Neo-Classicism to Realism

(4 Credits)

The Enlightenment's valorization of cool rationalism contributed to the rise of neoclassicism as a dominant style, while the era's opposing celebration of emotion as the purest form of intellectual and spiritual expression (as in Rousseau) gave rise to romanticism. Following on the heels of romanticism, realism has been seen as both a rejection and an extension of it. Focuses on these three stylistic movements and examines how late 18th- and early 19th-century artists negotiated not just the aesthetic ideas of the Enlightenment but its political consequences as we