HAA 172g

Romanticism Revisited: Gericault
Ewa Lajer-Burcharth
Wednesday 12-2:45pm
Held in conjunction with an exhibition at the Harvard Art Museums, Mutiny: Works by Géricault, this seminar explores the social and political role of art in the Romantic period. Focused on the most influential Romantic artist, Théodore Géricault (1791–1824), the exhibition tells a new story of this socially and politically engaged artist across a range of media. Including approximately 40 drawings, watercolors, lithographs, and paintings from the Harvard Art Museums collections augmented by loans from three Boston-area collectors, the exhibition will offer students an opportunity to work closely with the objects and present on them in the exhibition space. Students will also be encouraged to address at least one object in the exhibition as part of their final paper. Examples of other works by Géricault in the collection, and works by his contemporaries, will also be examined during the course in the Harvard Art Museums Art Study Center. A visit to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and a class excursion to New York to see an exhibition about Géricault’s contemporary, Eugène Delacroix, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, are also planned. (Enrollment limited)