In class on Thursday, 8/26:
For Tuesday 8/31:
- Alex Potts, et al, "What is the History of Art?" History Today 35, no. 11 (Nov. 1985), 37-47
- Vernon Hyde Minor, Art History's History, 2nd ed. (Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2001), 19-27
- Henri Zerner, "Editor's Statement: The Crisis in the Discipline," Art Journal 42 (1982), 279
- excerpt from Jules David Prown, "Art History vs. the History of Art," Art Journal, Vol. 44, No. 4 (Winter 1984), 313-314
For Thursday, 9/2:
- Scott Heller, "What Are They Doing to Art History?," ARTnews 96, no. 1 (1977), 102-05
- William Innes Homer, "Visual Culture: A New Paradigm," American Art 12 (1998), 6-9
- Paul Duncum, "Visual Culture: Developments, Definitions, and Directions for Art Education," Studies in Art Education 42 (2001), 101-12
- Norman Bryson, Michael Ann Holly, and Keith Moxey, eds., Visual Culture. Images and Interpretations (Hanover, NH, 1994), xv-xviii
For Tuesday, 9/7:
- Mark Miller Graham, "The Future of Art History and the Undoing of the Survey," Art Journal 54 (1995), 30-34 [discussion leaders: Zachary Puls and Sarah Araldi]
- Robert S. Nelson, "The Map of Art History," Art Bulletin 79 (1997), 28-40 [discussion leaders: Kelsey Alderman and Stefan Haugen]
- Gill Perry, excerpt from "What is the Canon?" Critical Perspectives on Art History, John McEnroe and Deborah Pokinski, eds. (2002), 277-81 [discussion leaders: Parker Daley and Jessica Mancuso]
- short excerpt from Giorgio Vasari, The Lives of the Artists (1568)
For Thursday, 9/9:
For Tuesday, 9/14:
- Vernon Hyde Minor, Art History's History (1994), 129-41 ("Visual Supremacy: Connoisseurship, Style, Formalism") [discussion leaders: Leah Arpadi and Katy Castle]
- Excerpt from Henri Focillon, The Life of Forms in Art (1934), trans. C. B. Hogan and G. Kubler (1989), 44-63, in Eric Fernie, Art History and Its Methods (1995), 170-78 [discussion leaders: Carla McBride and Kristina O'Connor]
- Jacques Dupont and François Mathey, The New Developments in Art from Caravaggio to Vermeer, trans. S.J.C. Harrison (The Great Centuries of Painting: The Seventeenth Century) (1951), 15, 32-38
For Thursday, 9/16:
- Sotheby’s, London, 21 June 1988, Twenty Illuminated Manuscripts from the celebrated collection of William Waldorf Astor, first Viscount Astor, lot 60, 61-63
- Peter Landesman, "A Crisis of Fakes," New York Times Magazine (March 18, 2001), 36-41, 52, 66, 77
For Tuesday, 9/21:
- Linda Seidel, "On Telling Tales," Art Bulletin 76 (1994), 581-83
- Paul Barolsky, "Writing Art History," Art Bulletin 78 (1996), 398-400
- Rachel Aviv, "Don’t Be Shy," New York Times, Nov. 4, 2007
- David Carrier, "Why Art Critics Don't Matter Anymore," ArtUS no. 18 (May/June 2007), 30-32
- Kieran Long, "I Used to Rage at the Title '100,000,000 Bon Jovi Fans Can't Be Wrong'. They Can," Architects' Journal 226, no. 12 (October 4 2007), 3
- Martha Schwendener, "A Harmonic View of Nature, in a Cultural Tangle," New York Times, September 3, 2010
- Formal analysis of style and subject matter
For Thursday, 9/23:
- Robert Hughes, "A Bastion Against Cultural Obscenity," The Guardian, 3 June 2004, Arts section
- John Henry Merryman, "Comment: The Commodification of Art," Apollo 160 (July 2004), 26-27
- James Cuno, "Money, Power, and the Hstory of Art," Art Bulletin 79 (1997), 6-9
- Michael FitzGerald, "Next Year's Models," Art Bulletin 79 (1997), 10-11
- Martha Rosler, "Money, Power, Contemporary Art," Art Bulletin 79 (1997), 20-24
- Jerry Saltz, "Hammered: Are Auctions Out of Whack?" Modern Painters (July/August 2005), 26-27
For Tuesday, 9/28:
For Thursday, 9/30:
- Brendan Cassidy, "Introduction: Iconography, Texts, and Audiences," in Iconography at the Crossroads, ed. Brendan Cassidy (Princeton, 1993), 3-11
- Richard A. Lanham, "Who's Kicking Who?" from Revising Prose, 2nd ed. (New York and London, 1987), 1-9
For Tuesday, 10/5:
For Tuesday, 10/12: NONE! But we will be watching a film, and I will ask you to take notes, since we will be relying upon this film in our discussions after fall break.
For Tuesday, 10/19:
For Thursday, 10/21:
- Joan Didion, "Georgia O’Keeffe," in The White Album (1979), 126-30
- Michael Brenson, "How O’Keeffe Painted Hymns to Body and Spirit," New York Times, Nov. 8, 1987, H37 (2 pp.)
- Barbara Buhler Lynes, "Georgia O'Keeffe and Feminism," in Norma Broude and Mary D. Garrard, eds., The Expanding Discourse. Feminism and Art History (New York, 1992), 436-49
For Tuesday, 10/26:
For Thursday, 10/28:
For Thursday, 11/4:
- excerpt from Matthew Rampley, "Art History and Cultural Difference: Alfred Gell's Anthropology of Art," Art History 28 (2005), 525-29
- Gwendolyn Wright, "Building Global Modernisms," Grey Room 07 (Spring 2002), 124-34
- Michael Kimmelman, "Who Draws the Borders of Culture?," New York Times (May 4, 2010)
- Gavin Stamp, "Keeping Our Marbles" in Critical Perspectives in Art History,McEnroe and Polinski, eds. (Upper Saddle River, Prentice Hall, 2002), 14-20.
- Melina Mercouri, "1986 Speech to the Oxford Union," in Critical Perspectives in Art History, McEnroe and Polinski, eds. (Upper Saddle River, Prentice Hall, 2002), 21-28
For Tuesday, 11/9:
For Thursday, 11/11:
For Tuesday, 11/16:
- Douglass C. McGill, "Scholars Warn Vatican of Danger of Frescoes," New York Times, November 6, 1986, C. 21
- John Russell, "Conservators Endorse Sistine Restoration," New York Times, April 16, 1987, C. 17
For Thursday, 11/18:
For Tuesday, 11/30:
- peruse the Art History department's online catalog presence, including the way it structures its majors, and the kinds of courses it offers
- Peruse the College Art Association's website and the Society of Architectural Historians website (both linked to our course website)
- Patricia Cohen, "In Tough Times, the Humanities Must Justify Their Worth," New York Times, Feb. 25, 2009
- Stanley Fish, "Will the Humanities Save Us?" New York Times, January 6, 2008
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