COURSE SCHEDULE
Week 1.1:
Course introduction: scope, issues, requirements
Week 1.2:
Histories of modern art — on evolution and teleology
No required reading
Week 2.1:
Academies and the Grand Tour: norms and networks
No required reading
Week 2.2:
Revolution!
Required reading: Boime 1987 (from Art in an Age of Revolution 1750-1800)
Week 3.1:
Neoclassicism (1)
Required reading: Irwin 1997 (from Neoclassicism)
Week 3.2:
Neoclassicism (2)
Required reading: Ingres c. 1820-1848 (from Ingres’ Notebooks)
Week 4.1:
Romanticism
Required reading: Delacroix 1822-1824 (from Delacroix’s Journals);
Friedrich c. 1830 (“Observations on Viewing a Collection of Paintings”)
Week 4.2:
Naturalism and Realism
Required reading: Courbet 1855 (“Statement on Realism”)
Week 5.1:
Academic and “independent” art
Required reading: Manet 1865 (Excerpts from critical reactions to Manet’s Olympia)
Week 5.2:
Impressionism
Required reading: Eisenman 1986 (“The intransigent artist or how the Impressionists got their name")
Week 6.1:
Post-Impressionism (1)
Required reading: Shiff 1984 (from Cézanne and the End of Impressionism)
Week 6.2:
Post-Impressionism (2)
Required reading: - Fénéon 1887 ( “Neo-Impressionism”)
- Denis 1890 and 1903(”Definition of Neotraditionism” and
“The Influence of Paul Gauguin”)
Week 7.1
Fauvism and Expressionism
Required reading: Matisse 1908 and 1947(“Notes of a Painter” and “Exactitude is not Truth”)
Week 7.2
Cubism
Required reading: Fry 1966 (“The History of Cubism”)
Week 8.1
Futurism
Required reading: Marinetti 1909 (First Futurist Manifesto)
Week 9.1:
Constructivism and Suprematism
Required reading: Tatlin 1919 (”The Initiative Individual in the Collective”) and
Malevitch 1927 )“Suprematism”)
Week 9.2:
Midterm review and final paper workshop
Week 10.1:
Midterm examination
Week 10.2:
Bauhaus and De Stijl
Required reading: Gropius 1923 (“Theory and Organization of the Bauhaus”)
Week 11.1:
Dada, Duchamp and Art between the two World Wars
Required reading: Harrison and Wood 1993 (“Introduction to Rationalization and Transformation”)
Week 11.2:
Surrealism
Required reading: Aragon (et alii) 1925 (“Declaration of the Bureau of Surrealist Research”)
Week 12.1:
Abstract Expressionism
Required reading: Greenberg 1961 (“Modernist Painting”)
Week 12.2:
Pop Art
Required reading: - Hamilton 1961 (“For the Finest Art, Try Pop”)
- Warhol 1963 (“Interview with Gene Swenson”)
Week 13.1:
Minimalism and Conceptual Art; Site-Specific and Environmental Art
Required reading: - Fried 1967 (“Art and Objecthood”)
- Smithson 1968 ( “A Sedimentation of the Mind: Earth Projects”)
Week 13.2:
Happenings, Performance art; the Politics of Institutional Critique and Postmodernism (1)
Required reading: - Haacke 1974 (“Statement”)
- Lyotard 1982 (“What is Postmodernism?”)
Week 14.1:
Post-modern practices (2): The Return of Painting and Figuration;
Required reading: - Trachtman 2007 (Figuration in Contemporary Painting)
- Bourriaud 2002 (“Relational Aesthetics” note: only pages 11-24)
Week 14.2:
Course Review and PAPER DUE
Week 15:
Final Exam