Course books will be supplied by Pennsylvania Book Center, 34th
and Sansom, one block from central campus. Tel. 222 7600. Email
ANICK@JUNO.COM
All are required course aids, one (Barnet) is optional purchase. Two
are large, two are small and cheap.
Hugh Honour & John Fleming, The Visual Arts: A History. ed. 5, 2000.
Spiro Kostof, A History of Architecture. Settings & Rituals. ed. 2, rev. G. Castillo, 1995.
- These are our basic art and architecture narrative textbooks. All
monuments discussed in class and section will be viually documented
here, or on the
course web page.
George Kubler The Shape of Time. Remarks on the History of Things. 1962
- "The shapes of time are the prey we want to capture . . . Every
important work of art can be regarded both as a historical event
and as a hard-won
solution to some problem." A book like a diamond - small, high
density, brilliant. Through out the course, we will use Kubler's
essay to assist
thinking about how to constrct historical assessments of making and
looking.
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Sylvan Barnet A Short Guide to Writing about Art. ed. 3, 1989
- Art history majors may own already this useful introduction
to finding words for visual qualities and patterns. It is also a general
guide about how
to do research for, write and document any analytic paper (like the
one in this course).