Below is the course calendar with the readings that out students tackled with great insight this week. The thought-provoking questions, extensive dialogue, and visual examples and diagrams within their journals created a rich environment that will be further informed and expanded upon as we explore Paris. I know that each one of you is beginning to see the connections between the ideas, objects, language, history, and culture, which we have challenged you to investigate. These will be our foundation as we further examine Revolution, Democracy and the Avant Garde in Paris. Remember the words of Le Corbusier, in After Cubism Art is Above All a Matter of Conception.
As I'm taking the liberty of speaking for Eric,
Nous te souhaitons un bon voyage et nous vous voyiez à Paris.
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PARIS TRIP 2011 "Revolution, Democracy and the Avant-Garde in Paris"
Course Calendar (subject to change)
May 16, 2011: Art History / Cultural Studies Preparation 9-12 and 1-4
May 17, 2011: Art History / Cultural Studies / Studio Preparation 9-12 and 1-4
May 18, 2011: Studio Preparation 9-4
May 19, 2011: Final meeting 9-11
May 24, 2011: Students Leave USA
May 25, 2011: ARRIVAL at St. Christopher’s Inn, 19th arrondissement, Paris, France
Meet with Jenny Krantz
May 26, 2011: Day 1 Thursday MEDIEVAL PARIS: A City Orientation / History of Paris
Meet at 1:00 at the Hostel (Metro to Trocadero)
Visit: Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine (3:30 - 6 pm)
Dinner: 7pm Restaurant Chartier (Metro Grand Boulevards)
Seine by boat following dinner
READING: The Seven Ages of Paris, Introduction "From Caesar to Abelard";
Viollet-le-Duc and the West Portals of Notre Dame ; excerpts from Victor Hugo, Notre Dame de Paris "Book First: I. The Grand Hall", "Book Third: II. A Bird's Eye View of Paris", "Book Fifth: II. This Will Kill That"
May 27, 2011: Day 2 Friday THE CHURCH AND RADICAL ENLIGHTENMENT: Re-birth of Philosophy
Meet at 8:30 at the Hostel
10:00 Promptly: Bibliothèque Nationale Rue Richelieu, (19th century photographs -- private showing with the Director of Photographie)
Metro to Pont Neuf and the Ill de la Cite: View Ste. Chapelle / Notre Dame
Lunch Break on your own:
Walk Ile St. Louis: View Hotel Lauzen:
Walk to S. Germain Des Pres; End at Café de Flore/ Café Deux Magots
READING: The Seven Ages of Paris, "Age Two 1314-1643: Henri IV";
Excerpts from A Wicked Company: The Forgotten Radicalism of the European Enlightenment "Chapter 1. City of Lights", "Chapter 9. A Natural Philosophy", "Epilogue: A Stolen Revolution"; "Unholy Relics" pp.75-127 in Descartes Bones by Russell Shorto.
May 28, 2011: Day 3 Saturday ENTRENCHED ARISTOCRACY: The Retreat to Versailles
Meet at 7:00 at the Hostel (Metro S. Michel to RER C5 to Versailles – Rive Gauche)
Versailles All Day Trip 7:30 am – 8:00 pm; Palace: begin inside 9-11
Gardens: move to the gardens 11:00 am to see fountains
Fountains /Grande Eaux Musicaux
Explorations of: Petit Trianon, Grande Trianon, and L’Hameau
Return to Paris (RER C5 Versailles-Rive Gauche 7pm)
READING: The Seven Ages of Paris, "Age Three 1643-1795: Louis XIV"; excerpt from Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution [and to the Palace of Versailles], Introduction and Chapter 6: " The Simple Life".
