Discussion topic:
Postcolonial theory and the horrors and pleasures of Romanticism

Assignment:
Complete the readings and prepare answers for the following questions in your journal.

1) Last week you discussed the political and artistic creation of the individual. In your reading on "Cultural Studies and postcolonial theory," Anne D'ALLEVA writes instead about human "subjects," "subjectivity," and "identity." How does she define these terms and explain their use by contemporary scholars?
2) On pp. 84-84 D'ALLEVA offers several examples of ways to study figure 3.7 using postcolonial or subaltern studies. Using these as a model, generate your own questions and observations about the images below.
3) Last week we saw images that related to two revolutions. How do these images relate (whether explicitly or implicitly) to contemporary politics? How do the artists invite us to feel about or react to these subjects?

	Antoine-Jean GROS (1771-1835) Napoleon in the Plague House at Jaffa 1804 Oil on canvas 5.32 x 7.2 m. Paris: Louvre		Jean-Auguste-Dominique INGRES (1780-1867) Large Odalisque 1814 Oil on canvas 88.9 x 162.5 cm. Paris:Louvre
	Théodore GÉRICAULT (1791-1824) Raft of the "Medusa" 1818-19 Oil on canvas 4.9 x 7.16 m. Paris: Louvre		Eugène DELACROIX (1798-1863) Scenes from the Massacre at Chios 1822-24 Oil on canvas 4.22 x 3.53 m. Paris: Louvre
	Eugène DELACROIX (1798-1863) Women of Algiers 1834 Oil on canvas 1.8 x 2.29 Paris: Louvre		Francisco GOYA (1746-1828) Third of May, 1808 1814-15 Oil on canvas 2.67 x 4.06 m. Madrid: Prado
	Francisco GOYA (1746-1828) The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters, No. 43 from Los Caprichos (The Caprices) 1796-98, published 1799 Etching and aquatint

Readings:
* STOKSTAD, AH , "Romantic Painting," 924-926; "Europe and the United States in the Nineteenth Century," "Early Nineteenth-Century Art: Neoclassicism and Romanticism," "Neoclassicism and Romanticism in France," "David and his Students," "Romantic Painting," "The Object Speaks: Raft of the Medusa," pp. 942-952; "Romantic Landscape Painting in Europe," 942-958
* D'ALLEVA, "Cultural Studies and Postcolonial Theory"