Instructions to Calendar:
"Read: H&F, SK": scan carefully the sections in your textbooks that
address the culture in that week's lectures. "Webtexts": primary texts
will be often be posted as Webtexts link.
Additional secondary, modern readings will be added occasionally, as
library reserve in Furness and, when possible, Rosengarten (which caps
how much we can reserve). "Images" and
"Resources" will send you to image sets for review, preparation, and
further research.
"Monument list": we do not cover everything in your textbooks. You will be given lists of what monuments to focus on & memorize, within thse chapters and as additions to them.
"Look": review carefully the web image sets or links suggested.
"Look at:": skim to get an impression of, in images and/or texts.
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 as lecture
subjects.
Read: G. Kubler, The Shape of Time. Look hard at pp. 1-5, 123-130, and
then riffle the rest (it is about as long as a biology textbook chapter);
Look
at H&F, SK, Barnet introductions
I Orientation: What are we doing to you here? ***NO Recitation
W 8 "Art" and "Artifact": What is in ArtH 101? And why is it different from 102? Primary evidence: How do we know what we think we know?
II Orientation: Contexts and contents of the arts and their histories
13 M Society, Culture, Religion: Themes: Archaeology and the ancient
and medieval Mediterranean: - preservation, recovery, loss; landscape &
geography. 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 materials (media) and processes of making.
15 W Talking about "Art", Then and Now: The historical status of artists
and art-knowledge; allusion and replication as documentary sources.
Modern forms of graphic description - tools and traps; original contexts
and the culture of the museum.
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, bring
to recitation with your book.
III Cultures Grown by the Great Rivers: Egypt and Mesopotamia
20 M Egypt & Sumer: Origins of architecture and visual language
22 W Egypt: Monuments for the afterlife, gods and kings
24 F The Egyptian Landscape: tombs, painted rooms and the world above ground
TAKEHOME I POSTED
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READ: H&F Chapter 2 The Earliest Civilizations at 50-58, 62-74; Ch. 3 Developments across the continents, at 93-108
Kostoff ch. 3 The Rise of the City ... W. Asia at 43 to top 46; Mesopotamia, 50-62; look over Ch. 3 Ancient Egypt, 67-89
For Friday: WEB: Read Web Texts, Story of Sinuhe (one page)
Image previews and views of the H&F and Kostoff sites and artifacts:
ex-1998 [click bottom course page], Week 3, 3-4; Week .
For Friday’s workshop, LOOK AT Week 3 nos. 36-51, Tombs of Ramose and of Nebamun sets*
Web Resources: Egypt: Saqqra II (Pittman) clickable site plan; Deir el Bahari Images; Royal Tombs at Ur, go down page to "Treasures" blurb to get to image set
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IV Empires of Land and Sea
27 M Sumer and Assyria: Visual language and urban civilization; art and the theology of power
29 W Assyria and Iran: "Historical" art and imperial architecture at Nineveh, Khorsabad, Babylon, Persepolis
OCTOBER
**1 F TAKEHOME I DUE AT JAFFE
MIDTERM ESSAYS POSTED
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READ:
H&F, Assyria & Babylon 106-112, and look back at 55-58; Iran 113-16
Kostoff ch. 3, review, and add *61-65; for Wed., Iran, ch. 6 at 132-35
WEB: LOOK AT Week 5 ex-98, esp. nos 41 on, for Assyria; for Iran, Week 6
WEB TEXT Homer, The City and Palace of Alknous; the Cylinders of Gudea intro.
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V The Bronze Aegean and the Beginning of "Greece"
