The Production of Nature

4 credits

Considers nineteenth-century European painting and printmaking in relation to the construction of nature and the historically specific ways of seeing that emerge from it. Key artists, groups of artists, include John Constable, J.M.W. Turner, Caspar David Friedrich, Camille Corot, the Barbizon School, J.-J. Grandville, the Pre-Raphaelites, and the Impressionists. Prerequisites: upper-division standing.