Lecture8/SeminarH
Week 9: Lecture 8: Art
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Analyse one history painting of your choice?
- How did history painters visualize the nation?
- What are the functions of history painting?
- Why do monuments matter?
Essential Reading
Burke, Peter, Eyewitnessing: The Uses of Images as Historical Evidence (London, 2014), pp. 41-55 [Chapter: Iconography and Iconology]. E-Book
Dabrowski, Commemorations and the Shaping of Modern Poland, pp. 133-156 [= Chapter 5: ‘Bronzing the Bard: The Mickiewicz Monuments of 1898’].
Batorska, Danuta, 'The Political Censorship of Jan Matejko', Art Journal 51 (1992), pp. 56-63
Recommended Viewing
On History Painting - http://www.visual-arts-cork.com/genres/history-painting.htm
Olga’s Gallery – Online Art Museum: http://www.abcgallery.com
Polish Paintings - http://www.pinakoteka.zascianek.pl
Jan Matejko - https://www.jan-matejko.org/
Sternin, Grigori, and Jelena Kirillina, Ilya Repin (Parkstone International, 2011) E-Book
Further Reading
Facos, Michelle and Sharon L. Hirsh (eds), Art, Culture, and National Identity in Fin-de-Siècle Europe (Cambridge, New York, 2003)
Prendergast, Christopher, Napoleon and History Painting: Antoine-Jean Gros’s La bataille d’Eglau (Oxford, 1997), pp. 49-77.