From Arts & Crafts to the Aesthetic Movement in Art and Architecture with Francis Morrone
Starts September 18, 2024, and concludes October 23, 2024; 5 sessions from 3:00-4:00 p.m.
$200; $180 for 92nd Street Y members
Offered by Roundtable by The 92nd Street Y, New York
In this five-session course, popular Roundtable instructor Francis Morrone — esteemed architectural historian and professor at New York University — will survey the art, architecture, and decorative arts of the late nineteenth century, a time of quickly shifting aesthetics and prolific creativity.
Course Overview
Travel from the British Isles and France to the United States with Francis Morrone as he explores the remarkable explosion of creativity that resulted from artists, writers, and audiences seeking to preserve handicrafts and the prerogatives of untrammeled imagination in a new era of breathtaking — and frightening — change brought on by industrialization, routinization, and urbanization. In these lavishly illustrated lectures, Morrone will start in the late nineteenth century as critic and artist John Ruskin and the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood espoused artistic renewal in the face of industrialization. He will then highlight William Morris and the Arts & Crafts Movement, as well as Britain’s Aesthetic Movement and France’s Symbolists and Decadents, and finish with a survey of the American Arcadian Revival.
Please note, there is no class on Wednesday, October 2, in observance of the first day of Rosh Hashanah.
This is a live, virtual course hosted by Roundtable, which includes interactive opportunities and post-course recordings available for all course participants.
Syllabus
Session 1: The Background: John Ruskin and the Pre-Raphaelites
Sep 18th 3:00 - 4:00 PM ET
Duration 60 min
Session 2: William Morris and the Arts & Crafts Movement
Sep 25th 3:00 - 4:00 PM ET
Duration 60 min
Session 3: The Aesthetic Movement in Britain
Oct 9th 3:00 - 4:00 PM ET
Duration 60 min
Session 4: Symbolists and Decadents in France
Oct 16th 3:00 - 4:00 PM ET
Duration 60 min
Session 5: America and the Arcadian Revival
Oct 23rd 3:00 - 4:00 PM ET
Duration 60 min
About Francis Morrone
Francis Morrone is the author of thirteen books, including Guide to New York City Urban Landscapes (W.W. Norton, 2013) and, with Henry Hope Reed, The New York Public Library: The Architecture and Decoration of the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building (W.W. Norton, 2011), as well as architectural guidebooks to Philadelphia and Brooklyn. He was for six and a half years an art and architecture critic for the New York Sun. He is the recipient of the Arthur Ross Award of the Institute of Classical Architecture and Art, of the Landmarks Lion Award of the Historic Districts Council, and of New York University's Excellence in Teaching Award.