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UC Center Program
Fall 2004
PCC 122. French Visual Culture
Images of the Other Since the Eighteenth Century
| Monday 11:00-13:00 |
Prof. John Tain |
| Wednesday 11:30 - 13:30 |
Office Hours TBA |
This course examines representations of the “other” as both exotic and colonial objects in France from the Enlightenment to the end of French colonialism in the Near East and North Africa. Within the different practices of French visual culture (painting, architecture, photography, international exhibitions, and film), we will examine how French artists represented and appropriated North African and Ottoman cultures while forming new aesthetic sensibilities and introducing technical innovations. This course introduces students to the concepts and methods by which images and cultural encounters can be analyzed and understood. Priority will be given to the actual analysis of objects drawn from French visual culture and the socio-political contexts in which they were produced. In addition to considering the work of major French artists (Van Loo, Gros, Delacroix, Ingres, Gérôme, Renoir, and Matisse), we will also examine the work of Ottoman and North African artists, such as Osman Hamdy and Pascal Sébah. Includes onsite visits to museums and collections, and guest lectures. [Art History, History, Communications, French]. 6.0 credits
COURSE BOOKS
- Edward W. Said, Orientalism. London: Penguin Books, 1978 (reprinted with new preface, 2003).
COURSE WEBSITE
Images for the course can be accessed via this site, or directly at:
 http://socrates.berkeley.edu:7131/gallery/
Weekly postings will include images used in lecture, which will include those for which the students will be responsible during exams.
COURSE REQUIREMENTS
Students will be expected to be present for, and participate, in all classroom activities. In fulfillment of their presentation requirement, each student will be responsible for generating reading questions and leading discussion for one class meeting. In addition to midterm and final exams, students will also be responsible for three written assignments of increasing length.
Grade distribution will be as follows:
| Participation & Oral Presentation |
15 % |
| Assignments: |
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| First assignment (2 pages) due Wk 2. Monday September 20 |
5 % |
| Second assignment (4 pages) due Wk 5. Monday October 15 |
10 % |
| Mid-term examination |
20 % |
| Third assignment (7-10 pages) due Wk 11. Friday December 3 |
25 % |
| Final examination |
25 % |
COURSE SCHEDULE
Week 1. September 13.
INTRODUCTION: Exoticism and Orientalist debate
Monday: INTRODUCTION
Wednesday: Orientalism, Visual and Otherwise
- Edward W. Said, Orientalism (New York: Penguin Books, 2003), 1-28, 201-209.
- Roland Barthes, excerpt from “Myth Today,” in The Barthes Reader, ed. Susan Sontag (New York: Hill and Wang, 1982), 93-102. [To be distributed]
- Norman Bryson, excerpt from “Discourse, figure,” in Word and Image: French Painting of the Ancien Régime (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981), 1-17. [To be distributed]
Images for this week
Week 2. September 20. [ASSIGNMENT DUE MONDAY September 20]
EXOTICISM IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
Monday: Architectural Exoticism
Wednesday: Eighteenth Century Egyptomania [Trip to Parc Monceau]
- Michael Pantazzi, “Absolutism and Enlightenment,” Egyptomania: Egypt in Western Art, 1730-1930 (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 1994), 117-123. [CR]
- Bernd H. Dams and Andrew Zega, Pleasure Pavilions and Follies in the Gardens of the Ancien Regime (Paris: Flammarion, 1995), 105-171: browse; pay particular attention to pp. 105, 123-127, 135-138, 154-167 [CR]
Recommended:
- Roy Porter, The Enlightenment, 2nd ed. (New York: Palgrave, 2001), 1-10, 47-69. [CR]
- Roy Porter and G. S. Rousseau, ”Approaching Enlightenment Exoticism,” in Exoticism in the Enlightenment, eds. Roy Porter and G. S. Rousseau (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1990), 1-17. [CR]
Images for this week
Week 3. September 27.
ENLIGHTENMENT ORIENTALISM?
