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Jasper
Rose, Art History 10C lectures at UC Santa Cruz from April to
June 1985
How the videos came
to be created
VHS videotapes were
created of UCSC Art History professor Jasper Rose's Art History
10C lectures in Spring Quarter 1985. The total number of
students in the class exceeded 400, and also surpassed the
seating capacity of the lecture hall. The reason the classes
were recorded on videotape was to allow students to view each
lecture on videotape in the library at a later time if they were
unable to attend a particular lecture.
VHS video quality of
1985
The quality of the video
recordings range from modestly good to very poor. There are many more
fairly satisfactory recordings than bad. Problems include: Sound
is too loud, distorted sound, echoed sound, sound is too distant
(Jasper stepped away from the microphone), microphone and
machine buzz, and the picture is too dark. However, we are so
very fortunate to have some of Jasper’s lectures preserved for
us at all. One
additional very poorly recorded video
from April 10, 1985 is not indexed on YouTube, but is available from this link.
https://youtu.be/abiir0ZZzNg
April 12, 1985
Marrying Words and Image,
The Influence of the Industrial Revolution on Art in the Late 18th
through the 19th Century including an animated description of the
different Printmaking Techniques, Early photographers
Details
https://youtu.be/FsCubZZg-tM
April 15, 1985
Survey of
Late 17th Century European Art including the Death of many Great
Painters, the Ascendance of Science and beginning of the Age of
Reason
Details
https://youtu.be/YgVDKObc7IQ
April 17, 1985
Heroic and Mock Heroic, The Court of Versailles ,
Hampton Court, 17th‐18th Centuries, Architecture, Tapestry, Pastel
Details
https://youtu.be/ffgClEO48JA
April 19, 1985
The 18th Century, The
Effervescence of Life in the works of Watteau, The Galant Attitude
towards Women, La Fête Galantes and pastel drawings, Harmony with
Nature
Details
https://youtu.be/3g0hkbyp-AY
April 22, 1985
The Other Side of the 18th
Century and of The Channel, Censorship in France, Porcelain,
Chinoiserie, Connection between Painting and Literature in
England
Details
https://youtu.be/Mifh_1vahv4
April 26, 1985 (Mask Day)
Mask Day: Like a ringleader
in a Max Ophüls film, Jasper directs hundreds of masked students
onto and off the stage. Mary Holmes is a guest professor and
speaks briefly about the importance of masks in our lives
Details
https://youtu.be/Mh338dbVawU
April 29, 1985
The 18th Century Overview ,
Mozart the Magic Flute , Artists dealing with Contemporary
Issues through Neo‐ Classicism, The work of David and Canova,
Changes in Population, The waning of Rococo and the Evasions of
the Social World, New Sources for Understanding Ancient Art,
Classicism shades into Romanticism
Details
https://youtu.be/27yL8Y968WE
May 1, 1985
Beethoven's 5th Symphony,
Goethe The Sorrows of Young Werther, Larger than Life Emotions,
Canova and the Influence of Early Italian Painting, John
Singleton Copley, Benjamin West Uses Contemporary Heroes as
Subject Matter, Goya.
Details
https://youtu.be/L-rj4MnaoiM
May 3, 1985
The Career of Francisco
Goya
Details
https://youtu.be/RL3ojp6G58U
May 6, 1985
The Revolutionary and
Napoleonic Wars, Successful Repression of Revolution in England,
1805 Germany Remodeled, Republic of Venice Collapses, Napoleon
marries into Hapsburg Family, Imperial Rule in Spain, Italy,
Swiss Alps, Germany, Napoleons Exile on St. Helena after defeat
in Russia, Theme in J W Turners Work, Empires Come and Go,
Nature Persists, World Sorrow, Soul Searching , Lessons of War,
Spain Becomes Romantic and influences Merimee, Manet, 19th
Century Love of Animals
Details
https://youtu.be/iWelOmvpfOE
May 8, 1985
Late 18th through 19th
Centuries, The Flight from Contemporary Society, Use of History
to Look for a Universal Message, Delacroix and the Exotic, Greek
Independence, The Orientalists, Meditation and the Landscape ,
Removal in Time and Space, Art Colonies, Influence of Italy on
Landscape Painting in France , Germany and England, The Epoch of
the Sea , Symbol of Eternity, Destiny, Human Life, Passage of
Time, Personification of Nature, Late 18th through Mid 19th
Century Primacy of English Landscape Painting, Rise of the
Amateur Painter and Characteristics of Watercolour Painting
Details
https://youtu.be/FfFd07rj7tQ
May 10, 1985
The Works of JWM Turner, In
Relation to Samuel Palmer, John Constable, Interest in work of
Claude Lorraine
Details
https://youtu.be/MpglPt61CCY
May 13, 1985
1830-1860, Theodore
Rousseau and the Barbizon School, Corot, Samuel Palmer, John
Constable National Landscape Vision, Wide Variety of Landscape
in United States, Bierstadt, Thomas
Details
https://youtu.be/EKt0UA_r7jY
May 15, 1985
The Work of Eugene
Delacroix, the Influence of Novels and Historical Themes, North
African Scenes, Ingres, Richard Bonnington, Paul de La Roche,
Charles Robert Leslie, William Blake, Overbeck, William Dice,
Arthur Hughes, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Medievalism in England,
Modernism in France
Details
https://youtu.be/pzD33BCyc2c
May 17, 1985
Jasper sings a bit of
Gilbert and Sullivan's Patience, 19th Century England,
Home of Refugees from the European Revolutions, The Pre
Raphaelite Brotherhood, Rebuilding of the Houses of Parliament
after the 1830 Fire, World Fair Exposition of 1851, First World
Peace Movement, Battle of Architectural Styles, Aesthetic vs.
