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Week 1
Friday September 2
Alex Potts, et al, "What is the History of Art?" History Today 35, no. 11 (Nov. 1985), 37-47
Zerner, “Crisis in the Discipline” Art Journal (Winter 1982): 279.
James Elkins, "Art History as a Global Discipline," Is Art History Global? New York, London: Routledge, 2007, 3-23.

Week 2
MONDAY, September 5: LABOR DAY, no classes
Wednesday September 7
Earl Shorris, “On the Uses of a Liberal Education: II.A Weapon in the Hands of the Restless Poor” Harper's Magazine. New York: Sep 1997. Vol. 295, Iss. 1768; p. 50-60
Stanley Fish, “Will the Humanities Save Us?” New York Times. January 6, 2008.
Recommended: Gary DeCoker, “Review: Humanities for All” The English Journal, Vol. 91, No. 5, The World of Literature (May, 2002), pp. 92-94.

Friday September 9
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.

Week 3
Monday September 12
Dinesh D’Souza, “The Multicultural Challenge [1995];” Gill Perry “What is the Canon? [1999]”and Lucy Lippard “Mapping [1989]” in Critical Perspectives in Art History. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2002, 270-87.

Wednesday, September 14: Aesthetics and Connoisseurship
Freeland, Cynthia. “Blood and Beauty” in But Is It Art?Oxford, Oxford University, 2001, 1-29.
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, 32-3

Friday Guest: Nancy Ramage

Week 4
Monday, September 19: Biography
Eric Ferni, excerpt from “Introduction: A History of Methods”, Art History and Its Methods. London, Phaidon, 1995, 10-15.
Vasari, Giorgio. “Giotto” and excerpts from “Introduction to Part III” in Vasari’s Lives of the Artists [1550, 1568]. Betty Burroughs, ed. New York, Simon & Schuster, 1946.
Kurz, Ernst and Otto Kris, “Introduction” excerpt, Legend, Myth, and Magic in the Image of the Artists. A Historical Experiment [1934]. Art and Its Histories: A Reader. Steve Edwards, ed. New Haven, London, Yale University, 1999, 124-128 (note: esp. "Anecdotes" section, 126-8)

Wednesday, September 21: History
Winckelmann, Johann Joachim. Excerpt, The History of Ancient Art [1764], reprinted with intro in Art History and Its Methods, 68-76.
Wölfflin, Heinrich. Excerpt from Principles of Art History [1915], reprinted with intro in Art History and Its Methods, 135-51.

Friday, September 23: The Value of Art History (Connoisseurship, continued)
Peter Landesman, "A Crisis of Fakes," New York Times Magazine (March 18, 2001), 36-41, 52, 66, 77
Various Auction Catalog excerpts:
Christie's
Sotheby's
Malevich at Sotheby's

Week 5
Monday, September 26: Iconography
Panofsky, Erwin. “Reality and Symbol in Early Flemish Painting” in Early Netherlandish Painting. Cambridge, Harvard University, 1966, 131-48.
Cassidy, David. "Introduction: Iconography, Texts, and Audiences,” Critical Perspectives on Art History. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2002, 84-90.

Wednesday, September 28: Iconography, cont.
Wind, Edgar. “Primavera” in Pagan Mysteries in the Renaissance. New York, Norton, 1968, 113-127.
Zirpolo, Lilian. “Botticelli’s Primavera: a Lesson for the Bride [1991]” in Expanding Discourse, ed. Mary Garard and Norma Broude. New York: Harper Collins, 1992, 101-110.

Friday, September 30, Class canceled; see assignments

Week 6
Monday, October 3: Iconography, cont.

Wednesday, October 5: Art Criticism versus Art History
Arthur C. Danto, “The Body in Pain” The Nation; 11/27/2006, Vol. 283 Issue 18, 23-26.
Ebony, David. “Botero Abu Ghraib,“ Botero Abu Ghraib. Munich: Prestel, 2006, 5-18.

