Creating the Modern: Intersections of Art and Society in the Nineteenth Century

Description

Nineteenth Century Art History is an extensive field of study that intersects with diverse humanities and social sciences areas. New research continues to expand our understanding of the era’s modernist ideation and cultural production. Creating the Modern aims to facilitate access to the research by providing an online platform readily available to learners interested in examining the relationships between art, society, and culture at the dawn of modernism. The ten chapters are Gustave Courbet and Revolutionary Realism; Édouard Manet and Modern Life; Female Labour and Prostitution in Paris; Berthe Morisot and Mary Cassatt and the Affluent Woman’s World; The Modern Portrait in Photography and Impressionist Painting; Claude Monet and the Impressionist Landscape; Paul Gauguin and the Colonial Myth of Primitivism; Madness and Modernity; Slavery, Anti-Black Racism, and American Artists; and Religious and Racial Antisemitism and Jewish Artists.