Transcript Trials of Modernity: Nineteenth

Trials of Modernity:
Nineteenth-Century Precursors of Modernism
Realism
Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary (1857) and Sentimental Education (1869)
Gustave Courbet
Honoré de Balzac, Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Leo Tolstoy, George Eliot
Charles Baudelaire, Flowers of Evil (1857)
Naturalism
Emile Zola, Thérèse Raquin (1867)
Decadence
Joris Karl Huysmans, Against Nature (À Rebours; 1884)
Symbolism
Stéphane Mallarmé, “L’Après-Midi d’un Faune” (1876; later, music by Claude Debussy)
Impressionism
Edouard Manet, inspiration to the impressionists
Edgar Degas, older contemporary of the impressionists
Claude Monet
Henry James (1843-1916)
Claude Debussy, “Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun,”
performed by the Detroit Symphony Orchestra
Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880)
Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867)
Claude Monet, Saint-Lazare Train Station (1887)
Gustave Courbet, “The Stonebreakers” (1850)
Edouard Manet, Street Pavers in the Rue Mosnier (1878)
Gustave Courbet,
“Hunter on Horseback
Recovering the Trail”
(1864)
Yale University Art Gallery
“The artist in his work
should be like God in
the universe, present
everywhere and
visible nowhere.”
Gustave Flaubert
(1821-1880)
She repeated, “I have a lover! a lover!”
delighting at the idea as if a second
puberty had come to her. So at last she
was to know those joys of love, that fever
of happiness of which she had despaired!
She was entering upon a marvelous world
where all would be passion, ecstasy,
delirium.
From Madame Bovary
Jane Austen (1775-1817)
Edouard Manet, Olympia (1863)
Edouard Manet, Portait of Emile Zola (1868)
Baudelaire and his successors
Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867)
Stéphane Mallarmé (1842-1898)
Joris Karl Huysmans (1848-1907)
Composers
Richard Wagner (1813-1883)
Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Painters
Edouard Manet (1832-1883)
Edgar Degas (1834-1917)
Claude Monet (1840-1926)
Gustave Courbet, The Painter's Studio: A Real-Life-Allegory of the Last Seven Years of My Life (1855), with Baudelaire at far right
Edgar Degas,
Absinthe
(1876)
Gustave Moreau,
Salomé Dancing Before Herod
(1876)
Edouard Manet, Portrait of Stéphane Mallarmé (1876)
Edgar Degas, The Ballet Class (1874)
Claude Monet,
Boulevard des Capucines
(1873-4)
Edouard Manet, Déjeuner sur l’Herbe (Luncheon on the Grass; 1863)
Edouard Manet, “Young Woman Reclining in Spanish Costume” (1862-63)
Yale University Art Gallery
Claude Monet, Impression: Sunrise (1872)
John Singer Sargent, sketch
for a portrait of Henry James
Yale Collection of American Literature,
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library