Art in the Age of Revolution

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This course examines painting and sculpture produced in France, Britain, and the United States in the second half of the eighteenth century, with a general concern for the emerging dialectic between art making and industrial and political revolt around the key dates of 1776, 1780, and 1789. Major art styles include the Rococo, the Cult of Sensibility, Neoclassicism, and Romanticism