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Covering artists from Edouard Manet to Vincent Van Gogh, and from Edgar Degas to Mary Cassatt, this course examines the work and social context of a constellation of artists whose practice in late-nineteenth-century Europe came to be known as Impressionist and Post-Impressionist. These artists representations of the city, the suburbs, leisure, labor, class and gender roles communicate a complex worldview in addition to a radical aesthetic. In developing general skills of analysis through the lectures, course readings, and museum visits, students should emerge from the course with a critical comprehension of the artists and their significant works, including the means to interpret the style, subject matter, and history of an emergent modernist art form. |