ART 362 - Seminar in Nineteenth-Century Art

Semester Offered: Fall
1 unit(s)

Topic for 2015/16a: Philosophical Landscape: Poussin/Turner/Cézanne. This seminar explores the philosophical ambitions of European landscape painting by focusing on the case studies of Poussin’s mythological vision of nature, Turner’s cataclysmic and historical conception of nature, and Cézanne’s dualistic (at once introspective and phenomenological) grasp of sensation and landscape. Changing ideas about the temporality, historicity, and sublimity of esthetic experience and the natural world are considered. Problems of painting style and technique are studied in close relation to the semiotic and symbolic connotations of landscape art. Mr. Lukacher.

Prerequisite: permission of the instructor.

One 2-hour period.