Key Concepts

• The experiences of everyday life were shaped by industrialization, depending on the level of industrial development in a particular location. (3.2)
• European ideas and culture expressed a tension between objectivity and scientific realism on one hand, and subjectivity and individual expression on the other. (3.6)

Readings

• Beethoven's Famous 4 Notes: Truly Revolutionary Music
• Primary sources - art & literature analysis
  • Brothers Grimm, Mary Shelley, Walter Scott, Lord Byron, Haydn, Mozart, Friedrich, and Delacroix, Courbet, Millet, Renoir, Monet, Manet, Cezanne, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Picasso, Kandinsky, Beethoven, Chopin

Thematic essay: Analyze artistic and literary responses to industrialization over the course of the 19th century. (2009B Q5)