Calendar ArtH 101
European Art & Civilization before 1400
Fall 1998 (Prof. A. Kuttner, akuttner@sas.upenn.edu)
web: http://www.arth.upenn.edu/fall98/
M and W, 1-2, Meyerson Basement B-1
**F: NOTE: TWO FRIDAYS there will be LECTURES. Keep track!
Week III 25 Sept., IV 2 Oct., to swap for 2 Jewish Holy
Days, Monday 21 Sept. New Year, and M 28 Sept. Yom Kippur,
Readings: abbreviations, see Course Books
Additional focus readings will be posted by 2 weeks in advance.
H&F = Honour & Fleming
(F) N5300 H68 1995
Persp. = Perspectives in Western Art
(F) N 5303 W74 1987
Atlas = Anchor Atlas of World History I
K = Kubler
(F & R res. desk, as pamphlet)
Barnet:
(F reference) N 7476 B37 1989
Web texts: stored as texts link
Library Reserve: (F)=Fisher Fine Arts, aka Furness; (R)= Van Pelt,
Rosengarten Reserve
Honour & Fleming:
Wren, Persp.: (F res. desk)
Kubler:
"Read: H&F": scan carefully the sections in your
textbook that address the culture in that week's lectures. Occasional
secondary readings will be used for takehomes & recitation focus, ,
and web texts will supply primary texts not in Persp.
"Look at:": skim to get an impression of; the Atlas references
are to orient you in the geographic and historical contexts that come up
in the lectures that week; the Perspectives references give primary texts
used as examples in lecture & recitation
Takehomes: see Course Components. These will be guided looking
& describing assignments mostly focussed on something physical to see
in Philadelphia, that take a contained time chunk of 2-5 hours,
to fit into your schedule as you choose in the 5-7 days between posting
and turning in. Each will result in 1-2 pp. of unrevised brief written
responses to a series of specific questions. They will give you practice
in the analytic essys on exams, and in the sorts of analysis you will do
on the images & monuments on which you choose to write a final paper.
WEEK I-II
SEPTEMBER
The first 3 lectures, Weeks I & II, orient you in the aims,
subjects and methods of 101; most images preview the substance lectures
of weeks III-XIV, but they will not be on the exam "memory list"
unless repeated.
Read: G. Kubler, The Shape of Time. Look hard at pp. 1-5,
123-130, and then riffle the rest - yes, I know it's 130 pages,
but they are very small - about 1 chapter of a biology textbook.
Look at: H&F introduction; your Atlas' opening sections.
I Orientation: What are we doing to you here?
9 W Pre-modern and Pre-"Western", "Art" and "Artifact": What is in ArtH 101? (And why is it different from 102?)
NO Recitation
II Orientation: Contexts and contents of patronage and art forms
14 M Primary Evidence: How do we know what we think we know?
Themes: Archaeology and the ancient and medieval Mediterranean:
- preservation, recovery, loss; landscape & geography;
the uses of texts; modern forms of graphic & verbal description
- tools and traps; original contexts and the culture of the museum.
16 W Society, Culture, Religion
A basic introduction to the physical, economic and social contexts
and belief systems which shaped the major categories of ancient
and medieval art (ritual, ceremonial, votive, funerary, commemorative,
triumphal, symposiastic), the status of artists, and the purpose
of artifacts.
Look at: See above.
FIRST Recitation:
To do: Pick a statement in Kubler that you like, dislike, or can't understand.
Xerox that page, scrawl your opinion at the top, make 15 copies,
and bring it to section meeting with you.
III Cultures Grown by the Great Rivers: Egypt and Mesopotamia
[21 M NO CLASS JEWISH NEW YEAR]
23 W Egypt: monuments for gods and
kings
**25 F Sumer and Assyria: Visual language and urban civilization;
art and the theology of power
TAKEHOME I POSTED
Read: H&F ch. 2; web texts [excerpts from the
Story of Sinuhe, and the Gudea Temple Trilogy]; The Gudea Temple
Trilogy (F & R res., desk pamphlet)
Look at: Atlas 22-31; Persp. 3-9, 15-17, 21-7, 34, 36-8
Recitation 2
IV Empires of Land and Sea
[28 M NO CLASS YOM KIPPUR]
30 W The Bronze Age Aegean - Minoan and Mycenean Culture. Art for
house, palace and tomb in Crete, Thera, Mycenae.
TAKEHOME I HANDED IN AT CLASS
OCTOBER
**2 F Assyria and Iran: "Historical" art and imperial architecture
at Nineveh, Khorsabad, Babylon, Persepolis
Read: H&F ch. 3, to p. 84
Look at: Atlas 33-37, 47-57; Persp. 2-5, 13-19, 42-4, 55-56;
web texts
Recitation 3:
V "Greece" Begins: City-States, Tyrants and Colonies
5 M Patterning the World I: The Archaic Greek Image. Art for contest
& memory.
