Summer 2011 Weekly Schedule


A note about image lists (slides): Each week's lecture images are linked to high-quality sources on the web, except for those accessible through the Kleiner materials. Unless you have an extraordinary memory, you will not pass either exam without having completed the slide lists for each week with both notes and images. Blank image lists are now linked below and on the main Slides page in .rtf and .pdf electronic files. Participation grades will be determined by weekly attendance and successful completion of Workshops (for which you must be present to earn credit).

Some changes have been made as of week 8. Please note them carefully and act accordingly.

Week Topic Assignment
1 Neoclassicism and Romanticism: The Art of Revolution
Video: J. M. W. Turner
(link is to an excerpt)
Kleiner, pp. 324-348
Timeline of Art History Thematic Essay: The Printed Image in the West:History and Techniques; Turner and Printmaking (Tate); slide list [.rtf] [.pdf]
2 Realism and Impressionism: Art, Technology, and the Beginnings of Modernism
Workshop (at home): Photography Before Color
Kleiner 349-369; Timeline of Art History Thematic Essays: Nineteenth-Century French Realism; Impressionism: Art and Modernity; Daguerre and the Invention of Photography
Slide list [.rtf] [.pdf]
3

From the Gothic Revival to the Fin de Siècle: Art, craft, design, and the roots of modernism in the nineteenth century

Excerpt from Ruskin's On the Nature of Gothic; Timeline of Art History Thematic Essay: The Pre-Raphaelites, Art Nouveau and The Print in the Nineteenth Century. National Gallery of Art Exhibit: The Pre-Raphaelite Lens
Slide list [.rtf] [.pdf]
4

Post-Impressionism, Cubism, and Abstraction: the Modernist Impulse
Video: Picasso and Braque: A New Way of Seeing

Kleiner 370-415 (rest of the quarter). Clement Greenberg, "Modernist Painting," Timeline of Art History Thematic Essays: Cubism, Pablo Picasso, African Influences in Modern Art
Slide list [.rtf] [.pdf]

5 Midterm exam Study guide
6 The Modernist Impulse, continued: From Representation to Abstraction. (See week 4 list)
Video: The Bauhaus, Face of the Twentieth Century
Final project introduction and discussion
Collage and Papier Collé workshop (take-home; due week 7)

Bauhaus Manifesto; Bauhaus Links (build your own slide list)
Timeline of Art History Thematic Essays: The Bauhaus; Photography at the Bauhaus; MoMA exhibit, Bauhaus: Workshops for Modernity
Project guidelines; Research resources
Museum Analysis Essay guidelines; Note-taking template for Museum Analysis (.pdf)

7

Research and project development workshop.

Project guidelines; Research resources

8 Thanksgiving Holiday (Wednesday - Friday)

Class does not meet.

9

Art between the Wars part 1: Art, Ideas, and Politics
Note: because of the Museum Analysis assignment, the Matisse workshop is cancelled; the points will be added to the analysis essay.

Futurist Manifesto; Kasimir Malevich, Suprematism; Andre Breton, Surrealist Manifesto. slide list [.rft] [.pdf]

Final project due for extra credit.
10

Art Between the Wars part 2: Degenerate Art
Video: Entartete Kunst
CAAP test (mandatory, but extra credit awarded)

Degenerate Art; catalogue of the video (build your own slide list; see workshop)
Final Project due for full credit.

11 Final Exam Scavenger hunt and Formal Analysis Essay due
Study guide for final exam
Final Project due for reduced credit (-10 points)
syllabus l home l slide lists
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