The Humanities Culture, Continuity and Change, Volume II: 1600 to the Present

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

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