paris 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 impressionism. In order to illustrate these changes and the architectural history of Paris, 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 art history 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 Louvre 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 Lutetia to Paris: an Pan Books, London, 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 Renaissance in Visit: Le Marais Meeting in class January 30th France (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 furniture, 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 - Baroque 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 - Classicism 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 (Napoleon 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 (Art nouveau or Art deco) 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 Grand Palais Homework: Present (group of 2 or 3) - Lavirotte an unusual apartment buildings (Art - Alexandre Bigot Théâtre des Champs-Elysées (A. nouveau or Art deco) - Hector Guimard architect Perret) - Show pictures of the building Trocadero (taken by you!) with the address 2. Art Déco Palais de Tokyo - Present and describe the - 1937 International exhibition building - Le theâtre des Champs-Elysées - Talk about the architect and his (Auguste Perret) 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 Montmartre Bohemian life Visits: Montmartre & Meeting at metro stop Vaugirard in March 27th to the Crazy years of Montparnasse front of escalator at 2.30 Montparnasse On modern art 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 • Centre Pompidou (1969-74) - The Mitterrand years (1981-1995) • Jean Nouvel 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 .