Friday, October 7: From Criticism to Art History
White, Harrison C. and Cynthia A. "Critics' emergence," "Dealer-Critic System," "To Instruct the Public" and "Critic as Publicist and Ideologue" in Canvases and Careers. Chicago, London: University of Chicago, 1965, 10, 94-98, 119-124.
Crow, Thomas. Excerpt from “Introduction” to Painters and Public Life in 18th century Paris. London, New Haven, Yale University, 1985.

Week 7
Monday, October 11: The Abu Ghraib Effect
Eisenman, Stephen. The Abu Graib Effect. London: Reaktion Books, 2007, chapters 1-2.

Wednesday, October 13: Abu Ghraib Effect, continued
Eisenman chapters, TBA.

Friday, October 15: Writing Workshop
Richard A. Lanham, "Who's Kicking Who?" from Revising Prose, 2nd ed. (New York and London, 1987), 1-9.

Week 8
Monday, October 17: Cultural Patrimony
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.

Wednesday, October 19: Handwerker session

Week 9
Monday, October 24: Psychoanalysis
Hyde Minor, Vernon. “Psychoanalysis and Art History,” from Art History’s History. Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 2000, 183-191.
Herrera, Hayden. Excerpts from Frida Kahlo: The Paintings. New York: Harpers Collins, 1991.

Wednesday, October 26: Death of the Author
Barthes, Roland. “The Death of the Author” Image, Music, Text. Trans. and ed. S.Heath. New York, Noonday Press, 1977, 142-48.

Friday, October 28: Semiotics
Barthes, Roland. Excerpt from "The Rhetoric of the Image" in The Photography Reader. Liz Wells, ed. London, New York: Routledge, 2003, pp. 114-117.

Week 10
Monday October 31: Social History of Art
Clark, T. J. "On the Social History of Art" Image of the People. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphics Society, 1973, 9-20.
Werckmeister, O.K. "From a Better History to a Better Politics," Art><History in Art Bulletin v.77 n.3 (Sept. 1995): 387-91.

Wednesday, November 2
TBA

Week 11
Monday, November 7: Feminist Art History
Nochlin, Linda. "Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?" Women, Art, and Power. New York, 1988, 145-69.

Wednesday, October 9: Feminist Art History, Images of Women
Simons, Patricia. "Women in Frames: The Gaze, the Eye, the Profile in Renaissance Portraiture [1988]" AND Carol Duncan, "Virility and Domination in Early Twenthieth Century Vanguard Painting [1973]" in Critical Perspectives in Art History. Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2002.

Week 12:
Week 12 (November 14, 16, 18): Politics of Globalizing Art and Art History
Monday, November 14: Rethinking "ART" in a global context
Freeland, Cynthia. Excerpts about art as a universal language from But Is It Art? Oxford: University Press, 2001.
Dean, Carolyn. “The Trouble with (the Term) Art.” Art Journal v. 65 no. 2 (Summer 2006) p. 24-32.

Wednesday, November 16: Guest visit: Itohan Osayimwese
Nalbantoglu, Gulsum.“Toward Postcolonial Openings: Rereading Sir Banister Fletcher's History of Architecture,” Assemblage, No. 35 (Apr., 1998), pp. 6-17.

Friday, November 18: Orientalism
Nochlin, Linda. "Imaginary Orient" Art in America 71 (May 1983).

Week 13
Monday, November 28: subjectivity and art history's origins
David, Whitney. excerpt from "Founding the Closet: Sexuality and the Creation of Art History" in Art and Its Histories: A Reader. S.Edwards, ed. London, New Haven: Yale university, 1999, pp.178-185.

Wednesday, November 30: Subjectivity

Friday, December 2: Subjectivity
see assignments page

Week 14
Monday, December 5
ReviewMethods, Discuss Annotated Bibliography

Wednesday, December 7
Heller, Scott. "What are They Doing to Art History?" and Roger Kimball, "Introduction to Tenured Radicals" in Critical Perspectives in Art History. McEnroe and Pokinski, editors. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2002, pp.288-301.

Friday, December 9
Nelson, Robert S. "The Map of Art History" The Art Bulletin vol.79, no.1 (March 1997), 28-40.