week
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date
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Topic
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Readings required
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Learning activities and assignment due dates
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1
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Mon,
January 13
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Introduction to course
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excerpt reading;
discussion
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Wed,
January 15
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What is Art History?
Focus: Connoisseurship
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Pooke & Newall ch 1
Preziosi 2009, p. 1-21 (Preziosi)
Gladwell, Introduction: the Statue that didn’t look right, 2005
Recommended:
Nelson, Map of Art History, 1997
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excerpt reading; discussion
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2
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Mon,
January 20
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Researching Art: past to the present
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Holly, What is research? 2008
Langdon 1999, Caravaggio books, review article
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excerpt reading;
discussion
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Wed,
January 22
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Researching Art: past to the present, cont.
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Gotlieb, Our Monstrous Double, 2008
Bomford, review of Hockney, Secret Knowledge, 2002
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excerpt reading; discussion
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3
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Mon,
January 27
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Formalism and Modernist foundations of Art History
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Pooke & Newall ch 2
Formalism, Oxford Art
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excerpt reading;
discussion
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Wed,
January 29
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Formalism and Modernist foundations of Art History, cont.
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Preziosi 2009, p. 45-53 (Baxandall, Patterns of Intentions)
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cont.
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4
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Mon, February 3
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Iconography and Iconology
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Pooke & Newall ch p. 68-70 (Iconography and Iconology)
Iconography, Oxford Art
Preziosi 2009, p. 215-19 (Intro to ch 5) and p. 220-35 (Panofsky, Iconography and Iconology)
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excerpt reading;
discussion
stages of iconographic analysis
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Wed,
February 5
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Semiotics
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Pooke & Newall ch 4
Preziosi 2008, p. 243-255 (Bal and Bryson, Semiotics and Art History)
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excerpt reading;
discussion
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5
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Mon, February 10
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Marxism and Social History of Art
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Pooke & Newall ch 3
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excerpt reading;
discussion
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Wed,
February 12
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Marxism and Social History of Art, cont.
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Clark, Painting of Modern Life, 1984, section
Pollock, Modernity and Spaces of Femininity, 1988
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excerpt reading;
discussion
DUE: Project 1 “Text and Image” on Friday via email
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6
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Mon, February 17
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Visual Culture
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Mitchell, What Do Pictures Really Want? 1996
Preziosi 2009, p. 455-67 (Smith, Visual Culture Studies, 2006)
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excerpt reading;
discussion
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Wed,
February 19
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Representation and Interpretation
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V/A (read: Alpers, Crow, Holly, Jay), Visual Culture Questionnaire, 1996
Alpers, Las Meninas, 1983
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excerpt reading;
discussion
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7
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Mon, February 24
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Midterm Exam
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Wed,
February 26
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NO CLASS
Time will be made up during evening visit to gallery openings, date TBA
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8
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Mon,
March 3
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NO CLASS
Time will be made up during evening visit to gallery openings, date TBA
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Wed,
March 5
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Authorship and Psychoanalysis
Spring Break
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Pooke & Newall ch 5
Garrard, Leonardo da Vinci, 1992
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excerpt reading; discussion
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9
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Mon,
March 10
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Authorship and Psychoanalysis, cont.
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Preziosi 2009, p. 317-320 (Intro to ch 7) and p. 321-34 (Foucault, What is an author? 1969)
Grossman and Grey, An Undisciplined Report on the Teaching of History, 2013
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excerpt reading;
discussion
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Wed,
March 12
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Gender and Identity
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Pooke & Newall ch 6
Chave, Minimalism and Biography, 2000
Meyer, Jesse Helms Theory of Art [Mapplethorpe], 2003
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excerpt reading; discussion
Assignment: Discussion: “Artist Bio and Image”
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10
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Mon,
March 17
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SPRING BREAK
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Wed,
March 19
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SPRING BREAK
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excerpt reading; discussion
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11
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Mon,
March 24
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Postmodernism
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Pooke & Newall ch 7
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excerpt reading; discussion
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Wed,
March 26
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Postmodernism, cont.
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Preziosi 2009, p. 435-42 (Benjamin, The Work of Art in the Age of Technological Reproducibility, 1939)
Fried, Art and Objecthood, 1967
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excerpt reading; discussion
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12
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Mon,
March 31
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Art History and the art museum
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Museum, Oxford Art
Haskell, Museums and Their Enemies, 1985
Weil, Social Enterprise, 1997
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excerpt reading; discussion
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Wed,
April 2
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Art History and the art exhibition
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Haskell, Botticelli and Fascism, 1999
Haskell, Intro, The Ephemeral Museum, 2000
Recommended: Beckett, A user’s guide to art-speak, 2013
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excerpt reading; discussion
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FRIDAY
April 4 – Make-up day for Mon, April 21
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Art history and the art market
Careers for the art historian
Discussion of Project 2: “Exhibition Review” assignment
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Sorkin, The Christie’s Auctioneer…on works the room, 2014.
Panero, The art market explained, 2009
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excerpt reading; discussion
DUE: Project 2 “Exhibition Review” via email
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13
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Mon,
April 7
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Post-Colonialism and Globalization
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Pooke & Newall ch 8
Preziosi 2009, p. 409- 23 (Mitchell, Orientalism and the Exhibitionary Order, 1989)
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excerpt reading; discussion
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Wed,
April 9
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Postmodern discontent?, part 1: Digital, video, and machine art
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Preziosi 2009, p. 468-87 (Fernandez, ‘Life-like’: Historicizing Process and Responsiveness in Digital Art, 2006)
Clark, Modernism, Postmodernism, and Steam, 2002
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14
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Mon,
April 14
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Postmodern discontent?, part 2: the Internet
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Mitchell, The Abu Ghraib Archive, 2008
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excerpt reading; discussion
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Wed,
April 16
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Art History today and beyond: Final Discussion
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TBA
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Students select an image and leading question for final discussion
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15
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Mon,
April 21,
Made up Friday, April 4
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HOLIDAY – NO CLASS MEETING
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st
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Wed,
April 23
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“Alternative Perspectives“ Oral Presentation
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student presentations
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Final Exam time slot
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“Alternative Perspectives“ Oral Presentation
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student presentations
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