Also, “Versailles – A Political Themepark,” I.Borden, Architecture and the Sites of History
May 29, 2011: Day 4 Sunday REVOLUTION: Liberty, Equality, Fraternity...and the Art Museum
Meet at 8:30 at the Hostel (Metro to Palais Royale- Musee de Louvre)
Louvre (9:00 – 11:30)
Lunch Break at Carrosel du Louvre – Food Court for group discussion
Louvre (1:00 – 3:00)
L’Opera (3:30 – 5:00) (Metro from Palais Royale-Musee de Louvre to Opera)
READING: The Seven Ages of Paris, "Age Four 1795-1815: Napoleon"; "The Misplaced Head" pp.129-165 in Descartes Bones by Russell Shorto; "The Revolutionary Louvre" chapter 3 of Inventing the Louvre by Andrew McClellan; David Pinkney, “Money and Politics in the Rebuilding of Paris”, and "Napoleon III’s Transformation of Paris”
May 30, 2011: Day 5: Monday SCIENCE, THE COMMUNE AND AN ARCHITECTURE OF IRON
Meet at 8:30 at the Hostel (Metro to Cluny-La Sorbonne)
Latin Quarter walk 9:00 – 11:00
Bibliothèque Ste. Geneviève (exterior)
Pantheon / Foucault’s Pendulum
Lunch break on your own: Jardin du Luxemburg (Metro Luxembourg)
L’Orangerie in the Afternoon
Arc De Triomphe or La Madeleine
READING: The Seven Ages of Paris, "Age Five 1815-1871: The Commune"; Viollet-Le-Duc, "Architecture in the Nineteenth Century: Importance of Method" #20 pp. 215-220 in Architecture and Design in Europe and America, 1750-2000 A. Harrison-Moore and D. Rowe Eds.; Walter Benjamin, "Paris-Capital of the Nineteenth Century"; Neil Levine, "The Book and the Building: Hugo's Theory of Architecture and Labrouste's Bibliothèque Ste-Geneviève" in The Beaux-Arts in 19th Century French Architecture, edited by Robin Middleton (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1982).
May 31, 2011: Day 6: Tuesday THE BIRTH OF MODERNISM: Realism vs Impressionism
Meet at 9:00 at the Hostel (Metro to Varenne)
Rodin Museum (10-12:00 pm)
Eiffel Tower and Lunch arrive at 12:30/45 – 3:00)
Musee D’Orsay 3:00 – 6:00
READING: The Seven Ages of Paris, "Age Six 1871-1940: The Treaty of Versailles"; Courbet, "Realist Manifesto" ; for Rodin, see "The Originality of the Avant-Garde" by Rosalind Krauss pp.151-172; for Manet, see "Chapter Two: Olympia's Choice" pp.79-146 in The Painting of Modern Life: Paris in the Art of Manet and his Followers by T.J.Clark
June 1, 2011: Day 7: Wednesday RESEARCH DAY (on your own projects)
June 2, 2011: Day 8: Thursday ART NOUVEAU, PRIMITIVISM AND A MACHINE FOR LIVING
Meet at 9:00 at the Hostel
Art Nouveau Metros by Hector Guimard 9:30 – 11:00
Musée Quay Branley 11:00 – 2:30
3:30 Private Tour of Maison de Verre (recently restored)
Dinner on your own or as casual groups
Musee d'Orsay 7:00-9:00pm
READING: "L'Art Nouveau" by S.Bing in The Craftsman (translation); “An Architect’s Opinion of ‘L'Art Nouveau’" by Hector Guimard in Archtiectural Record; "The White Peril and L'Art negre: Picasso, Primitivism and Anticolonialism" by Patricia Leighton; “Maison de Verre” by Kenneth Frampton in Perspecta
June 3, 2011: Day 9: Friday FROM CUBISM TO PURISM: The Philosophies of Abstraction
Meet at 8:00 at the Hostel
Tristan Tzara house by Adolf Loos
Petite Palais (for an exhibit on the Photographs of Charlotte Perriand)
Lunch on your own (Café in the Petite Palais or surrounding area)
Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
Optional visit: Palais Toyko (it's next to the Musee d’Art Moderne)
READING:
