UNREASON AND ENLIGHTENMENT The Revolution and Terror in France When the American Revolutionary War was waged, the conflict was unpopular both in England and America. Only one third of the colonists supported and participated in the War. And yet the Revolution was...
AMERICAN REVOLUTION as ENLIGHTENMENT Social and Political Change Supported by the revolution in industrialized production, which enriched a new class of entrepreneurs, several important political revolutions cemented the middle class into power. Made by “new men,”...
THE NEOCLASSICISM OF JACQUES-LOUIS DAVID (1748-1825) Jacques-Louis David, the most prominent Neoclassical painter in France, shifted his artistic allegiances from a king to a revolution against that king to an emperor. Was the artist a man without principles or was he...
ART AND THE MODERN PUBLIC The Birth of Modern Patronage Spanning the seventeenth and eighteenth Centuries, the Enlightenment produced greater philosophical thinking than it did great works in the fine arts. In other words, new ideas and “progress” did not...
THE ENLIGHTENMENT AND SOCIETY The Moral Order, Part Three The question faced by the Enlightenment was how to create new world without God? What would be the basis of this new life? Spirituality was replaced with technology; religious laws were replaced by rational...
THE RISE OF NEOCLASSICISM The origins of Neoclassicism in art, architecture and interior décor was the excavation of long buried Roman cities, Pompeii and Herculaneum in the mid-eighteenth century. A popular correction of the late Baroque style and the ornamental...
THE ENLIGHTENMENT AGE OF REASON, PART TWO The Enlightenment is also referred to as The Age of Reason, a time period that stems from the awakening of European interest in science in the seventeenth century and ends with the unreason of the French Revolution at the end...
INTRODUCTION TO THE ENLIGHTENMENT A Question of Philosophy Like any great cultural change, the Enlightenment was long in gestation, but its range was short. The Enlightenment, a revolution in philosophy, was strictly a Western phenomenon, linked to Modernism in the...
DEFINING MODERN “Modern” is a Western and European concept and is, in effect, Eurocentric, impacting a limited part of the world. But these changes were profound and shaped the rest of the globe. Driven by technological innovations, the economy evolved...
DEFINING MODERN CULTURE What is Modern? Where is Modern? The term “modern” has been tossed around like a beach ball with the assumption that the word is understood in a global or universal sense. But “Modern” is essentially a Western concept, based upon...
EXPLAINING SOUNDBYTES IN MODERN ART Welcome to the twenty-first century. Millennial Education for the millennial mind is offered to students of art and art history. This podcast explains how listeners can use and employ the series which presents discussions of modern...
