FAH 001/REL 004 ART HISTORY TO 1700 Fall 2013

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1 FAH 001/REL 004 ART HISTORY TO 1700 Fall 2013 Professors: Ikumi Kaminishi (faculty coordinator), Daniel Abramson, Cristelle Baskins, J. Matthew Harrington, Jenifer Lyons, Christina Maranci, Andrew McClellan, Peter Probst, and Adriana Zavala. Teaching Assistants: Rachel Boesenberg (Head TA), Gina Choi, Caitlin Costello, Laura Beshears, and Johanna Miller. Lectures: Monday and Wednesday 10:30-11:20 A.M., Distler Music Hall Sections: Beginning the week of September 9th. Meet once a week with Teaching Assistants: Attendance is mandatory. The TA in charge of your section will grade all of your work for the course. You must be enrolled in a section in order to receive credit for the course. Recitation classroom: Aidekman Room 1 (seminar room) TA office: Aidekman Room 3 Course Description: Major monuments and themes of world art and architecture from ancient times to the seventeenth century, with emphasis on their religious aspects; we will study how art functioned in relation to ancient cults and civilizations, and how images and buildings expressed and served the beliefs of classical polytheism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Confucianism; how art was created and viewed; how power was invested in images and how these images affect us today. Key words/concepts: power, gender, monumentality, order, and environment This course fulfills the World Civilization requirement and is cross-listed as Religion 4. Learning Objectives: In addition to learning about major monuments and themes in world art and architecture, students will develop and practice the ability to analyze, interpret, contextualize and write on visual works of art. They will develop critical thinking skills in response to scholarly literature and be introduced to disciplinary theories and methods. Readings: 1. Marilyn Stokstad, Art History. Portable Books 1-4. Pearson/Prentice Hall, 2013 (5 th Edition). Purchased as a package from the bookstore ($126.50, New), you will receive a free subscription code for NOTE: you may opt to purchase the online subscription to the time-limited ebook (180 days) [ also comes with a subscription to ($106.67). Students should select the Stokstad, 5/E, Complete Edition if making an online purchase of the MyArtsLab subscription with ebook. 1

2 2. Christina Maranci, A Survival Guide for Art History Students. Pearson/Prentice Hall, (Bookstore) 3. Additional required and recommended readings are available as indicated on syllabus as PDF files on the FAH001 Trunk course site. Electronic Resources: 1. Course Web Page (Trunk): Course title: FAH ART HISTORY TO 1700 Information: syllabus, handouts, lecture slides, assignments, final exam schedule website with tutorials packaged with Stokstad textbook. 3. ARTIFACT, a database of study images and interactive software available at: 4. Oxford Art Online (a.k.a. Grove Art Online), encyclopedia. Access via Tuft Library electronic resource at: 5. Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History, The Metropolitan Museum of Art education online at: 6. Chicago Manual of Style Online at Tisch Electronic Resource for writing academic papers Requirements and Assignments: Please make a note of the dates and plan accordingly. 1. Attendance, participation and reading as assigned (10%) 2. Two visits with your section to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (week 4; week 9) 3. Two short assigned papers on original works of art at the Museum of Fine Arts: Each paper: 4 pages, double-spaced, and typewritten First paper due Wednesday Oct. 9, 2013, in class 10:30am (10%) Second paper due Wednesday Nov. 13, 2013, in class 10:30am (25%) 4. Mid-term examination: Monday Oct. 21, 2013 (20%) 5. Final examination: Friday, Dec. 13, :00-2:00pm (35%) Policies: Make-up exams will be given only in the case of documented illness or emergency. Extensions for papers are granted with prior consent only. Late assignments may be refused or graded down 1/3 of a letter grade (e.g. A to A-) per day late. Note on Academic Integrity Honesty, scholarly ethics and responsibility are fundamental to the integrity of the University community. Academic dishonesty threatens the pursuit of knowledge and will not be tolerated. Academic dishonesty including plagiarism will result in strict penalties including, but not limited to, a failing grade in this course. 2

