Here it is, too—DUE Dec 2:
Assign. #8_Semi-Weekly Writing Assignment_ Enlightenment/19th C. (Industrial)
Choose one object from and write a focused essay telling me why it is important within that culture. Please have a title that reflects your argument (i.e. why it is important to that culture). Please have a clear first sentence that states how you are going to argue that object is important. Please support this statement with evidence throughout your essay. I.e. shape your essay so that it includes things that support your argument.
Note please select one object only from following list and please think about your choice and what your main point would be before you write. I want a really focused essay with thesis. Think carefully about title. Think carefully about thesis. Write focused essay. Stay on topic.
a) David, Oath of the Horatii
b) Jacques-Louis David, The Death of Marat
c) Kauffmann, Cornelia Presenting Her Children as Her Treasures
d) Soufflot, The Panthéon, Paris
e) Delacroix, The Death of Sardanapalus
f) Géricault, Raft of the Medusa
g) Turner, Slave Ship
h) Turner, Rain, Steam, and Speed – The Great Western Railway
Introduction
Read:
A Beginner’s Guide to the Age of Enlightenment
https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/renaissance-reformation/rococo-neoclassicism/rococo/a/a-beginners-guide-to-the-age-of-enlightenment
Read:
Wright of Derby, A Philosopher Lecturing on the Orrery
https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/renaissance-reformation/britain-18c/britain-ageof-revolution/a/wright-of-derby-a-philosopher-lecturing-on-the-orrery
Rococo
Watch: (5:11)
Fragonard, The Meeting
https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/renaissance-reformation/rococo-neoclassicism/rococo/v/jean-honor-fragonard-the-progress-of-love-the-meeting-1771-1773
Neoclassicism
Read:
Neoclassicism, An Introduction
https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/renaissance-reformation/rococo-neoclassicism/neo-classicism/a/neoclassicism-an-introduction
Watch: (6:23)
David, Oath of the Horatii
https://youtu.be/qfAga9DAuU4
Read:
David, Oath of the Horatii
https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/renaissance-reformation/rococo-neoclassicism/neo-classicism/a/david-oath-of-the-horatii
Watch: (6:22)
Jacques-Louis David, The Death of Marat
https://youtu.be/Hw2_hv439Fg
Read:
David and The Death of Marat
https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/renaissance-reformation/rococo-neoclassicism/neo-classicism/a/david-and-the-death-of-marat
Read:
David, Napoleon Crossing the Alps
https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/renaissance-reformation/rococo-neoclassicism/neo-classicism/a/david-napoleon-crossing-the-alps
Read:
Kauffmann, Cornelia Presenting Her Children as Her Treasures
https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/renaissance-reformation/rococo-neoclassicism/neo-classicism/a/kauffmann-cornelia-presenting-her-children-as-her-treasures
Read:
Vignon, Church of La Madeleine
https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/renaissance-reformation/rococo-neoclassicism/neo-classicism/a/vignon-church-of-la-madeleine
Read:
Soufflot, The Panthéon, Paris
https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/renaissance-reformation/rococo-neoclassicism/neo-classicism/a/soufflot-the-panthon-paris
Nineteenth Century
Read:
Becoming Modern
https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/becoming-modern/introduction-becoming-modern/becoming-modern1/a/becoming-modern
Watch: (5:48)
Unlock Art: Where are the Women?
https://youtu.be/AbUkraQIYv8
Read: (optional; a problematic concept)
Orientalism
https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/becoming-modern/introduction-becoming-modern/issues-in-19th-century-art/a/orientalism
Read: (optional)
A Beginner’s Guide to Romanticism
https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/becoming-modern/romanticism/romanticism-intro/a/a-beginners-guide-to-romanticism
Read:
Goya, The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters
https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/becoming-modern/romanticism/romanticism-in-spain/a/goya-the-sleep-of-reason-produces-monsters
Read: (optional)
Goya, And There’s Nothing to be Done (from the Disasters of War)
https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/becoming-modern/romanticism/romanticism-in-spain/a/goya-disasters-of-war
Read: (optional)
Goya, Third of May, 1808
https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/becoming-modern/romanticism/romanticism-in-spain/a/goya-third-of-may-1808
Watch: (3:43)
Delacroix, The Death of Sardanapalus
https://youtu.be/iDBJK0y8vb0
Watch: (6:35)
Géricault, Raft of the Medusa
https://youtu.be/jlVBaqyGKMs
Read: (optional)
Henry Fuseli, The Nightmare
https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/becoming-modern/romanticism/romanticism-in-england/a/henry-fuseli-the-nightmare
Watch: (4:01) (Very Important)
Turner, Slave Ship
https://youtu.be/NoCW80MEGXY
Watch: (4:25) (Important)
Turner, Rain, Steam, and Speed – The Great Western Railway
https://youtu.be/pPsqUFuysbU
Watch: (4:05)
Friedrich, Monk by the Sea
https://youtu.be/XkcHktjqI1s
Read:
Friedrich, Monk By The Sea
https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/becoming-modern/romanticism/romanticism-in-germany/a/friedrich-monk-by-the-sea
Watch: (4:21) (optional?:))—really some interesting ideas
Friedrich, Abbey among Oak Trees
https://youtu.be/_DgeQ7rpIHI
Watch: (5:44)
Early Photography: Making Daguerreotypes
https://youtu.be/N0Ambe4FwQk
Read:
Haussmann the Demolisher and the Creation of Modern Paris
https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/becoming-modern/avant-garde-france/second-empire/a/haussmann-the-demolisher-and-the-creation-of-modern-paris
I will stop here—we will still have a bit of Nineteenth Century Next Week as well, maybe.