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Andr茅 Dombrowski

鈥淭he Impressionist Instant and the Poetics of the Schedule鈥�

鈥婣产蝉迟谤补肠迟: This lecture will consider the historical conjunction between the industrialization of time and Impressionism, the artistic style that made time and especially the instant its pivot. In particular, I will analyze the so-called 鈥渦nification of time鈥� in the 1870s to 1890s鈥攖he synchronization, standardization, and commercialization of precise time that marked the era鈥攁nd the pressures it put on the speeds of modern depiction. Claude Monet at the Gare Saint-Lazare鈥攐ne of the crucial sites of this transformation鈥攚ill be the focus.

Bio: Andr茅 Dombrowski鈥檚 research centers on the arts and material cultures of France and Germany in the mid to late nineteenth century, with an emphasis on the histories of science, politics, and psychology. He is particularly concerned with the social and intellectual rationales behind the emergence of avant-garde painting in the 1860s and 1870s, including Impressionism. Winner of the Phillips Book Prize from the Center for the Study of Modern Art at the Phillips Collection, he is author of听C茅zanne, Murder, and Modern Life听(University of California Press, 2013). The book analyzes C茅zanne鈥檚 early scenes of murder and sexual violence through the lens of pre-Freudian definitions of desire and instinct. He has started two new projects: one shorter book on the relation between Impressionism and the history of modern time-keeping (chapters will focus, for instance, on 鈥渞eaction time鈥� and the birth of Impressionism, or the advent of 鈥渦niversal time鈥� in 1884 and its relationship to the serried order of Seurat鈥檚 pointillist technique); and a longer study that will situate the innovations of 脡douard Manet鈥檚 major 1860s paintings within the Second Empire鈥檚 political and juridical cultures.
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