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Students role-play 1889 World’s Fair in Paris
Aliou Ly as art buyer Henry LaRolle and Noah Farmer as artist Camille Pissarro
Students reenact the Paris World’s Fair of 1889 in a combined course module for HIST 4740: American Cultural and Intellectual History and FREN 3110: French and Francophone Culture, co-taught by professors Susan Myers- Shirk and Joan McRae.
The Reacting to the Past game called Art in Paris: Modernism vs. Traditionalism uses an innovative pedagogy of assigning roles for students to reenact the past at a pivotal historical moment.
Here they relive the 1889 World’s Fair in Paris, when the Eiffel Tower opened and art shows attracted high and low culture from around the world to see the paintings of the Impressionists, the Post-Impressionists, and the Academy of Arts’ traditionalist painters.
John R. Vile as art buyer Roger Marx and Ivy Cook as artist Claude Monet
Talia Harris as artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and Abby Broughton as art buyer Pierre Muston
Abby Broughton’s French class
