Date/Time: Thursday, January 16 7:00PM, MST.
This will be an in-person meeting in the Palm Room at the Clark Park Community Center in Tempe. Located on Roosevelt Street (NW of Broadway and Mill in Tempe), our new digs are a bright and comfortable place to learn, laugh, eat, and catch up.
Not a member yet? Sign up for this event using the form at the bottom.
Speaker’s name: Julie Codell
Dr. Julie Codell
Bio:
Julie Codell is Art History Professor in the School of Art at Arizona State University and affiliate in Film, English, and Asian Studies. She has a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, Comparative Arts, from Indiana University, a certificate in Renaissance Studies from Indiana, an MA in art history from Indiana, an MA in English from The University of Michigan, a BA in English from Vassar College. She wrote The Victorian Artist (2003; 2012); edited Victorian Artists’ Autograph Replicas; Transculturation in British Art; Power and Resistance; Imperial Co-Histories; and Genre, Gender, Race, and World Cinema. She co-edited Replication in the Long 19th Century (2018); Orientalism, Eroticism and Modern Visuality; Encounters in the Victorian Press, and Orientalism Transposed (reprinted in Routledge classics series). She has guest edited 5 journals and published 120 book chapters, journal articles and encyclopedia entries. She received fellowships from ASU’s Humanities Institute, the National Endowment for the Humanities, The Getty Research Center, The Kress Foundation, the Huntington Library, The University of Texas Ransom Center, the American Institute for Indian Studies, and Yale’s British Art Center.
Title of presentation: Impressionism: How It Got To Be So Famous
The route to the tremendous popularity of Impressionism was complicated and uphill, being at first unpopular in France. It depended on the strenuous efforts of the group’s dealer, Paul Durand-Ruel, on American collectors he courted, on artists’ fleeing to London after the Franco-Prussian War 1870-71, on Durand-Ruel creating a gallery in London, on other dealers’ efforts in London, and on efforts by the artists’ themselves to intervene in the art market. Their artistic success reveals how important the new dealer system became at the end of the 19th century, and how vital American collectors were in promoting these artists in the US where their market flourished.
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet
Mary Cassatt, Woman in a Loge (At the Opera), 1879.
Edgar Degas, The Rehearsal on stage. 1874
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Dance at Moulin de la Galette, 1876, oil on canvas. 131 X 175 cm. Musée d’Orsay.