#38 "Ornament and Crime" by A. Loos pp. 348-354 in Architecture and Design in Europe and America, 1750-2000 A. Harrison-Moore and D. Rowe Eds.; D-H Kahnweiler, excerpt from "The Rise of Cubism", 1915 in H. Chipp, Theories of Modern Art pp.248-259; Piet Mondrian, "Plastic Art and Pure Plastic Art (aka "Figurative Art and Non-Figurative Art") 1937 from H. Chipp, Theories of Modern Art pp.349-364; Tristan Tzara, "Lecture on Dada," 1924 in H. Chipp, Theories of Modern Art pp.385-391; "After Cubism" by Ozenfant and Jeanneret in Carol Eliel ed., L'Espirit Nouveau: Purism in Paris 1918-1925; "Duchamp and the Geography of Paris,” by James Housefield in Geographical Review
June 4, 2011: Day 10: Saturday TOWARDS A NEW ARCHITECTURE: Purism in Architecture
Meet at 8:30 at the Hostel
10:00 Tour of Corbusier Foundation: Maison La Roche
11:30 Tour of Le Corbusier's Studio/Apartment
Lunch on your own
Art Nouveau Walking tour (2:00 – 5:00)
READING: "Paris: The World of Art and Le Corbusier" Section Four, pp.201-263 in Theory and Design in the First Machine Age by Reyner Banham; excerpt #51 "Report of the De Stijl Group" pp. 402 and #52 "from Towards a New Architecture" by Le Corbusier pp. 403-410 in Architecture and Design in Europe and America, 1750-2000 A. Harrison-Moore and D. Rowe Eds.; and “France” in Frank Russell, Ed., Art Nouveau Architecture
June 5, 2011: Day 11: Sunday TECHNOLOGY, (Artful) MACHINES AND PUBLIC SPACE
Meet at 9:00 at the Hostel
Cartier Foundation (Jean Nouvel)
Arab Institute (Jean Nouvel)
Brunch at the neighborhood American Diner [Breakfast in America]
Foundation Cartier-Bresson (1-3:30)
Centre Georges Pompidou (including Atelier Brancusi) 3:30 -7:30
READING: The Seven Ages of Paris, "Age Seven 1940-1969: DeGaulle"; or Graham Robb, Parisians: An Adventure History of Paris, " Expanding the Domain of the Possible" pp.347-379; The Situationist City "Introduction and Chapter 1" pp. 1-66 by Simon Sadler, MIT Press 1998; Comments on a Society of Spectacle by Guy Debord "Parts I-XIII" pp. 1-39 "Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" by Walter Benjamin or Ways of Seeing by John Berger et al, "Chapter 1" pp. 7-34, BBC/Penguin Books, 1972.
June 6, 2011: Day 12: Monday FEMINISM, GENDER AND THE BODY IN CONTEMPORARY PARIS
Meet at 9:00 at the Hostel
Frank Gehry’s Cinemathèque Francaise, Simone de Beauvoir bridge, D. Perrault's Bibliothèque Nationale de France; Optional visit: Colette (213 rue Saint-Honoré 75001 Paris, www.colette.fr/) and contemporary art galleries in and around the Marais.
READING: "The Pleasure of Architecture" (March 1977) pp.530-540 in Theorizing a New Agenda for Architecture 1965-1995 Kate Nesbitt Ed.; "Chapter 3" from Ways of Seeing by John Berger et al, BBC and Penguin Books, 1972; Graham Robb, Parisians: An Adventure History of Paris, " Lovers of Saint-Germain-des-Pres" pp.285-314.
excerpts from The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir.
June 7, 2011: Day 13: Tuesday RADICAL INVERSIONS: Deconstructing the Urban Park
Meeting time TBD
Le 104 (Renovated Art Space)
Parc de la Villette
Cite de la Musique
READING: "Architecture Where Desire Can Live: Jacques Derrida interviewed by Eva Meyer" in Theorizing a New Agenda for Architecture 1965-1995 Kate Nesbitt Ed. Excerpts from Designing Parks, by Lodewijk Baljon "Part One, Introduction" pp. 9-47, "Part Three, La Villette: An Instructive Lesson" pp. 166-238 and "Appendix" pp. 291-294.
