LATE 19TH CENTURY UNIT GUIDE: PHOTOGRAPHY, REALISM, SYMBOLISM AND MORE
Essential Question: Realism: why does Modernism begin?________________________
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FROM YOUR READING: jot down some notes on these topics
People
Nadar
Daguerreotype
Darwin
Marx
Baudelaire.. . The Painter of Modern Life
Flaubert
Eiffel
Technology
Photography
Steel
Art
Japanese prints
Social and Political
Colonialism
World’s Fairs
Growth of Middle Class
Philosophy
Positivism
German Research Methods & Higher Education
Worker as Hero
Rights of Women, Minorities, and Underclass
Edo Period
1. Katushika Hokuksai, The Great Wave, Woodblock print on paper, 9” x 14”, 1831. From the
series Thirty Six Views of Mount Fuji.
2. Ando Hiroshige, Fireworks by the Ryogokubashi Bridge, Woodblock print, 1838, from the series
One Hundred Views of Edo
Photography
1. Louis Daguerre
2. Matthew Brady (Civil War)
3. Eadweard Muybridge, Galloping Horse, 1878
French Realism
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Jean Francois Millet, The Gleaners, 1857.
Honore Daumier, The Third Class Carriage, 1862
Honore Daumier, Rue Transom, 1838, lithograph
Gustave Courbet, The Stone Breakers, 1849
Gustave Courbet, Burial at Ornans, 1849
Eduoard Manet, Le Dejeuner sur l’Herbe (luncheon on the grass), 1863.
Manet, Olympia, 1863.
Rosa Bonheur, Ploughing in the Ninvernais
American Realism
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Winslow Homer, The Lifeline
Thomas Eakins, The Gross Clinic, 1875
Henry O. Tanner, The Banjo Player
Frederick Las Olmstead and Calvert Vaux, Central Park, 1858-1880, NYC
English Realism
1. Dante Gabriel Rosetti (Pre-Raphaelites)
2. John Ruskin
3. Arts and Crafts Movement
Architecture
1. Sir John Paxton, Crystal Palace, London, iron and glass, 1850
2. John Augustus and Washington Augustus Roebling, Brooklyn Bridge, NY, 1867-83
3. Gustave Eiffel, Eiffel Tower, iron, Paris, 1887-89
Vocabulary
1. Lithography
2. Japonisme
3. Barbizon School