Introduction to Art History II (ART 103)
T-TH 9:30-10:45 and T-TH 12:30-1:45 Dana 101  
Dr.D.Sadler Office: Dana 105 ext.6245
Office Hours: MW2:15-3:00 or by appointment!  

Required text: Laurie Schneider Adams, Art Across Time, McGraw Hill, 1999
Recommended Readings: A number of well-illustrated survey books have been placed on reserve in McCain Library for your use. They are largely picture books to supplement the illustrations in your text and add to your visual repertory.

Course Objectives and Requirements: The purpose of this course is to trace the development of western art from the Early Renaissance through the Modem period. The works of architecture, sculpture and painting produced by each culture will be studied from the standpoints of their technical, formal and expressive characteristics. A special emphasis will be placed upon the varied functions of art throughout history, its importance as a barometer of cultural values and as evidence of cultural changes. Three fundamental questions underlie the study of art history:

  1. What is the reason only human beings make and respond to images?
  2. What is the reason for artistic style, and why and how does it change?
  3. Is art important? Has it an ethical/moral imperative? Do you agree with Norman Bryson who once said: "I could conceive of a world without pictures, but not a world without words"?

Attendance, both physical and mental, is required. There will be two one-hour examinations and a final examination. The format of the exams is a series of slide identifications, short answers and essays. Your completion of the reading assignments and participation in class discussions are vital to the health of the course! Your grade is calculated by averaging the three exam grades, with positive consideration for students who demonstrate an increasing grasp of the material over the course of the semester. There is also a French component to this course (103L), thus those French looking words after each week's reading assignment ... The time for this one hour course will be arranged by the students and instructors (Eberiel and Sadler) during the first week of classes.

Syllabus

Week of January 17:

Introduction to the course: Why study Art History?
Proto-Renaissance Art
Reading: Adams, Introduction and chapter 13, pp. 449-468)

 French Hour:

 Introduction

Week of January 24:

International Style?!?
Reading: Adams, 468-480

French Hour:

Marcel Proust excerpt from A la Recherche du temps perdu on Giotto's Arena Chapel

Week of January 31:

Italian Renaissance Art-
Sculpture takes the lead!
Reading: Adams, 481-531

 French Hour:

Roland Recht, "Claus Sluter et son influence," 103-112 in Automne et Renouveau 1380-1500- Park- 1988

 Week of February 7:

Painting in Flanders during the Fifteenth Century
Reading: Adams, 531-545

 French Hour:

 Franqois Avril, "Manuscrits," 276-279 in La conquet de I'Europe 1260-1380, Paris, 1987

 Week of February 14:

The High Renaissance
Reading: Adams, 546-573

French Hour:

Albert Châtelet, "Jean et Hubert van Eyck," Automne et Renouveau, Paris, 1988, 242-249

Week of February 21

The Art of Venice and Mannerism and later 16th century developments in Italy
Reading: Adams, 573-605
Exam I

 French Hour:

 Excerpt from Nicole Lévis-Godechot, "La Primavera et la Naissance de Vénus de Botticelli ou le cheminement de I'âme selon Platon," Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 121, 1993, 167-180

 Week of February 28:

Sixteenth-Century Painting in Northern Europe
Reading: Adams, 606-624

French Hour:

Daniela Gallo and Philippe Sénéchal, "Le titanesque," Histoire de L'Art 1000-2000, 1995, 166-168

Week of March 6:

Spring Break

Week of March 13:

Go for Baroque...
Reading: Adams, 625-650

French Hour:

Albert Châtelet, "Jérôme Bosch, Quentin Metsys et les debuts de la Renaissance" Automne et Renouveau, Paris, 1988, 403-406

Week of March 20:

The Baroque in the North and Spain
Reading: Adams, 650-674

French Hour:

Daniela Gallo and Philippe S6n6chal, "L'irruption du trivial dans I'art," Histoire de L'Art 1000-2000, 1995, 172-175

Week of March 27:

The Rococo and the Eighteenth Century
Reading: Adams, 675-698

French Hour:

Nicolas Poussin, "Observations sur la peinture" from Vie de Poussin written by Bellori in the 17th century Week of April 3: Neoclassicism

Week of April 3

Neoclassicism
Reading: Adams, 699-715
Exam II

French Hour:

Paul Verlaine, "Clair de lune" from Fetes galantes

Week of April 10:

Romanticism
Reading: Adams, 716-738

French Hour:

Christine Peltre, 'Delacroix: le nouveau souffle de la peinture d'histoire," Histoire de L'Art 1000-2000, 1995, 369-371

 Week of April 17:

Nineteenth-Century Realism
Reading: Adams, 739-761

French Hour:

"Camille Claudel," a film by Bruno Nuytten (1989)

Week of April 24:

Impressionism and Beyond
Reading: Adams, 762-817

French Hour:

Camille Claudel encore ... and excerpt from the letters of Vincent Van Gogh à son frère Théo, 29 avril, 1889, 25 juin, 1889 et 5 juillet 1889

Week of May 1:

The 20th Century!
Reading: Adams, 818-944
Final Exam

French Hour:

Plus ça change ... assessment of LAC component

 

Reserve List for Art 103: Introduction to Art History II

ND646A712
1983

S. Alpers, The Art of Describing: Dutch Art in the Seventeenth Centurv

 Folio N6490

H. H. Arnason, History of Modem Art

Folio N6450
.B52

 M. Brion, Art of the Romantic Era

CB361
C473

A. Chastel, The Age of Humanism

ND5465
N4.D43

French Painting 1774-1830: The Age of Revolution

ND457
.H3

G.H. Hamilton, Painting and Sculpture in Europe 1880-1940

N6915
.H37

Hartt, History of Italian Renaissance Art

Folio N6415
.B3.H4

J. Held and D. Posner, Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Art

N6415.B3
M37 1977b

J.R. Martin, Baroque

N6750 F
.N6

Novotny, Painting and Sculpture in Europe 1780-1880

ND547.5
I4.P6

P. Pool, Impressionism

ND192
.P6.R4

J. Rewald, Post-Impressionism from Van Gogh to Gauguin

Folio ND196
.C8.R6

R. Rosenblum, Cubism and Twentieth Century Art

ND616W38
1969

E. Waterhouse, Italian Baroque Painting

N6915
.W45

 J. White, Art and Architecture in Italy: 1250-1400



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