Arts of Asia Lecture Series Fall 2016
From Monet to Ai Weiwei: How We Got Here
Sponsored by The Society for Asian Art
Wheredowecomefrom?Whatarewe?Wherearewegoing?
GauguinandearlyGlobalModernism
KarinGraceOen,PhD
KeyIdeas
Thingstokeepinmind
-isms
Impressionism
UniversalExpositions
Post-Impressionism
Photography
Symbolism
Artacademies
Fauvism
Artcriticism
Primitivism
Mass/PopularCulture
Cubism
AFewArtists
France
China
Nadar(1820-1910)
RenXiong(1823-1857)
EdouardManet(1832-1883)
PaulCezanne(1839-1910)
Japan
ClaudeMonet(1840-1926)
YokoyamaTaikan(1868-1958)
GustaveCaillebotte(1848-1894)
PaulGauguin(1848-1903)
India
HenriMatisse(1869-1954)
AbanindranathTagore(1871-1951)
Korea
KoHui-dong(1886-1965)
Suggestedreadings:
Friedman,SusanStanford,“WorldModernisms,WorldLiterature,andComparativity,”
inMarkWollaegerandWithMattEatough,eds.,TheOxfordhandbookofglobal
modernisms,OxfordUniversityPress,2012,pp.499-525.
Lyon,Janet.“CosmopolitanismandModernism,”inMarkWollaegerandWithMatt
Eatough,eds.,TheOxfordhandbookofglobalmodernisms,OxfordUniversityPress,
2012,pp.388-412.
Perry,Gill,"PrimitivismandtheModern,"inHarrison,Charles,FrancisFrascina,and
GillianPerry.Primitivism,Cubism,Abstraction:TheEarlyTwentiethCentury.New
Haven:YaleUniversityPress,inassociationwiththeOpenUniversity,1993,pp.3-24.
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Williams,Raymond,“WhenwasModernism?”inFrancisFrascinaandJonathanHarris,
eds.ArtinModernCulture:AnAnthologyofCriticalTexts.NewYork:IconEditions,
HarperCollins,1992,pp.23-27.
Additionalreadings:
Paris,Impressionism,andPost-Impressionism
Baudelaire,Charles,“ThePainterofModernLife”(1863),inBaudelaire,Charles,and
JonathanMayne.ThePainterofModernLife,AndOtherEssays.[London]:Phaidon,
1964.
Benjamin,Walter,“Paris,CapitaloftheNineteenthCentury”(1939),inBenjamin,
Walter,andRolfTiedemann.Thearcadesproject.Cambridge,Mass:BelknapPress,
1999.
Gauguin,Paul,andJohnMiller.NoaNoa:TheTahitiJournalofPaulGauguin.San
Francisco:ChronicleBooks,1994.
Laforgue,Jules.“Impressionism”(1883),inLindaNochlin,ed.ImpressionismandPostImpressionism1874-1904:SourcesandDocuments,EnglewoodCliffs,New
Jersey:Prentice-Hall,Inc.,1966,pp.14-20.
Leroy,Louis,"TheExhibitionoftheImpressionists"(1876),inHarrison,Charles,Paul
Wood,andJasonGaiger.ArtinTheory,1815-1900:AnAnthologyofChangingIdeas.
Oxford,UK:BlackwellPublishers,2001,pp.573-76.
EarlyAsianModernisms–afewcasestudies
Andrews,JuliaFrances,andKuiyiShen,“ChineseArtintheAgeofImperialism:The
OpiumWartotheTreatyofShimonoseki,”inTheArtofModernChina.Berkeley:
UniversityofCaliforniaPress,2012,pp.1-26,327-328(notes).
Guha-Thakurta,Tapati,“ArtistsandAesthetics:AbanindranathTagoreandthe‘New
SchoolofIndianPainting,”inTheMakingofaNew"Indian"Art:Artists,Aesthetics,and
NationalisminBengal,C.1850-1920.Cambridge[England]:CambridgeUniversityPress,
1992,pp.226-312.
Conant,EllenP.,“JapanesePaintingfromEdotoMeiji:RhetoricandReality,”inJ.
ThomasRimerandToshikoM.McCallum,eds.,SinceMeiji:PerspectivesontheJapanese
VisualArts,1868-2000.Honolulu:UniversityofHawaiʻiPress,2011,pp.34-65.
Kim,Youngna,“ColonialModernityContested,”inModernandContemporaryArtin
Korea,Elizabeth,NJ:Hollym,2010,pp.6-24.
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