3 SCHEDULE OF CLASSES AND READINGS WEEK 1 W, Sept. 4 Introduction (Kaminishi) WEEK 2 Section-meetings with TA begin this week M, Sept. 9 Lecture: Prehistoric Art: Architecture and Community (Kaminishi) Reading: Stokstad, Art History, Chapter 1. W, Sept. 11 Lecture: Ancient Near East and Egypt (Harrington) Reading: Stokstad, Art History, Chapters 2 and 3. WEEK 3 Classical Art M, Sept. 16 Lecture: Greek Art (Harrington) Reading: Stokstad, Art History, Chapter 5. W, Sept. 18 Lecture: Roman Art: What is Roman about Roman Art? (Maranci) Reading: 1) Stokstad, Art History, Chapter 6. 2) Zanker, Paul. Myth in Past and Present. The Power of Images in the Age of Augustus. Alan Shapiro, trans. University of Michigan Press: Ann Arbor, 1988, pp [PDF] WEEK 4 Sections meet at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston M, Sept. 23 Lecture: Byzantine Art: Sacred Space and the Icon (Maranci) Reading: 1) Stokstad, Art History, Chapter 8. 2) Ćurčić, Slobodan. Architecture as Icon. Architecture as Icon: Perception and Representation of Architecture in Byzantine Art, (Princeton University Art Museum, 2010), pp [PDF] W, Sept. 25 Lecture: Armenian Art: (Maranci) Reading: 1) Maranci, Christina. Building Churches in Armenia: Medieval Art at the Borders of Empire and the Edge of the Canon. Art Bulletin 88 (2006): [PDF] 3

4 WEEK 5 View of the World M, Sept. 30 Lecture: Of Karma in Ancient Indian Art (Kaminishi) Reading: 1) Stokstad, Art History, Chapter 10. 2) Karetzky, Patricia E. The First Sermon. East and West, Vol. 45, No. 1/4 (1995): [PDF] Recommended: Rowland, Benjamin. Religious Art East and West. History of Religions, Vol. 32, No. 1 (1962): [PDF] W, Oct. 2 Lecture: Buddhist Art in Confucian China (Kaminishi) Reading: Stokstad, Art History, Chapter 11. Recommended: Huntington, John. The Iconography and Iconology of the Tan Yao Caves at Yungang. Oriental Art, Vol. 84, No. 2 (1986): [PDF] WEEK 6 FIRST PAPER DUE on Wednesday, October 9 (Refer to Maranci, A Survival Guide for Art History Students) M, Oct. 7 Lecture: Time and Space: Order of Japanese Art (Kaminishi) Reading: 1) Stokstad, Art History, Chapter 12. 2) Pilgrim, Richard. Intervals ( Ma ) in Space and Time: Foundations for a Religio-Aesthetic Paradigm in Japan. History of Religions, Vol. 25, No. 3 (Feb., 1986): [PDF] W, Oct. 9 First Paper Due in class Lecture: Islamic Art and Architecture (Lyons) Reading: 1) Stokstad, Art History, Chapter 9. 2) Dodd, Erica. The Image of the Word. Berytus, Vol. 18 (1969): [PDF] 3) Hoffman, Eva. Pathways of Portability. Art History, Vol. 24, No. 1 (2001): [PDF] WEEK 7 Monday Schedule on Tuesday, October 15 M, Oct. 14 COLUMBUS DAY HOLIDAY NO CLASS Tues. Oct. 15 (Substitute for Monday Schedule) Lecture: African Art (Probst) Reading: Stokstad, Art History, Chapter 14. W, Oct. 16 Lecture: Nature and Monumentality among the Olmec and Teotihuacanos (Zavala) Reading: Stokstad, Art History, Chapter 13, pp

