Syllabus

Art & Society in France

Spring Semester 2024

Unit One

• January 9: France & Paris, More France, Guide to France
  
  
• January 11: History, Geography, France-USA, Guardian-France, Black Lives Matter en France

Unit Two

• January 16: Neolithic Culture, Prehistoric Art, Lascaux

• January 18: The Celts, Greek Art & Architecture, Roman Gaul,

• January 23: Roman Art & Architecture, Roman Architecture in France

• January 25: France and Ancient Gaul, The Romanesque, Sacred Sites

France: An Illustrated History / 19-27 & 27-33


Unit Four

• January 30: The Middle Ages: Medieval Castles & A Medieval Town

• February 1: Medieval Art, Monasteries, & Manuscripts
  

• February 6: Monasticism, Gothic Cathedrals, Notre Dame de Paris [GP]

• February 8: French Renaissance, Castles, Furniture, & French Renaissance (ii)

• February 13: No Class - University Wellness Day

• February 15: The Renaissance, Fontainebleau, Books, & Painting [GP]
  
  

• February 20: Versailles & Louis XIV

• February 22: French Painters - 17th Century & Académie Française [GP]

France: An Illustrated History / 103-109 & 109-120


Unit Eight

• February 27: The Age of the Enlightenment & The French Revolution
  

• February 29: Art of the Enlightenment & the French Revolution  [GP]

• March 5: Nineteenth Century Painting, Musee d'Orsay

• March 7: Nineteenth Century Art & France in the Nineteenth Century [GP]

France: An Illustrated History / 137-142 & 142-152

Unit Ten 

• March 19: Pioneers of Photography, French Photography, Nicéphore Niépce
  
  

• March 21: The Invention of Photography & Cinema
  

France: An Illustrated History / 152-157 & 158-164

Unit Eleven 

• March 26: Art in the Twentieth Century

• March 28: History of Paris [GP]

France: An Illustrated History / 165-177 & 178-188

Unit Twelve 

• April 2: French Cuisine, Art of the Everyday, French Grafitti, Fashion

• April 4: French Art Today, France Today, French Gardens, Vertical Gardens
  
  

France: An Illustrated History / 188-198 & 198-205

Unit Thirteen

• April 9: Field Trip to the Hill Library Special Collections
  
  
• April 11: Field Trip to the Gregg Museum
  
  
• April 16: Project Presentations

• April 18: Project Presentations
  
  
• April 23: Project Presentations
  
  Black Paris, La Goutte d’Or, French-African Art, Harlem Renaissance