June 8, 2011: Day 14 Wednesday RESEARCH DAY: Work on Individual Projects
Completion of Letters
Final Group Dinner
June 9, 2011: DEPARTURE: Students finished with coursework in Paris
Also:
June 29-30, 2011 (approximate dates): Required Project Review and Group Critique.
August 1, 2011 (final projects due to faculty).
Contemporary Art and Design Galleries
3rd arrondissement
Galerie Daniel Templon
30 rue Beaubourg
Paris 75003
Métro: Rambuteau
01.42.72.14.10
A contemporary gallery featuring established and up-and-coming artists.
Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin
76 rue de Turenne
Paris 75003
Métro: St-Sébastien-Froissart
01.42.16.79.79
One of the city’s hottest contemporary galleries, showing works by Sophie Calle, Maurizioo Cattelan, Wim Delvoye, Takashi Murakami and Jean-Michel Othoniel.
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac
7 rue Debelleyme
Paris 75003
Métro: Filles-du-Calvaire
01.42.72.99.00
A chic contemporary art gallery run by the noted Austrian dealer Ropac, located in a Marais courtyard. Among the artists he reagularly shows are Mimmo Paladino, Jean-Marc Bustamante, Tom Sachs and Gilbert & George.
Galerie Yvon Lambert
108 rue Vieille du Temple
Paris 75003
Métro: Filles-du-Calvaire
01.42.71.09.33
Lambert, who also has galleries in New York and London, is one of France’s most prominent contemporary art collectors—his own collection is on show in a private mansion-museum in Avignon, his home town. Among the artists shown at the Paris gallery are Kiefer, Serrano, Barceló, Wesselmann, Goldin and LeWitt.
Also:
Galerie Chantal Crousel
10, rue Charlot.
Established in 1980, the Chantal Crousel gallery strives to exhibit the work of a diverse range of international and French artists dedicated to the dialogue surrounding contemporary art and society.
Galerie Schleicher + Lange
12, rue de Picardie.
This young gallery was founded in 2004 by two Germans, Julia Schleicher and Andreas Lange, and has quickly earned a reputation for ambitious exhibitions featuring a diverse group of emerging artists.
Galerie Michel Rein
42, rue de Turenne.
Galerie Michel Rein is an important link in the contemporary art world of Paris. In addition to working with already established artists, the gallery is starting to show emerging artists from Eastern Europe.
4th arrondissement
180g
15 rue des Tournelle
Paris 75004
01.42.77.62.16
Happening art-and-fashion gallery in the Marais, home of the makers of the 2009 limited-edition Nike sneakers.
Jean-Jacques Dutko
4 rue de Bretonvilliers
Paris 75004
Métro: Sully-Morland
and on the Left Bank at
11 rue Bonaparte
Paris 75006
Métro: St. Germain des Prés
01.43.26.17.77 and 01.56.24.04.20
As well as his original gallery on the Left Bank, Art Deco and Art Modernes specialist Dutko has also opened a big new space on the Ile Saint Louis, both designed by star architect Jean-Michel Wilmotte. On the roster: Pierre Chareau, Paul Dupré-Lafon, Jean-Michel Frank, Jacques-Emile Ruhlmann, Marini.
12th arrondissement
Galerie VIA
29 ave Daumesnil
Paris 75012
Métro: Gare de Lyon
01.46.28.11.11
A gallery sponsored by the French furniture industry, specializing in young, up-and-coming designers.
13th arrondissement
Air de Paris
32, rue Louise Weiss.
Originally established in Nice by owners Florence Bonnefous and Edouard Merino, Air de Paris moved to Paris in 1994 and has since become renowned for its edgy exhibitions, which can also be found at Air2Paris, a hot new experimental space opened in 2003.
GB Agency
20, rue Louise Weiss.
Opened in 2001, GB Agency is known for exhibitions of conceptual art that challenge the idea of the gallery as an artistic space.
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