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ARTS & HUMANITIES

HISTORY OF IMPRESSIONISM II

Thursdays, 1–3 pm
7 weeks, Sept. 15–Nov. 3, no class Oct. 13
$40
Video lectures, slides, discussion, participant reports

If you love the French impressionists (and who doesn’t?), you’ll love this course. Here’s your chance to take a closer look at some of the artists who ignited one of the most exciting artistic revolutions in history. Lectures serve up a savory stew of cultural and political history, biography, and visual treasures to focus on the lives and careers of Degas, Caillebotte, Mary Cassatt, Monet, Renoir, Van Gogh, Gauguin, and Toulouse-Lautrec. You’ll see how this close-knit group of artists responded to Baudelaire’s call for paintings of “modern life” during a period rife with radical social and intellectual change.