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• English weekly magazine edited by Charles Dickens
• Published between 1850-1859
• Hard Times was published in Household Words |
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• Victorian periodical
• British weekly literary magazine founded and owned by Charles Dickens
• Published between 1859-1895 (Replaced Household Words)
• A Tale of Two Cities was published in All the Year Round |
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The ethical doctrine that virtue is based on utility, and that conduct should be directed toward promoting the greatest happiness of the greatest number of persons
• Work creates a good and moral person |
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| • References a woman who embodies the Victorian feminine ideal: a docile woman who is selflessly devoted to her children and submissive to her husband |
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• Women who had given into seduction and/or living a life in sin during the Victorian Period
• Opposite from “Angel of the house” |
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• A recurring musical theme, associated with a particular person, place, or idea
• Helps to bind the work together into a coherent whole |
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A term for the influence of the arts of Japan on those of the West
• 1850-1860
• Western culture exposed to Japanese culture
o Japan had previously had self imposed exclusion from the rest of the world
o Tea, porcelin, etc, found their way into western homes
o Collectors collected wood blocks |
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• Japanese wood-block prints
• Source of inspiration for many European impressionist painters |
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Tokyo
• Specific places of wood blocks
• Mass produced, mythodical, portabl |
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• Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849)
• Born into a samurai home
• Starts new form of landscape prints → focus on one place but shown from many different viewpoints
• Many used parts of objects fit into the frame of the picture, not symmetrical, eliminated details
ukiyo-e painter and printmaker of the Edo period.
In his time he was Japan 's leading expert on Chinese painting.[2]
Born in Edo (now Tokyo),
Hokusai is best-known as author of the woodblock print series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji, |
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| series of 46 large, color woodblock prints by the Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849), depicting Mount Fuji in differing seasons and weather conditions from a variety of different places and distances. |
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| • Ando Hiroshige (1786-1864) |
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• Paintings by Hiroshige
Hiroshige's One Hundred Famous Views of Edo, actually composed of 118
splendid woodblock landscape and genre scenes of
mid-nineteenth-century Tokyo |
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Kitagawa Utamaro (1753-1806)
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was a Japanese printmaker and painter, and is considered one of the greatest artists of woodblock prints (ukiyo-e). He is known especially for his masterfully composed studies of women, known as bijinga. He also produced nature studies, particularly illustrated books of insects.
His work reached Europe in the mid 19th century, where it was very popular, enjoying particular acclaim in France. He influenced the European Impressionists, particularly with his use of partial views, with an emphasis on light and shade.
“Comparing the Charms of Beautiful Women” (1784-1795) |
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| Comparing the Charms of Beautiful Women |
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| ''l'art pour l'art'', and expresses a philosophy that the intrinsic value of art, and the only "true" art, is divorced from any didactic, moral or utilitarian function. The concept is also known as Autotelism, from the Greek autoteles, “complete in itself.” |
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• Art should call forth “how beautiful” not “how true”
• Flamboyant- decadent approach
• Reject any lower or middle class virtues
• Art should not be in service to religion |
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• Sensory responses or emotions are blended because of the correspondences you see or hear
• Confusing them because they share something |
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| • Whistler won his case against Ruskin who “bashed” Whistlers “4 nocturnes” |
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• Reject many Renaissance deals
o Idealization of human form
• Highly personal and very fleeting- one moment
• Brushstrokes become more important
o Show the personality of the painter |
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• Placed impressionist works here because they were considered “scandalous”
Emperor Napoleon III ordered the works to be displayed here
Manet Cezanne and Pissaro showed work here |
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Break in the arts
• End of the 19th century- beginning of the 20th
• Search for a contemporary way to express
• Irrational; logical understanding of events
• Much more chaotic random investigation of personality- suspicious about “truth”
• Harlem renaissance
• Surrealism
• Free association of thoughts and images |
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• Poetry that’s associated with French writers
• Reacting against realists
• Far more suggestive
o Combine words; rhyme; musical qualities
o Sound creates relationship |
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• Free verse
• Form reflects content
the complete sentence replaces the stanza as a unit of meaning, and rhyme is optional. |
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• Builds up a pattern of meaning through sound
is the shaping of texts' meanings by other texts. It can refer to an author’s borrowing and transformation of a prior text or to a reader’s referencing of one text in reading another |
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| Works by Paul Cézanne, 1839-1906, French painter, b. Aix-en-Provence . Cézanne was the leading figure in the revolution toward abstraction in modern painting.. Amboise Vollard (Musée du Petit Palais, Paris). Cézanne developed a new type of spatial pattern. |
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• Picasso; Braque; Gris; Leger
• Analytical cubism
o Analyzed the form of objects by shattering them into fragments spread out on the canvas
o Without the distraction of bright colors
• Synthetic Cubism
o Called collage
o Incorporated stenciled letterings and paper scraps into their paintings |
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An orderly cause and effect
• Consequential way of understanding time and action
• Learned about this in relation to Hard Times |
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Everything is happening together
• All parts of story are happening at the same moment |
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• Color without reference to actual appearance
• African mass
• Intense bright colors
• Cubism |
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| Camera Work was a quarterly photographic publication by Alfred Stieglitz and the Photo-Secessionists from 1902 to 1917 that was known for its high-quality reproductions and its effort to establish photography as a fine art |
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• Takes on the tone of a character
• Merges objective narrators tone with the characters |
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• Displayed in places of high culture
• Political connotation
• What’s included? What’s excluded? |
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• Questions of gender; sexuality; race
• Asking the viewer to look at something you recognize and to see it in a different way
• Change or tweak it a little bit
• Showing there are gaps- no one whole truth
• Always political
• Representing the silenced or the unseen |
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• After WWii
• “Life itself is empty of any id of meaning”
• Everything has become really conventional- bleak
• Change/cut/paste old images
• Reproducing or shaping a new art form |
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| uses sculptural materials and other media to modify the way a particular space is experienced. Installation art is not necessarily confined to gallery spaces and can be any material intervention in everyday public or private spaces. |
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