7 W Patterning the World II: Archaic and Classical Architecture.
Canon, "order" and the rules of art & ornament.
TAKE HOME II POSTED
Read: H&F ch. 4 except 108-129.
Look at: Atlas 55-61, 73; Persp. 62-5, 68, 76-7, 85-6; web texts
Recitation 4
VI The "Classical" Paradigm
12 M Born from Victory? Art in the age of the Persian Wars
and the Athenian Empire: Aegina, Delphi, Olympia, Athens
TAKEHOME II HANDED IN AT CLASS
14 W Master Artists and Master Styles: Imitation and Invention in the Age
of Aristotle
Read: H&F ch. 4 again up to 125 (= adding 108-25).
Look at: Atlas 58-9, 61-63; Persp. 79-80, 101, 111,
103; web texts
Recitation 5
VII
[19 M NO CLASS FALL BREAK]
21 W ***************** MIDTERM ******************
VIII Classical & Hellenistic Culture and National Identity
26M The Making of the "Classical". Athens' Acropolis and the emergence of the master artist.
28W As Real as It Looks: Pergamon & Samothrace. Alexander's export of Hellenism; Greece in Asia; the rhetoric of styles; inventing history with visual culture; the idea of the museum.
Read: H&F ch. 4 108-25, ch. 5 to 156, and 171.
Section: The "Great Altar" at Pergamon. [handouts in class Monday]
NOVEMBER
Final Paper: Topics & Format
IX The Making of Roman Art
2 M Making & Taking Culture in the Roman Republic - Romanitas and
Philhellenism at Rome, Praeneste, Delos, Sperlonga.
4 W The Roman Monument: Image, Place and Memory from Augustus'
Ara Pacis to the Arch of Constantine
TAKEHOME III POSTED
Read: H&F ch. 5 again at 154-64, 171-88, and
ch. 7 at 273-74
Look at: Atlas 73-105 at 75, 86-87, 105; 85, 97-103;
Persp. 109-10, 115-16, 123-24, 130-31, 134-37; web texts
Recitation 8
X Shaping and Decorating Roman Spaces
9 M Art and the Roman House and Palace, from the Villa of the Mysteries
to the Great Palace at Constantinople
TAKE HOME III HANDED IN AT CLASS
11 W The Architectures of the Roman City
Read: H&F ch. 5 again at 154-70, 183-86, and ch. 7 at
277-83, 290
Look at: Persp. 126-29, 134-37; web texts
Recitation 9
XI The Worlds of Late Antiquity
16 M Icon and Image I: The Uses of Art in a Christian Roman Empire,
from Constantine to Heraclius
18 W Icon and Image II: The Uses of Art in an Islamic Empire.
Read: H&F ch. 7 to 282, and 291-96; ch. 8 to 316, and
327-29
Look at: Atlas 103, 107, 115-17, 139-41; 135-37; Persp. 151, 155-57,
162-63, 168, 172, 184-5, 178-79; web texts
Recitation 10
XII The Medieval World
23 M Byzantine and Islamic Architecture
25 W Court and Monastery Arts in the Ages of Charlemagne & Otto: Revival,
Imitation and Invention
Read: H&F ch. 7 at 281-89, ch. 8 at 332-38; ch.
7 at 296-308, ch. 8 at 317-26
Look at: Atlas 121-27, 135-39, 156-57, 175, 209; Persp.
175-76, 197-98, 207, 237-39; web texts
Recitation 11
XIII Sacred Space
30 M Basilica to Cathedral: Romanesque and Gothic Sacred Architecture
DECEMBER
2 W The Medieval Image I: Stories in Stone and Glass,
Autun to Chartres
TAKEHOME IV POSTED
Read: H&F ch. 7 again at 304-5, ch. 9 at 335-68
Look at: Atlas 127, 139-41, 145, 148-49, 156-57, 181-85; Persp.
211-12, 214-16, 234-35, 241-2, 249-50; web texts
Recitation 12
XIV Painting and the Pictorial
7 M The Medieval Image II: The Case of the Painted Book
9 W The Medieval Image III/ Where to Start the Renaissance:
Giotto, the Flemish Masters and the International Style
TAKEHOME IV HANDED IN AT CLASS
LAST DAY OF CLASS
Read: H&F ch. 9 again at 367-87, ch. 10 at 396-402, 415,
419
Look at: Atlas 212-17; Persp. 251-53, 266-69, 270-71; web
texts
Recitation 13
Reading Period: Dec. 12 Sat.- Dec. 14 M PAPER DUE
Final Exam Period: Dec. 15 Tues. - Dec. 22 Tues.