4 M The Bronze Age Aegean - Minoan and Mycenean Culture. Art for house, palace and tomb in Crete, Thera, Mycenae.
6 W Patterning the World I: The Archaic Greek Image. Art for contest & memory, city-states and tyrants
8 F Patterning the World II: Archaic and Classical Buildings and Cities.
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READ:
H&F Aegean: 75-85; Archaic Greece, ch. 4 at 126-34, 141-45; "orders", 139-42 skim
Kostoff ch. 5 Bronze Age Cities at 91, 99-103; for end of week, ch. 6 at 117-30 (includes our art!), 131-32
WEB: LOOK AT Week 5-6, Aegean; for Recitation, esp. "section 3" nos. 55ff.; Archaic, Week 6 Pediments nos. 1-19, and Week 6 Archaic
READ WEB TEXTS: Homer, the City of Alknous, and the Shield of Achilles
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VII [18 M NO CLASS FALL BREAK]
20 W ***************** MIDTERM WORKSHOP: "Looking forward at Archaic Greece"******************
22 F MIDTERM
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VIII Born from Victory? From Greece Invaded to Persia Invaded:
25 M Art and story in the age of the Persian Wars and the Athenian Empire: Aegina, Delphi, Olympia, Athens; master artists and the male nude
27 W The 4th c. and the "Age of Alexander": art, emotion and personality; Alexander and the royal image
TAKEHOME II POSTED
F 29 Story As Real as it Looks: The Great Altar of Pergamon, the Nike of Samothrace, and the Dying Gauls
Look over, reading at esp.: Kostoff, ch. 7 Polis and Akropolis, esp. 149-59, 4th c. 161-71 Bassae & Didyma; Pergamon, 179-89 at 182, 185-89. Read H&F: ch. 4 125-58; 173-78
Web: look over Week 6 through Week 9-10; Web Texts, read Tyrannicides]
NOVEMBER Final Paper: Topics & Format ANNOUNCED
IX The Making of Roman Art
1 M The 4th c. and Hellenistic Image
3 W Hellenistic and Roman Art: Image, Place and Memory
4 F: Pergamon, History Art, and the Roman "Monument"
TAKEHOME II DUE IN CLASS
[Read H&F: 188-92, 203 (Laocoon)-14, 221 (Hadrianic tondi).
Kostoff: Look back at Pergamon and also Lindos, and Kos, figs. 8.14-17 = p. 177-82; 197-99, 205-6; for this and Week X skim ch. 9, Rome Caput Mundi; esp. 194-200, 205-8, 213-15, to be covered esp. Week X; 217-20, Pantheon
Web: look over in Weeks 10-11 sections the first 4, Roman House Art .. to the Roman Commemorative Monument]
X Shaping and Decorating Roman Spaces
8 M Roman Buldings, Cities and Sanctuaries; Praeneste, Pompeii, Rome
10 W Art and Space in Houses, Villas and Palaces
12 F "Program": Roman Arches and Historical Columns
[Kostoff, read ch. 9, 217-21, 245-53, 256; H&F, 188-202, 216-18, 220-21; Web, as above
XI The Worlds of Late Antiquity and "Religious" Cultures
15 M Icon and Image I: The Uses of Art in a Christian Roman Empire
17 W Icon and Image II: The Uses of Art in an Islamic Empire.
19 F Byzantine and Islamic Architecture
[Read H&F 220-21, 296-314, 323, 326-28, 341-48; Kostoff, 252-58; Web, look over Week 10-11 sections from Late Antique .. on]
XII The Medieval Transformation in Europe and the Mediterranean
22 M The Decoration of Sacred Space and the Roman Legacy: Ravenna (San
Vitale), Jerusalem (Dome of the Rock), Cordoba
24 W The "Ages" of Charlemagne & Otto: "Classical" Revival, Imitation and Invention
[H&F 296-308; 319-26; 333-38; Kostoff ch. 11 and 12 at 253-70, 274-92; Web, Week 10-11 from San Vitale to 11-12 Charlemagne]
25 R THANKSGIVING
XIII Christian Europe
29 M: "Ornament" vs. "Art", East and West, and the Painted Book
Resources link: Tres
Riches Heures
DECEMBER
1 W Basilica to Cathedral: Romanesque and Gothic Sacred Architecture
3 F Stories in Stone and Glass, Autun to Chartres
TAKEHOME III DUE IN CLASS
[Read H&F 359f., 369-98 ; Kostoff reread ch. 12, look over 295-347, esp. 323-25, 329-41; Web, Week 12-13 St. Sernin and Chartres]
XIV The Pictorial and the "Real", and Medieval Styles
6 M The Medieval Image I: "Gothic" and "International Style"
8 W The Medieval Image II, or, Where to Start the Renaissance: Giotto and the North European Master
[Read H&F395-421, Kostoff 359-56, 386-89; Web, Week 13’s two entries]