Monday: Meeting the Ottoman
- Montesquieu, Persian Letters (1721): Introduction, Letters 1-4, 11-15, 20-26, 30, 33, 53, 141. [web]
- Maurice Sérullaz, “Delacroix and the Orient,” Delacroix in Morocco, 30-35. [CR, cf. Wk 5]
- Perrin Stein “Amédée Van Loo's Costume turc: The French Sultana,” in Art Bulletin 78 no.3 (Sept. 1996): 417-438. [WEB]
Wednesday: The Gender of the Orient
- Said, Orientalism, 113-123.
- Dorinda Outram, “Enlightenment Thinking about Gender,” The Enlightenment (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995), 80-95. [CR]
- Perrin Stein, “Madame de Pompadour and the Harem Imagery at Bellevue,” Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 123 no.6 (1994): 30-44. [CR]
- Susan Rodin Pucci, “The Discrete Charm of the Exotic: Fictions of the Harem in Eighteenth-Century France,” in Exoticism in the Enlightenment, 145-174. [CR]
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Week 4. October 4.
FRENCH IMPERIALISM AND EGYPTIAN FANTASIES
Monday: Egypt
GUEST LECTURE
- Said, Orientalism, 79-92.
- Frederick Quinn, The French Overseas Empire (Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2000), 159-163. [CR]
- Todd Porterfield, “Paintings of the Egyptian Campaign,” The Allure of Empire: Art in the Service of French Imperialism, 1798-1836 (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1998), 43-80. [CR]
Wednesday: Case Study: Gros [Visit to the LOUVRE]
- Maurice Sérullaz, “Delacroix and the Orient,” Delacroix in Morocco, 35-39. [CR, cf wk 5]
- Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby, “Rumor, Contagion, and Colonization in Gros’s Plague-Stricken of Jaffa (1804),” Representations 51 (Summer 1995): 1-46. [CR]
Images for this week
Week 5. October 11. [ASSIGNMENT DUE: Friday October 15]
ROMANTICISM AND ORIENTALISM: Delacroix in Morocco
Monday: Delacroix I
GUEST LECTURE
- Maurice Sérullaz, “Delacroix and the Orient,” Delacroix in Morocco, Exhibition catalogue (Paris: Institut du monde arabe; Flammarion, 1994), 36-53. [CR]
- Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby, “ ‘Whose colour was no black nor white nor grey, But an extraneous mixture, which no pen Can trace, although perhaps the pencil may’: Aspasie and Delacroix’s Massacres of Chios,” Art History 22 no.5 (December 1999): 676-703. [web]
Wednesday: Delacroix, II [VISIT TO LOUVRE]
- Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby, “Orients and Colonies: Delacroix’s Algerian Harem,” in The Cambridge Companion to Delacroix, ed. Beth S. Wright (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001), 69-87. [CR]
- Roger Benjamin, “The Orientalist Mirage,” Orientalism: From Delacroix to Klee, curator and ed. Roger Benjamin (Sydney: Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1997), 6-29. [To be distributed]
Recommended:
- Lee Johnson, “The Influence of the Journey on Delacroix’s Art,” Delacroix in Morocco, 114-125.
Images for this week
Week 6. October 18.
OTHER ORIENTALISMS: Ingres in Rome & Gérôme in Constantinople
Monday: Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
- Said, Orientalism, 184-190.
- Walter B. Denny, “Quotations in and out of Context: Ottoman Turkish Art and European Orientalist Painting,” Muqarnas 10 (1995): 380-391. [CR]
- Marilyn Brown, “The Harem Dehistoricized: Ingres's Turkish Bath,” Arts Magazine 61 no. 10 (June/Summer 1987): 58-68. [CR]
- John Berger, excerpt from Ways of Seeing, in The Feminist and Visual Culture Reader, ed. Amelia Jones (London: Routledge, 2003), 37-39.