Practical in Building, Modernism vs. Historicism
Details
https://youtu.be/yq-oTU4F1OU
May 20, 1985
The students cover the
walls and tables with art projects. Jasper congratulates them on
their efforts and talks about as many of the diverse paintings,
photographs and sculptures as possible. He encourages them to
persevere and discusses the qualities needed to develop skill
Details
https://youtu.be/UH_N8qi9WLo
May 22, 1985
The Modernization of Cities
in the 19th Century, Rising Colonialism, Social Upheaval, The
Irish Famine, Propaganda, Democracy, Nationalism, Autocracy,
Censorship in Russia, Relatively Free Press in England
Details
https://youtu.be/FfVVcR6Jb7o
May 24, 1985
Comparison of the classical
form of a symphony by Beethoven with Debussy's La Mer, which is
held together-by mood rather than structure, Comparison of 4
paintings: Hunt, Manet, Renior, Courbet
Details
https://youtu.be/_6MimUJ-_WA
May 29, 1985
Jasper announces talks
about upcoming test and offers prize of one of his paintings.
Jasper makes a good case asking students to consider not writing
an evaluation of their professors. A Focus on Women Artists,
Their Difficulty in Getting Anatomical Training and Financial
Support, Discusses 18th and 19th Century Women Painters, The
Emergence of Photography as an Art Form, Considers Women as the
Greatest Photographers, Discusses Role of Photography in Aiding
Painters, Science and Art in Photography
Details
https://youtu.be/RBQCbsXzObU
May 31, 1985
The Difficulties of Women
Artists, Relationship of Content to Style, Naturalism vs. Social
Realism in 19th Century, Increasing Social Consciousness and
Effort to Deal with Industrialization, Political Realism, Art
for Art’s Sake Details
Details
https://youtu.be/22Ifp3iee-w
June 3, 1985
The New World Symphony, Who
Were the Impressionists? Place and Chronology 1868-1880-81,
"True Impressionists, " Painters Influenced by Impressionism,
Peripheral Impressionists, Landscape of Place, North Coast of
France, Normandy, Paris and its Environs, Characteristics of
Impressionism, Edouard Manet, " Most Paradoxical of Painters,"
Characteristics of Monet’s Paintings, Comparison of
Impressionist Painters Work at La Grouenoillier
Details
https://youtu.be/048TBUM4LIw
June 5, 1985
Wagner, Jasper commences class by
reading Gerald Manley Hopkins and discusses his strange rhythms
and lack of success, Comparison of Hopkins and Walt Whitman,
Official and Unofficial Art, Salon des Réfuses, Realism Combines
with Symbolism in the works of Henrik Ibsen, Development in Late
Monet, The Work and Influences on James Mc Neill Whistler,
Historicism in 19th Century Architecture, Louis Sullivan and the
Transition into High Rises, Early 20th Century Painting and
Architecture, Impressionist Sculpture, Art Nouveau, Painters who
move into Sculpture
Details
https://youtu.be/2KnYE7jSqBE
June 7, 1985
Friedrich Nietzsche
identifies two basic principles, the Apollonian vs the
Dionysian, Two opposed ways of shaping the universe, Art in the
Early 20th Century, The Work of Paul Cezanne contrasted with the
work Vincent Van Gogh, The Apollonian leading to Mondrian, The
Dionysian leading to Boccionni, The Role of Geometry in the Work
of Cézanne, Seurat, the Cubists, Mondrian, Leger, de Chirico,
Morandi and Balthus, The Role of the Irrational , the Darker
Side in the Work of Van Gogh, Boccionni, Munch, Vlaminck, Nolde,
Bacon, The Checkered and Complicated History of 20 th Century
Art
Details
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* Video 27 of 27
A Poor Quality Video:
April 10, 1985
The link for this video is only available from
above. It is not indexed on YouTube.
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UCSC students protesting
against UC investments in apartheid South Africa
in April
1985 touched Jasper's classes
Spring Quarter 1985 at UC Santa Cruz was
a time of active student protests against the UC Regents holding
investments in apartheid South Africa, and for the University to
divest those investments. During one protest session, UCSC
students renamed the UCSC McHenry Library the "Nelson Mandela
Library." At the time, Mandela was a political prisoner in South
Africa. A one-day student strike was called for a day when
Jasper's Art History 10C class was scheduled to meet.
Jasper speaks about
the protests and South Africa
Jasper brings up the subject of
apartheid South Africa on many occasions during his classes. At
one point Jasper makes a reference to South African 'Krugerrands," which were gold coins
minted by the apartheid South African government for export. The
United States banned the import of Krugerrands in 1985.
Democrats in the U.S.
Senate initially tried to pass an Anti-Apartheid Act in
September 1985, but were blocked by Republicans. Shortly
thereafter, U.S. President Ronald Reagan implemented some
limited sanctions against apartheid South Africa. The
Anti-Apartheid Act was re-introduced by Democrats in June 1986,
and passed both houses of Congress, but was vetoed by President
Reagan. Congress proceeded to override Reagan’s veto with the
Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act of 1986 that imposed sanctions
on South Africa.
South African apartheid
ended in the early 1990s and Nelson Mandela became became the
first black and freely elected president of South Africa.
Santa Cruz
newspaper stories:
April 18, 1985
Peace sit-in continues at UCSC library
Chancellor adds voice to protest
Regent Yvonne Burke champions protesters
Students gate for noon rally
UC South Africa investments
April 23, 1985
Chancellor tells staff to carry on despite boycott
April 24, 1985
Day of protest at UCSC campus
April 25, 1985
One-day strike ends at UCSC
April 26, 1985
UCSC officials taking wait-and-see approach to June’s Regents
meeting
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