Professor Christine Poggi Office Hours: Rm. 211 Jaffe Bldg.

Fall 1999 Mon. 2:30-4:30

Mon.-Wed. 12:00-12:50 pm (and selected Fridays: Sept. 10; Nov. 19)

(An additional hour will be arranged for recitation.)

Recitations: 201 W 2 B7 Meyerson Hall

202 W 3 B7 Meyerson Hall

203 R 10:30 201 Jaffe Bldg.

204 F 11 104 Jaffe Bldg.

Teaching Fellows: Alison Bechtel and Juliet Bellow

The course is affiliated with WATU (Writing Across the University).

The slides shown in this class will be available for additional viewing through the History of Art Homepage a week or so after they are shown in class. The Web address is: Http://www.library.upenn.edu/finearts/slide/286.html The best monitors to use are those in the Fine Arts Library. Please consider these slides only one source of relevant images, along with those in your textbooks and reading packet, and the works of art on view in the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Class Texts: Available at The Penn Book Center, 130 South Street

C. Harrison, F. Frascina, and G. Perry, Primitivism, Cubism, Abstraction: The Early Twentieth Century

B. Fer, D. Batchelor, and P. Wood, Realism, Rationalism, Surrealism: Art Between the Wars

Herschel B. Chipp, ed., Theories of Modern Art

Reading Packet, available at Campus Copy, 3907 Walnut St.

Wed. Sept. 8 Introduction to the Course

Fri. Sept. 10 The Aesthetics of Spontaneity: From Post-Impressionism to Matisse

Harrison: 46-62

Chipp: 130-137

Mon. Sept. 13 Matisse and Fauvism

James Herbert, "Painters and Tourists in the Classical Landscape," ch. 3 from Fauve Painting: The Making of Cultural Politics, 82-111 (reading packet)

Recommended: Roger Benjamin, "Matisse in Morocco: A Colonizing Esthetic?" Art in America (November 1990), 156--165, 211, 213.

Wed. Sept. 15 German-Expressionism: Die Brücke (The Bridge)

Harrison: 34-45, 62-82

Chipp: Emil Nolde, excerpt from Jahre der Kämpfe, 146-151

Mon. Sept. 20 Wassily Kandinsky and Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider)

Chipp: W. Kandinsky, 152-170; Franz Marc, 178-182

Wed. Sept. 22 Rodin and Brancusi

PMA recit. Leo Steinberg, "Rodin," in Other Criteria, 322-403 (reading packet)

Chipp: Brancusi, "Aphorisms," 364-65

Mon. Sept. 27 Picasso's Blue and Rose Periods, and the "Demoiselles d'Avignon"

Leo Steinberg, "The Philosophical Brothel," October, no. 44 (Spring 1988): 7-74 (reading packet)

Recommended: David Lomas, "A Canon of Deformity: Les Demoiselles d’Avignon and Physical Anthropology," Art History, 16, no. 3 (September 1993), 424-446 (reading packet)

Wed. Sept. 29 Picasso and Braque: Inventing Cubism 1908-1911

Leo Steinberg, "What about Cubism?" from Other Criteria, 154- 173, notes on pp. 410-411 (reading packet)

Mon. Oct. 4 "Synthetic" Cubism 1912-14: Collage and Constructed Sculpture

Clement Greenberg, "Collage" from Francis Frascina, ed., Modern Art and Modernism, 105-108 (reading packet)

Robert Rosenblum, "Picasso and the Typography of Cubism," in R. Penrose and J. Golding eds., Picasso in Retrospect, 49-75 (reading packet)

Wed. Oct. 6 Juan Gris and "Synthetic" Cubism continued

PMA recit. Recommended: Harrison: 87-180 (see illustrations for the entire section on Cubism)

Mon. Oct. 11 Futurism: Painting--Giacomo Balla, Umberto Boccioni, Carlo Carrà

Gino Severini

Short Paper

Due in Class Chipp: Intro. by J. Taylor, and Futurist Manifestos, 281-298 and 304-308

Wed. Oct. 13 Futurism continued: Sculpture, the Response to WWI

Chipp: Boccioni, "Technical Manifesto of Futurist Sculpture," (1912), 298-304

Rosalind Krauss: "Analytic Space: Futurism and Constructivism," from Passages in Modern Sculpture, 39-52 (reading packet)