5 WEEK 8 MID-TERM EXAMINATION on Monday, October 21 M, Oct. 21 Midterm examination: From Prehistoric to African Art W, Oct. 23 Lecture: Ritual and Dynastic Lineage among the Maya (Zavala) Reading: Stokstad Art History, Chapter 13, pp Recommended: Jones, Christopher. The Rubber Ball Game. A Universal Mesoamerican Sport. Expedition, Vol. 27, No. 2 (1985): pp [PDF] WEEK 9 Sections meet at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston M, Oct. 28 Lecture: Early Medieval and Romanesque Art (Lyons) Reading: 1) Stokstad, Art History, Chapters 15 and 16. 2) Pulliam, Heather. Eloquent Ornament: Exegesis and Entanglement in the Corbie Psalter. in Wright and Cassidy, ed. Studies in the Illustration of the Psalter (2000), [PDF] 3) Meyvaert, Paul. The Medieval Monastic Claustrum. Gesta, Vol. 12, No. 1/2 (1973): [PDF] W, Oct. 30 Lecture: Gothic Cathedrals and Arts (Maranci) Reading: 1) Stokstad, Art History, Chapter 17. 2) Abbot Suger of Saint-Denis: The Patron of the Arts. in Gothic Art: 1140-c. 1450, Sources and Documents, Teresa G. Frisch, ed. (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1971), pp [PDF] 3) Clark, William W. The Recollection of the Past is the Promise of the Future.' Continuity and Contextuality: Saint-Denis, Merovingians, Capetians and Paris. Artistic Integration in Gothic Buildings, Virginia Chieffo Raguin, Kathryn Brush, and Peter Draper, eds. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1995), pp , [PDF] WEEK 10 Medieval Period M, Nov. 4 Lecture: Fourteenth-Century Art in Europe (Lyons) Reading: 1) Stokstad, Art History, Chapter 18. 2) Holladay, Joan, The Education of Jeanne d'evreux Personal Piety and Dynastic Salvation in her Book of Hours at the Cloisters. Art History, Vol. 17, No. 4 (Dec. 1994): [PDF] W, Nov. 6 Lecture: Dualism and Power in the Aztec Imaginary (Zavala) Reading: Stokstad, Art History, Chapter 27, pp [PDF] 5

6 WEEK 11 SECOND PAPER DUE on Wednesday M, Nov. 11 VETERAN S DAY HOLIDAY NO CLASS. W, Nov. 13 Second Paper Due in class Lecture: Art in 15 th -Century Italy (Baskins) Reading: 1) Stokstad, Art History, Chapter 20. 2) Baxandall, Michael. Conditions of Trade, in Painting and Experience in Fifteenth Century Italy [PDF] See also: Italian Renaissance Learning Resources in Collection With the National Gallery of Art [Online at: WEEK 12 The Age of Renaissance M, Nov. 18 Lecture: Northern Renaissance (Baskins) Reading: 1) Stokstad, Art History, Chapter 19. 2) Karel van Mander (1604), The Painter s Book (on Van Eyck, Roger van der Weyden, and Durer), in E. Fernie, Art History and its Methods (Phaidon, 1995). [PDF] W, Nov. 20 Lecture: High Renaissance (Baskins) Reading: 1) Stokstad, Art History, Chapter 21. 2) Giorgio Vasari. Preface to Part Three, excerpt from Lives of the Artists, 2 nd ed., [PDF] WEEK 13 Thanksgiving Week; Class held on Monday, Nov. 25 M, Nov. 25 Lecture: Renaissance Architecture s Means and Meanings ( ) (Abramson) Reading: Stokstad, Art History, Chapter 20. W, Nov. 27 THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY NO CLASS WEEK th and 17 th Centuries European Art M, Dec. 2 Lecture: Baroque Architecture Exported and Transformed ( ) (Abramson) Reading: Stokstad, Art History, Chapter 22, pp W, Dec. 4 Lecture: 17 th Century European Art (McClellan) Reading: Stokstad, Art History, Chapter 23, pp

7 WEEK 15 Class and sections end; Reading week; and Final Exam on Friday Dec. 13 M, Dec. 9 Conclusions (Kaminishi) Friday, Dec. 13 FINAL EXAMINATION: 12:00-2:00 pm Distler Music Hall (Exam will include material from Mesoamerican through the 17 th Century European Art) 7

ARH 011: History of Western Art: Ancient to Medieval

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