- Carol Ockman, Ingres’s Eroticized Bodies: Retracing the Serpentine Line (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995). [Excerpts to be distributed]
Wednesday: Jean-Léon Gérôme
- Gerald M. Ackerman, Jean-Léon Gérôme: His Life, His Work (Paris: ACR Edition, 1997). [Browse reserve copy]
- Albert Boime, “Gérôme and the Bourgeois Artist’s Burden,” Arts Magazine 57 no. 5 (Jan 1983): 64-73. [To be distributed]
- Linda Nochlin, “The Imaginary Orient,” in Race-ing Art History: Critical Readings in Race and Art History, ed. Kymberly N. Pinder (New York & London: Routledge, 2002), 69-85. [CR]
- Gerald M. Ackerman, “Gérôme’s Oriental Paintings,” Arts Magazine 60 no.7 (March 1986): 75-80. [To be distributed]
Recommended:
- Thomas Crow, excerpts from “Patriotism and Virtue" and “Classicism in Crisis,” in Nineteenth-Century Art, ed. Stephen F. Eisenman (London: Thames and Hudson, 1994), 47-77. [CR]
Images f or this week
Week 7. October 25.
THE EMPIRE SPEAKS BACK?
Monday: Osman Hamdi Bey & Khalil Bey
- Zeynep Çelik, “Speaking Back to Orientalist Discourse,” in Orientalism's Interlocutors: Painting, Architecture, Photography, eds. Jill Beaulieu and Mary Roberts (Durham, North Carolina: Duke, 2002), 19-41. [CR]
- F. Haskell, “A Turk and His Pictures in Nineteenth-Century Paris,” Oxford Art Journal 5 no. 1 (1982), 40-47.
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Wednesday: MIDTERM EXAM
MIDTERM BREAK: No Classes (OCT 30 - NOV 7)
Week 8. November 8.
ORIENTALISM, REALISM, IMPRESSIONISM: Duranty, Fromentin, Renoir
Monday: Duranty and Fromentin
- Louis Emile Edmond Duranty, “The New Painting: Concerning the Group of Artists Exhibiting at the Durand-Ruel Galleries” (1876), in The New Painting: Impressionism 1874-1886, dir. & coordinator Charles S. Moffett (San Francisco: The Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, 1986), 36-47. [CR]
- Eugène Fromentin, “A Critic's Program,” & “A Letter to a Young Artist,” in Realism and Tradition in Art 1848-1900, ed. Linda Nochlin (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1966), 19-25. [CR]
- Roger Benjamin, “Orient or France? Nineteenth-Century Debates” in Orientalist Aesthetics: Art, Colonialism, and French North Africa (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003), 11-32. [CR]
Wednesday: Renoir and Orientalism [VISIT TO MUSEE D'ORSAY]
- Roger Benjamin, “Renoir and Impressionist Orientalism,” in Orientalist Aesthetics: Art, Colonialism, and French North Africa, 33-55. [To be distributed]
Recommended:
- Roger Benjamin, “A Society for Orientalists,” in Orientalist Aesthetics: Art, Colonialism, and French North Africa, 57-77.
Images for this week
Week 9. November 15.
AVANT-GARDE ORIENTALISM: Matisse in North Africa
Monday: Matisse & North Africa.
- Pierre Schneider, excerpt from “The Moroccan Hinge,” Matisse in Marocco (Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1990), 16-56. [To be distributed]
- Roger Benjamin, “Matisse and Modernist Orientalism,” Orientalist Aesthetics, 159-190. [CR]
Wednesday: Matisse’s Orient: GUEST LECTURE: Deepak ANANTH.
- Deepak Ananth, “Frames within Frames: on Matisse and the Orient,” in Rhetoric of the Frame : Essays on the Boundaries of the Artwork, ed. Paul Duro (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996), 153-177. [CR]
- Marilyn Lincoln Board, “Constructing the Myths and Ideologies in Matisse's Odalisques,” Genders 5 (July 1989): 21-49. [CR]
Recommended:
- James Clifford, “Histories of the Tribal and the Modern,” in Race-ing Art History, 217-231. [CR]
Images for this week
Week 10. November 22.
