NOTE: see syllabus for updated info about accessing readings and images

WEEK 6
Monday, February 27
Teotihuacan
Pasztory, Ester. "Natural World as Civic Metaphor at Teotihuacan," Ancient Americas. Chicago, Art Institute, 1992.

Reading Question: What does Pasztory mean when she says that Nature serves as a civic metaphor at Teotihuacan? Howdo the artworks and structures at Teotihuacan reinforce the importance of the natural world and social cohesion at Teotihuacan?
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Wednesday, February 29
Sacred Landscape in the Andes
Reinhard, Johan. "Interpreting the Nazca Lines," Ancient Americas. Chicago, Art Institute, 1992.
What does Reinhart argue was the social function (use, importance) of the Nasca Lines? How does he discuss the relationship between Nazca artworks like the ceramics and the Lines?

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Friday, March 2
Colonial: The New World as Paradise Garden
Peterson, Jeanette.  "Synthesis and Survival," in Native Artists and Patrons in Colonial Latin America. Tempe, Arizona State, 1994.

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For class also enter artstor and open the group labeled "malinalco class exercise". (To open a group, go to the "Organize" tab, click browse groups, click on our class name, and then find "malinalco class exercise.") DIRECTIONS:
- Open your assigned image from the Malinalco Monastery in one window (one of the final three images in the image group).
- Open the first source image in the other. Use the arrow to click through the source images.
- When you find one that has either similar ICONOGRAPHY (symbolic content) or a similar approach/STYLE for representing the natural world, stop. Go to the main artstor page. Double click on the image label. Click the "information" tab to learn more about this image.

Questions:
What are the sources that make this HYBRID?
What might be the significance of merging these forms and/or ideas?
How might this relate to conquest and resistance, or "Synthesis and Survival," as your reading discusses?

Bring your observations and answers to these questions to class Monday, and be prepared to share them with class.

WEEK 7
Monday, March 5
Discussion: Sacred Nature
See class assignment above. Come prepared to share your observations and ideas to class on Monday.

Wednesday, March 7
 US 19th Century: The American Landscape
Cole,  Thomas, "Essay on American Scenery [1835]," American Art, 1700-1960. Englewood Cliffs, NJ, Prentice-Hall, 1965.

Reading Questions: This is a primary text document -- in other words, it was written by Thomas Cole, one of the artists we are studying today, during the period we are studying. What does he argue should be the role of landscape painting, and what should landscape painting focus on in the United States?
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Friday, March 9
Eastern Woodland Indians
Hill, Sr. Richard W. "Patterns of Expression: Beadwork in the Life of the Iroquois," in Gifts of the Spirit. Salem, MA, Peabody Essex Museum, 1996.

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WEEK 8 -- SPRING BREAK

WEEK 9
Monday, March 19
Race and Representation
Patton, Sharon F. excerpts: "Quilts," "Genre and Biblical Painting," and "Sculpture," African-American Art.  Oxford, New York, Oxford University, 1998, pp.67-69, 98-103, 200-203.

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Wednesday, March 21
Gender
Friedland, Cynthia.  "Gender, Genius, and the Guerilla Girls," But is it art? Oxford, University Press, 2001, pp. 122-147.

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Friday, March 23
Discussion: Natural Bodies?
VISIT to the HANDWERKER GALLERY Exhibit on Contemporary African Art: "Visions"

WEEK 10
Monday, March 26
Modern Landscapes
Walton, Paul H. "The Group of Seven and Northern Development," Canadian Art Review XVII, 2 (1990): 171-208. 

Reading questions: What does Walton argue is the relationship between what the Group of Seven are doing, and the industrialization of Canada? What do the Group of Seven have in common with industrialists? What are the "pastoral myth" and the "extractionist myth?"
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Wednesday, March 28
Contemporary Earth Art: USA and Brazil
Matilsky, Barbara. Excerpts from Fragile Ecologies.  Queens, Museum of Art, 1992.

**VISUAL ANALYSIS PAPER DUE**

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Friday, March 30
Discussion and Review: Cultural conventions for representing the natural world

WEEK 11
Monday, April 2
EXAM #2