Event

Tuesday Tea / "Unreal City": Dreamworld and Class Struggle in Monet's Paris

Date, time, location

Date

Tuesday, November 11, 2025

Time

3:00 pm to 4:00 pm

Location

Allen Memorial Art Museum

87 N. Main St.
Oberlin, OH 44074

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Cost

Free

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Claude Monet’s art—and the city of Paris during his formative years—are often framed as serene, timeless icons of cultural heritage. In contrast, the Allen’s exhibition Picturing Paris: Monet and the Modern City reveals the political unrest simmering beneath that surface. In this talk, Assistant Professor of History Nicholas Bujalski examines how the upheavals of 19th-century Paris—revolution, urban transformation, and civil war—not only shaped Monet’s world but left their mark on the emerging Impressionist style, where bourgeois calm meets a city in flux.

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Open to all members of the public