From Monet to Van Gogh : a history of impressionism 1

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Richard Brettell, Professor of Aesthetic Studies at the University of Texas at Dallas, introduces the style, subject, and function of Impressionist painting by artists including Monet, Renoir, Cassatt, Cézanne, Toulouse-Lautrec, and Van Gogh. Explains how Impressionism changed the way that people see the world and examines how these artists documented life in the latter half of the 19th century and provided models of behavior, decorum, and urban beauty that persist to this day.  Read more... Abstract: Richard Brettell, Professor of Aesthetic Studies at the University of Texas at Dallas, introduces the style, subject, and function of Impressionist painting by artists including Monet, Renoir, Cassatt, Cézanne, Toulouse-Lautrec, and Van Gogh. Explains how Impressionism changed the way that people see the world and examines how these artists documented life in the latter half of the 19th century and provided models of behavior, decorum, and urban beauty that persist to this day Content: Disc 1: Lecture 1. The realist and the idealist -- Lecture 2. Napolean III's Paris -- Lecture 3. Baudelaire and the definition of Modernism -- Lecture 4. The shock of the new -- Lecture 5. The painters of modern life -- Lecture 6. Pierre-Auguste Renoir -- Disc 2: Lecture 7. Impressions in the countryside -- Lecture 8. Paris under siege -- Lecture 9. The first exhibition -- Lecture 10. Monet and Renoir in Argenteuil -- Lecture 11. Cézanne and Pissarro in Pontoise -- Lecture 12. Berthe Morisot -- Disc 3: Lecture 13. The third exhibition -- Lecture 14. Edgar Degas -- Lecture 15. Gustave Caillebotte -- Lecture 16. Mary Cassatt -- Lecture 17. Manet's later works -- Lecture 18. Departures -- Disc 4: Lecture 19. Paul Gauguin -- Lecture 20. The final exhibition -- Lecture 21. The studio of the south: Van Gogh and Gauguin -- Lecture 22. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec -- Lecture 23. The Nabis -- Lecture 24. La fin.