"Voyages of the Self": Parallels in American Painting and Literature 4219-AW212
Syllabus:
1. Introduction
2. John Singleton Copley and Jonathan Edwards
3. Washington Allston as writer and painter
4. John Quidor and Washington Irving
5. Thomas Cole and William Cullen Bryant
6. Fitz Hugh Lane and Ralph Waldo Emerson
7. Fitz Hugh Lane, Native American art and Henry David Thoreau
8. Frederic Edwin Church and Walt Whitman
9. Winslow Homer and William James
10. Thomas Eakins and Stephen Crane
11. Albert Pinkham Ryder and Emily Dickinson
12. Edward Hopper and Charles Reznikoff
13. Larry Rivers and Frank O'Hara
14. Jackson Pollock and Charles Olson
15. Final test
Type of course
elective monographs
Mode
Prerequisites (description)
Assessment criteria
Final test
Bibliography
David Blelejac, "Millenial Desire and the Apocalyptic Vision of Washington Allston." Washington, D.C.-London: Smithsonian Institution P, 1988.
Sarah Burns, "Painting on the Dark Side. Art and the Gothic Imagination in Nineteenth-Century America." Berkeley-Los Angeles-London: U of California P, 2004.
Michael Fried, "Realism, Writing, Disfiguration. On Thomas Eakins and Stephen Crane." Chicago: U of Chicago Press, 1987.
David Lehman, "The Last Avant-Garde. The Making of the New York School of Poets." NY: Anchor,1998.
David C. Miller, ed. "American Iconology. New Approaches to Nineteeth-Century Art and Literature." New Haven-London: Yale UP, 1993.
Barbara Novak, "American Painting of the Nineteenth Century. Idealism, Realism, and the American Experience." Oxford-NY: Oxford UP, 1980.
Barbara Novak, "Nature and Cuture. American Landscape and Painting 1825-1875." Oxford-NY: Oxford UP, 1980.
Barbara Novak,"Voyages of the Self. Pairs, Parallels, and Patterns in American Art and Literature." Oxford-NY: Oxford UP, 2007.
Marjorie Perloff, "Frank O'Hara: Poet Among Painters." Chicago: U of Chicago Press, 1977.
Bryan Jay Wolf, "Romantic Re-Vision. Culture and Consciousness in Nineteenth-Century American Painting and Literature." Chicago: U of Chicago Press, 1982.
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