ARH 209 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: World'S Columbian Exposition, Daguerreotype, City Beautiful Movement
30 May 2019
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The city beautiful city (world"s columbian exposition, sullivan, burnham/root, Painting and the ways of seeing: the training of the artist in the nineteenth century; impact of daguerreotype, painting and the ways of seeing. 294 ("compositional and thematic polarity") - 295 ("the persistence ) 332 ("james abbott mcneill whistler") - 335 ("following study at ) 369 ("the female experience") - 370 ("the artifice of feminine. 373 ("in 1875") - 375 ("portrait of frank") Overview: the civil war was very disruptive, new forms of art. Threw into question the reality of what artist"s painted. Allowed photographers to capture the appearances of the world, which allowed painters to be "freed up" so they could do things besides portraits. End of 19th century: what is the nature of truth. This ended up with artists no longer feeling obligated to replicate the world around them. Rejection in the idea that paintings and sculptures should be straightforward stories. Becomes more about the art and the artist.
