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JOHN CABOT UNIVERSITY
COURSE CODE: "AH 251"
COURSE NAME: "Nineteenth Century Art and Architecture"
SEMESTER & YEAR:
Fall Semester 2012
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SYLLABUS
INSTRUCTOR:
Georgi Karen
EMAIL: [email protected]
HOURS:
TTH 11:30-12:45
TOTAL NO. OF CONTACT HOURS:
45
CREDITS:
3
PREREQUISITES:
OFFICE HOURS:
TH 12:45-13:45
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COURSE DESCRIPTION:
The course will introduce many of the famous and canonical "isms" in Nineteenth-century European and American art, beginning with French Academic Neoclassicism and ending with Post-Impressionism.The Nineteenth century is the century in which the modern art museum, the discipline of art history, and many of the values we most readily identify with "Art" all developed. The course will thus examine the critical and historical context as well as the artworks in order to consider the relationship between the development of modern art history and the rise of nationhood; the intersection of new art audiences and markets and the eventual predominance of the individual and her/his subjective vision as fundamental goals in art.
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SUMMARY OF COURSE CONTENT:
Rather than attempting to be a general survey, the course will examine fewer artists in greater depth, giving particular focus to comparisons between the art of Western Europe and that of the US. The comparison will highligh the key ideas outlined in the course aims. The course will also examine some lesser-known artworks, which are particularly relevant for students studying in Italy. These will include the "Macchiaoli" and the numerous antebellum American sculptors who lived and worked in Rome and Florence. In keeping with the goal of studying Nineteenth-century art in its relationship to nation-building, identity, and the development of art history as a discipline, the architecture of the course will be museum architecture.
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LEARNING OUTCOMES:
Students who conscientiously apply themselves will become conversant in key 19th century American and European movements and artists and the critical discourses with which they were elaborated and defined. They will also develop skills for visually analyzing and recognizing forms and competently assessing stylistic differences with an understanding of how such styles communicated historically. They will begin to grasp the complex role of art in society and the ideological bases for 19th century notions of art that are still with us today.
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TEXTBOOK:
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REQUIRED RESERVED READING:
| Book Title | Author | Publisher | ISBN number | Library Call Number | Comments |
| Realism | Nochlin, Linda | | 0140132228 | | |
| The Painting of Modern Life: Paris in the Art of Manet and his Followers | Clark, T.J. | | xxxxxx | | |
| Art in Theory, 1815-1900: An Anthology of Changing Ideas | Harrison, Charles, Paul Wood, Jason Gaiger, eds. | | 0631200657 | | |
| Ninetheenth-Century Art: A Critical History | Eisenman, Stephen, ed. | | 9780500286838 | | |
| Empire of the Eye: Landscape Representation and American Cultural Politics, 1825-1875 | Miller, Angela | | xxxx | | |
| Art History and Its Institutions: Foundations of a Discipline | Mansfield, Elizabeth, ed. | | 9780415228695 | | |
| Inventing the Modern Artist: Art and Culture in Gilded Age America | Burns, Sarah | | 0300064454 | | |
| American Encounters: Art, History, and Cultural Identity | Miller, Angela, et. al. | | 9780130300041 | | |
| Art in Age of Revolution, 1750-1800 | Boime, Albert | | 0226063321 | | |
| Selected Writings of John Ruskin | Ruskin, John (ed.Robert Herbert) | | 00000000 | | |
| Neoclassism and Romanticism, 1750-1850: Sources and Documents | Eitner, Lorenz | | 0000000 | | |
| Modernism | Harrison, Charles | | 000000 | | |
RECOMMENDED RESERVED READING:
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GRADING POLICY
-ASSESSMENT METHODS:
| Assignment | Guidelines | Weight |
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| midterm exam | | 25 % |
| final exam | | 30% |
| term paper | | 25% |
| presntation/short papers | | 20% |
-ASSESSMENT CRITERIA:
Please see John Cabot website for official definitions
-ATTENDANCE REQUIREMENTS:
Attendance is mandatory.
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ACADEMIC HONESTY
As stated in the university catalog, any student who commits an act of academic
dishonesty will receive a failing grade on the work in which the dishonesty occurred.
In addition, acts of academic dishonesty, irrespective of the weight of the assignment,
may result in the student receiving a failing grade in the course. Instances of
academic dishonesty will be reported to the Dean of Academic Affairs. A student
who is reported twice for academic dishonesty is subject to summary dismissal from
the University. In such a case, the Academic Council will then make a recommendation
to the President, who will make the final decision.
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STUDENTS WITH LEARNING OR OTHER DISABILITIES
John Cabot University does not discriminate on the basis of disability or handicap.
Students with approved accommodations must inform their professors at the beginning
of the term. Please see the website for the complete policy.
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SCHEDULE
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Course oultline will be handed out in class. Below are some of the topics that will be covered.
Academic Neoclassicism and the antique
Enlightenment critiques: Jacques-Louis David France and Francisco Goya in Spain
Neoclassicism in the US: Design and democratic national identity
Romanticism in France and the challenge to the hierarchy of the genres, revolutions--symbolic and actual
Romance of tradition: American ex-patriot sculptors in Italy
Romantic landscape painting in England: place and identity, nature and sensibility
American landscape painting, 1830-1860: national identity and transcendental visions
Realism and "reality": social critique in France
Realism and "reality": Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in England
The "Macchiaoli" in Italy
Modernism, modernity, and the avant-garde
Manet, the Impressionists and Modern paris
Post-Civil War America:Cosmopolitan art
The public role of art: the develpment of the art museum and its architecture
Modernism and the avant-garde; French Post-Impressionism
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