Reading Assignment

Introduction to Art History, Gardner’s

Formal vs. Contextual Analysis, Sylvan Barnett (handout in class)

“Mesoamerican Art,” Stokstad, all

The Maya Ball Game

“Children and the Continuity of Life,” “Initiation,” “The Spirit World,” Stokstad, 913-919

“Leadership,” “Death and Ancestors,” Stokstad, 919-924

"African Art:  The First Cubists," Strickland, 22-23;

pre-dynastic and Old Kingdom Egyptian art, Gardner’s, 65 (stop at “Sculpture”)

New Kingdom Egyptian art, Gardner’s, 70/82

Sumerian Art, Gardner’s, 31-40

Everybody else…Gardner’s, 40-52.

The Art of the Prehistoric Aegean, Gardner’s 85-102

The Early and High Classical Periods, Gardner’s 126-142 (Stop at “Painting”); Late Classical Period, Gardner’s, 145-149 (Stop at “Alexander the Great”)

“Vitruvius, on Doric and Corinthian orders” and “Classical Architecture,” Adams, 108-119

Hellenistic sculpture, Gardner’s 156- (start at Pergamon) 164

Etruscan art, Gardner’s 233 – 244

“The Power of Stone,” Boorstin

Roman Painting, Gardner’s 209 – 257-265 (Stop at “Early Empire)

“Roman Sculpture, Janson

China, Stokstad Art a Brief History, 76 – 82 and 208 - 212

Excerpts from Gardners

The Age of Edo, Smithsonian, December 1998

Hokusai, Old Man Mad about Drawing, Krull

“Understanding Hinduism and Hindu Art,” Vidya Dehejia

“The Image of the Buddha,” H&F, 200-204

“Christian Symbols and the Life of Jesus”

“Early Christian Architecture”

Exodus 20, 1-5 and Pope Gregory letter to Bishop Serenus, 600 CE    and Byzantine APAP

The Art of Byzantium, Gardner’s, 325-339 (Stop at “Painting”)

The Art of the Islamic World, 357—367 (Stop at “Later Islamic Art”)

Islam cont., Gardner’s, 367-378

Early Medieval Art, Stokstad, 441-455 (Stop at “Books”)

Early Medieval Art cont., 455-469

Europe after the Fall of Rome, Gardner’s, 421-430

Carolingian and Ottonian, Gardner’s, 430-444

Romanesque Art, Stokstad, 471-491

Romanesque Art, Stokstad, 492-511

Saint Chapelle and Louis IX

The Movement Away from Medievalism, Gardner’s, 521-531 (Stop at “The Republic of Siena”)

"Jan van Eyck's Annunciation" pamphlet from National Gallery, Wash DC, summer 94.

Deposition by Rogier van der Weyden

Roman Afterlives, on Brunelleschi, Boorstin

“Early Renaissance Architecture,” Adams

The High Renaissance, Gardner’s, 614-624 (Stop at “A Grand Biblical Drama”)

"Leonardo da Vinci," Krull, 11-15; "Seeking Mona Lisa," Smithsonian, 5/99.

“Virtue and Beauty, Renaissance Image of Ideal Woman,” Smithsonian

The High Renaissance, Gardner’s, 624-633 (Stop at “The Papacy of Pope Paul III)

“Michelangelo Buonarotti,” Krull, 16-19

The High Renaissance, Gardner’s, 633-643

The High Renaissance, Gardner’s, 643-648 (Stop at “Mannerism”)

Mannerism, Gardner’s, 648-655 (Stop at “Later 16^th Venetian…”)

Venetian Art and Architecture, 655-660

The Age of Reformation, Gardner’s, 663-672 (Stop at “Commenting on History and Politics”)

The Age of Reformation, Gardner’s, 672-679 (Stop at “The Netherlands”)

The Age of Reformation, Gardner’s, 679-686

Baroque Art, Gardner’s, 689-700

Adams: "The Baroque Style in Western Europe," 333; "Bernini," "Caravaggio," "Gentileschi," 342-349;

Caravaggio, The Artist as Outlaw, Lambert

Spain, Gardner’s 708-713; Velazquez, A Humane Equilibrium, Wolf

Rubens, Smithsonian, Oct93; Flanders, Gardner’s, 713-717

Who Was Rembrandt, Kenner, Art and Antiques, 9-91

Mirror Images, camera oscura, Smithsonian

Time Stands Still in the Harmonious World of Vermeer, Smithsonian

France & England, Gardner’s, 732-743

France, Stokstad, 739-746

England, Stokstad, 778-785

Late Baroque Architecture, Gardner’s, 743-746

The Rococo, Feldman, Thinking about art

“Fragonard and Greuze: Sex Objects and Virtuous Mothers,” H&F 578-9; England: Painting, Janson 608-611

Goya and His Women

From Saints to Sunsets, The Late Great Works of Delacroix, Smithsonian

From Neoclassicism to Realism, Gardner’s, 824-836

Romanticism to Realism, H&F

Neoclassical and Romantic Architecture, Janson

The American Land Inspired Cole’s Prescient Visions, Smithsonian, May 1994

Landscape Painting, Gardner’s, 839-843

The Beginnings of Photography, Gardner’s, 846-850, Realism, Gardner’s, 855-859

Realism, 860-866, The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Gardner’s,
867-869

Impressionism, Gardner’s 869-879

Cezanne's Endless Quest, Dudar, Smithsonian, April, 1996 and "Modernism's Patriarch," Robert Hughes, Time, 6/10/96.

Symbolism Gardner’s, 886-890; The Development of Modernist Art, Gardner’s, 961-968

Fauves, In Turn of the Century Paris, A Brash New Art, Dudar, H, Smithsonian, October 90

Kandinsky, The Effect of Color, 1912

Picasso Takes on the Masters, Smithsonian, October 1997; Picasso in Krull

Cubism in Europe, Gardner’s, 1032-1042

Purism and Futurism, Gardner’s, 977-980

Dada, Gardner’s, 980-984; Bauhaus, Gardner’s 1007-1012 

“Art Deco” and "The International Style," Gardner’s, 1028-1033and "Modernism and Postmodernism in Architecture," Gardner’s, 1138-46 (stop at Postmodernism)

A Great Architect, Frank Lloyd Wright, Smithsonian, February 1994

Gehry, The Miracle in Bilbao, NY Times magazine "Renzo Piano: The Incredible Lightness of Being," Richard Covington, Smithsonian, June 1999.

The Two Faces of Dali, Hughes, Time, 3-13-00 and Dada, Surrealism, Fantasy, Adams 1

Magritte, Surreal Hero for a Nation, NY Times and Magritte, Master of the Double Take, Smithsonian, September, 1992

Diary of a Mad Artist, Frida Kahlo, Vanity Fair, Sept95

Jackson Pollack, Modernism's Shooting Star, Smithsonian, November 1998

Postwar European Art, Stokstad, 1085-1095

1960s—Pop, Op, and Minimalism, Adams

Art for the Public, Gardner’s, 1050-1056

Steiglitz in Focus, Smithsonian, June 2002

Earthworks and Site-Specific Art, Stokstad,1121-1123

Installation, Video and Digital Art, Stokstad, 1147-1152

North America, Gardner’s, 401-406

Contemporary Native American Artists, Stokstad, 856-857