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Book 4: Excess, Inquiry, and Restraint: 1600 to 1800 21 The Baroque in Italy: The Church and Its Appeal The Drama of Painting: Caravaggio and the Caravaggisti Venice and Baroque Music Focus: Andrea Pozzo’s Apotheosis of Saint Ignatius C & C: The End of Italian Ascendency 22 The Secular Baroque in the North: The Art of Observation Calvinist Amsterdam: City of Conradictions The Science of Observation Dutch Vernacular Painting: The Art of the Familiar The Baroque Keyboard Focus: Rembrandt’s The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp C & C: Tension between Populace and Court [to be retitled “The Art of the People and the Tastes of the Court”]   23 The Baroque Court: Absolute Power and Royal Patronage Versailles and the Rise of Absolutism The Arts of the French Court The Art and Politics of the English Court The Arts of the Spanish Court The Baroque in the Americas Focus: Velázquez’s Las Meninas C & C: Excess and Restraint 24 The Rise of the Enlightenment in England: The Claims of Reason The New London: Toward the Enlightenment The English Enlightenment Literacy and the New Print Culture Exploration in the Englightenment Focus: Wren’s St. Paul’s Cathedral C & C: The Growing Crisis of the Slave Trade 25 The Rococo and the Enlightenment on the Continent: Privilege and Reason The Rococo The Philosophes Rococo and Classical Music China and Europe: Cross-Cultural Contact Focus: Watteau’s Signboard of Gersaint C & C: The End of the Rococo 26 The Rights of Man: Revolution and the Neoclassical Style The American and French Revolutions The Rights of Woman The Neoclassical Spirit Napoleon and Neoclassical Paris The Issue of Slavery Focus: David’s The Lictors Returning to Brutus the Bodies of His Sons C & C: The Romantics and Napoleon Book 5: Romanticism, Realism, and Empire: 1800 to 1900 27 The Romantic World View: The Self in Nature and the Nature of Self  The Early Romantic Imagination The Romantic Landscape Transcendentalism and the American Romantics Romanticism’s Darker Realities The Romantic Hero Goya’s Tragic Vision Herman Melville: The Unceratin World of Moby Dick Beethoven and the Rise of Romantic Music Focus: The Sublime, the Beautiful, and the Picturesque C & C: From Romanticism to Realism 28 Industry and the Working Class: A New Realism The Industrial City: Conditions in London Reformists Respond: Utopian Socialism, Medievalism, and Christian Reform Literary Realism (including slave narratives) French Painting: The Dialogue between Idealism and Realism Photography: Realism’s Pencil of Light [including early photos of Egypt by Maxime du Camp] Charles Darwin: The Science of Objective Observation Focus: Orientalism and Ingres’s Turkish Bath C & C: Documenting War 29 Global Confrontation and Civil War: Challenges to Cultural Identity The Revolutions of 1848: From the Streets of Paris to Vienna and Beyond The Haussmannization of Paris The Rise of Nationalism The American Civil War The British in China an India The Rise and Fall of Egypt The Opening of Japan Focus: Winslow Homer’s A Visit from the Old Mistress C & C: Painting Modern Life   30  In Pursuit of Modernity: Paris in the 1850s and 1860s George Sand: Politics and the Female Voice Charles Baudelaire and the Poetry of Modern Life Édouard Manet: The Painter of Modern Life Émile Zola and the Naturalist Novel Nationalism and the Politics of Opera Focus: Manet’s Olympia C & C: Impressionist Paris 31 The Promise of Renewal: Hope and Possibility in Late Nineteenth-Century Europe French Impressionism Russian Realism and the Quest for the Russian Soul Britain and the Design of Social Reform Focus: Renoir’s The Luncheon of the Boating Party C & C: The Prospect of America 32  The Course of Empire: Expansion and Conflict in America The Native American in Myth and Reality Walt Whitman’s America The American Woman Ragtime and the Beginnings of Jazz The American Abroad Chicago and the Columbian Exposition of 1893 Focus: Eakin’s Gross Clinic and Agnew Clinic C & C: The “Frontier Thesis” of Frederick Jackson Turner 33 The Fin de Siècle: Toward the Modern The Fin de Siècle: From Naturalism to Symbolism Post-Impressionist Painting Toward the Modern Africa and Empire [including Conrad’s Heart of Darkness] Focus: Cézanne’s Still Life with Plaster Cast C & C: Freud and the Unconscious   Book 6:  Modernism and the Globalization of Cultures: 1900 to the Present 34 The Era of Invention: Paris and the Modern World Pablo Picasso’s Paris: At the Heart of the Modern The Expressionist Movement: Modernism in Germany and Austria Early Twentieth Century Literature The Origins of Cinema Focus: Picasso’s collages C & C: The Prospect of War 35 The Great War and Its Impact:  A Lost Generation and a New Imagination Trench Warfare and the Literary Imagination Escape from Despair: Dada in the Capitals Russia: Art and Revolution Freud, Jung, and the Art of the Unconscious Focus: Eisenstein’s The Battleship Potemkin, “Odessa Steps Sequence” C & C: Harlem and the Great Migration 36  New York, Skyscraper Culture, and the Jazz Age: Making It New The Harlem Renaissance Skyscraper and Machine: Architecture in New York [including intro to The International Style] Making It New: The Art of Place The Golden Age of Silent Film: Hollywood in the 1920s Focus: William Carlos Williams’s “The Great Figure” and Charles Demuth’s The Figure 5 in Gold C & C: The Rise of Fascism 37 The Age of Anxiety: Fascism and Depression, Holocaust and the Bomb The Glitter and Angst of Berline The Rise of Fascism Revolution in Mexico The Great Depression in America Cinema: Talkies and Color World War II Focus: Picasso’s Guernica C & C: The Bauhaus in America   38 After the War: Existential Doubt, Artistic Triumph, and the Culture of Consumption Europe after the War: The Existential Quest America after the War: Triumph and Doubt The Beat Generation Pop Art Minimalism in Art Focus: Hamilton’s Just What Is It That Makes Today’s Homes So Different, So Appealing? C & C: The Civil Rights Movement 39 Multiplicity and Diversity: Cultures of Liberation and Identity in the 1960s and 1970s Black Identity The Vietnam War: Rebellion and the Arts High and Low: The Example of Music The Birth of the Feminist Era Questions of Male Identity Focus: James Rosenquist, F-111, 1965 C & C: The Global Village 40 Without Boundaries: Multiple Meanings in a Postmodern World Postmodern Architecture: Complexity, Contradiction, and Globalization Pluralism and Postmodern Theory Pluralism and Diversity in the Arts A Plurality of Styles in Painting Multiplicity in Postmodern Literature A Diversity of Cultures: The Cross-Fertilization of the Present A Multiplicity of Media: New Technologies Focus: Basquiat’s Charles the First C & C: The Environment and the Humanist Tradition