THE ORIENT IN PARIS: Expositions 1900 - 1931
Monday: Expositions I
- Said, Orientalism, 201-225.
- Zeynep Çelik, Displaying the Orient: Architectures of Islam at Nineteenth-Century World's Fairs (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), 88-93, 125-136. [web]
- Lynn E. Palermo, “Identity Under Construction: Representing the Colonies at the Paris Exposition Universelle of 1889,” in The Color of Liberty: Histories of Race in France (Durham: Duke University Press, 2003), 285-297.
- Frederick Quinn, “The Famous Colonial Exposition of 1931,” The French Overseas Empire, 204-207. [CR]
- Timothy Mitchell, “Orientalism and the Exhibitionary Order,” in The Visual Culture Reader, ed. Nicholas Mirzoeff (London & New York: Routledge, 2002), 495-505. [CR]
Wednesday: GUEST LECTURE: Elisabeth LEBOVICI.
Recommended:
- Helen Furlough, “Une leçon des choses: Tourism, Empire, and the Nation in Interwar France,” French Historical Studies 25 no. 3 (Summer 2002): 441-473. [CR]
Images for this week
Week 11. November 29. [ASSIGNMENT DUE FRIDAY DECEMBER 3]
ORIENTALISM AND PHOTOGRAPHY.
Monday: Photography: Places, Things
- Rosalind Krauss, “Photography’s Discursive Spaces: Landscape/View,” Art Journal 42 no. 4 (Winter 1982): 311-319. [WEB—GET LINK]
- Abigail Solomon-Godeau, “A Photographer in Jerusalem, 1855: August Salzmann and His Times,” October 18 (Fall 1981): 90-107. [CR]
- Julia Ballerini, “Orientalist Photography and Its ‘Mistaken’ Pictures,” Picturing the Middle East (New York: Dahesh Museum, 1996): 15-26. [To be distributed]
Wednesday: Photography: People
- Michelle L. Woodward, “Between Orientalist Clichés and Images of Modernization: Photographic Practice in the Late Ottoman Era,” History of Photography 27no.4 (Winter 2003): 363-374. [To be distributed]
- Malek Alloula, excerpt from The Colonial Harem, in The Visual Culture Reader, 2 nd ed. Ed. Nicholas Mirzoeff (London: Routledge, 2002): 519-524. [To be distributed]
- Julia Ballerini, “The Invisibility of Hadj-Ishmael: Maxime du Camp's 1850 Photographs of Egypt,” in The Body Imaged, eds. Kathleen Adler and Marcia Pointon (Cambridge University Press, 1993), 147-160. [CR]
Recommended:
- Sara Stevenson, “The Photographer's Vision,” in Visions of the Ottoman Empire (Edinburgh: Scottish National Portrait Gallery, 1994), 73-80. [CR]
- Mounira Khemir, “The Orient in the Photographers' Mirror: From Constantinople to Mecca,” in Orientalism: Delacroix to Klee, 189-195. [CR]
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Week 12. December 6.
ORIENTALISM IN FILM: Julien Duvivier's Pépé le Moko (1936).
Monday: Film Screening
- Frederick Quinn, “Film: From Les Fils du Soleil to Indochine,” The French Overseas Empire, 202-204. [CR]
- Martin O'Shaughnessy, “Pépé le Moko or the Impossibility of Being French in the 1930s,” French Cultural Studies 7 no. 21 (October 1996): 247-58. [CR]
- Charles O'Brien, “The ‘Cinéma Colonial’ of 1930s France: Film Narration as Spatial Practice,” in Visions of the East: Orientalism in Film, eds. Matthew Bernstein and Gaylyn Studlar (New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers UP, 1997), 207-31. [CR]
Wednesday: Discussion/ Conclusion
Recommended:
- Henry A. Garrity, “Narrative Space in Julien Duvivier's Pépé-le-Moko,” French Review 65 no. 4 (March 1992): 623-28.
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Week 13. December 13: Review Session and Final Examination
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