Mon. Oct. 18 Fall Break

Wed. Oct. 20 Puteaux Cubism: Albert Gleizes, Jean Metzinger, Fernand Léger

Chipp: Gleizes and Metzinger, excerpts from "Cubism," 207-216

Mon. Oct. 25 Puteaux Cubism: Sonia and Robert Delaunay, Early Marcel Duchamp

Chipp: R. Delaunay letters, 317-320

Wed. Oct. 27 Russian Avant-Garde Art: Rayonism and Neo-Primitivism--Natalia Goncharova, Mikhail Larionov, and Kasimir Malevich

PMA Recit. Harrison: 228-249

Mon. Nov. 1 Russian Avant-Garde Art: Kasimir Malevich and Vladimir Tatlin

Krauss: excerpt from Passages in Modern Sculpture, 51-67 (reading packet)

Wed. Nov. 3 Towards a Revolutionary Soviet Art in the Soviet Union

Fer: 96-138

Walter Benjamin, excerpts from "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction," in Francis Frascina ed., Modern Art and Modernism, 217-220 (reading packet)

Mon. Nov. 8 Midterm

Wed. Nov. 10 Piet Mondrian and De Stijl

PMA recit. Chipp: Mondrian, "Plastic Art and Pure Plastic Art," 349-362 and "Statement," 362-364

Harrison: 250-262

Mon. Nov. 15 Purism: Picasso, Le Corbusier, Amadee Ozenfant, Fernand Léger

Fer: 2-30, 61-76

Le Corbusier and Ozenfant, "Purism," (1920) in Robert L. Herbert, ed., Modern Artists on Art, 58-73 (reading packet)

Kenneth Silver: "Purism: Straightening Up after the Great War," Artforum 15, no. 7 (March 1977), 56-63 (reading packet)

Wed. Nov. 17 The Bauhaus

Fer: 139-148

Friday Nov. 19 Duchamp and Dada in New York and Paris

Chipp: Marcel Duchamp, "Painting… at the service of the mind," 392-395

Fer: 30-39

Molly Nesbit: "Ready-Made Originals: The Duchamp Model," October, no. 37 (Summer 1986): 53-64 (reading packet)

Recommended: Thierry de Duve, "The Readymade and the Tube of Paint," Artforum 24, no. 9 (May 1986): 110-121

Mon. Nov. 22 Dada: Chance and the Found Object

8-10 Page Paper Chipp: Max Ernst, "What is the mechanism of collage," and "On P Due in Class Frottage," 427-431

Wed. Nov. 24 NO CLASS (extra lecture on Fri. Nov. 19) Happy Thanksgiving!

Mon. Nov. 29 Berlin Dada

Fer: 40-47,

Chipp: Hannah Hoech, "Dada Photo Montage," 396

Maud Lavin: "Heartfield in Context," Art in America 73, no. 2 (February 1985), 84-93 (reading packet)

Wed. Dec. 1 Introduction to Surrealism: The Circle of Andre Breton

Fer: 47-61, 171-203

Chipp: Statements by De Chirico, Breton, and Dali, 397-429

Mon. Dec. 6 Surrealism Continued: The Circle of Georges Bataille

Fer: 204-247

Recommended: Rosalind Krauss, "No More Play," in The Originality of the Avant-Garde and Other Modernist Myths, 42-85

Wed. Dec. 8 The Approach of War: Picasso's "Guernica," Hitler's "Degenerate Art Exhibition" and the Flight to America

Fer: 262 for illustrations

Chipp: Adolf Hitler, excerpts from the speech inaugurating the "Great Exhibition of German Art" (1937), 474-483

Chipp: Pablo Picasso, Statement and Conversation on "Guernica," 487-489

An optional review session will be scheduled during reading week.

Assignments:

Mon. Oct. 11 3-5 page comparative visual analysis of two works of art in the Philadelphia Museum of Art or the Rodin Museum 15%

Mon. Nov. 8 Midterm 20%

Mon. Nov. 22 8-10 page paper due (Suggested topics will be handed out. You may also write on a topic of your own choice with the approval of your teaching fellow.) 25%

Final Exam: 25%

Class participation: 15% Attendance at recitation is required. Students will be asked to introduce one article to their recitation and to turn this in in written form on the day of their presentation (1-2 pages). (Discussion at recitation is an extremely important part of the class. Therefore students who do not attend recitation regularly will not receive a passing grade.)