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Instructor: Kathleen Nicholson
Office: 237D Lawrence
Office Hours: Mon. 1-2; Weds. 1:30-3
Phone: 6-2241
GTF: Kimberly Lemon
Office: M280 Lawrence
Course Requirements:
•Short essay quiz Tuesday, January 26
•Mid-term Thursday, February 11
•occasional, very brief slide quizzes
***Cumulative slide quiz Tuesday, March 9***
•Final exam, Tuesday, March 16, 3:15 PM
•5-10 page paper, optional (though highly recommended) for non-majors; required for Art History majors
***Due Thursday, March 4***
Class attendance is required since 1) the lectures and the course text treat the material differently, and 2) you will see in class many more works of art than are illustrated in the text. You will be responsible for the range of issues covered in the course, whether in class or in the text.
Grading: the short essay quiz (1/23) and the mid-term (2/11) will count for 40% of your grade 10% and 30% respectively; the final for 50%; the slide quizzes (at least three short ones, one cumulative) for 10%.
You have the option of doing a 5-10 page paper, which would count 30% and reduce the weight given to the short essay/mid-term and final exam to 30% each. Instructions for the paper will be passed out shortly. Students choosing the paper option must turn in a paper topic and initial bibliography on or before Tuesday, February 2. No exceptions to this deadline. The paper is due March 4. Late papers are not accepted. Please familiarize yourself with University guidelines about plagiarism.
Required Texts:
Stephen Eisenman, 19th Century Art: A Critical History
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
Recommended:
Janis Tomlinson, Readings in Nineteenth-Century Art
a 19th-century novel of your choice. For example--
Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
Dickens, Hard Times or Great Expectations
Flaubert, Madame Bovary (1857)
Tolstoy, War and Peace (1866)
Stendhal, The Red and the Black (1830)
Zola, Germinal
Image Reserve:
http://libweb.uoregon.edu/aaa/vrc/ir/irx.html
•If you have a documented disability and anticipate needing accommodations in this course, please make arrangements to meet with me as soon as possible. Please request that the Counselor for Students with Diabilities send a letter verifying your disability. Her name is Hilary Gerdes, and she can be reached at x6-3211, TTY X6-1083
Course Outline
* indicates a book on reserve in the AAA Library
WEEK ONE
1/5 Tu Introduction/The French Revolution and what it overthrew
1/7 Th Jacques Louis David
Assignment: Eisenman, 19th Century Art, pp. 7-31.
Recommended: *T. Crow. Painters and Public Life in Paris, pp. 211-241.
WEEK TWO
1/12 Tu David and the aftermath of the Revolution/ Impact of Napoleon
Assignment: Eisenman, 19th Century Art, pp. 31-50.
*Tomlinson, Readings, pp. 1-24
Recommended: *Boime, Art in the Age of Bonapartism, pp.3-33.
1/14 Th Goya
Assignment: Eisenman, 19th Century Art, pp.78-97
*Tomlinson, Readings, pp.25-33.
***Start reading Frankenstein at your own pace, as a novel
Recommended: *F. Licht, Goya, either pp. 104-127, or, pp.128-158 (or, even better, both!)
WEEK THREE
1/19 Tu Romanticism in England: Blake / Landscape Painting
Assignment: Eisenman, 19th Century Art, pp.98-143.
*Eitner, Neoclassicism and Romanticism, I, pp. 120-25
Continue with/finish Frankenstein
William Blake archive: http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/blake/main.html
1/21 Th Romanticism: Landscape painting
Assignment: *Tomlinson, Readings, pp. 36-51.
Recommended: *Boime, Art in an Age of Bonapartism, pp. 511-546.
WEEK FOUR
1/26-28 TuTh Romanticism in France
Assignment: Eisenman, 19th Century Art, pp. 51-77.
Recommended: *Tomlinson, Readings, pp.52-71.
*Tuesday* SHORT ESSAY QUIZ
WEEK FIVE
2/2 Tu 1830's: The Beginnings of "Middle Class" Art/Photography
Assignment: Eisenman, 19th Century Art, pp. 188-205.
*Nochlin, Women, Art and Power, pp. 57-85.
EITHER: *Beaumont Newhall, History of Photography, pp. 13-83
OR: *Naomi Rosenblum, World History of Photography, pp. 14-94.
PAPER TOPICS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY DUE for optional paper/required majors paper
2/4 Th Photography/Realism and the Impact of the 1848 Revolution/Courbet
Assignment: Eisenman, 19th Century Art, pp. 206-224.
*Nochlin, Women, Art and Power, pp.1-32.
*Tomlinson, Readings, pp. 72-107.
Recommended: *Courbet Reconsidered, pp. 1-29; 31-53.
WEEK SIX
2/9 Tu MIDTERM REVIEW
2/11 Th MIDTERM
WEEK SEVEN
2/16 Tu Manet
Assignment: Eisenman, 19th Century Art, pp. 225-244.
*Tomlinson, Readings, pp. 109-146
*Baudelaire, The Painter of Modern Life, pp. 1-40
Recommended: *T.J. Clark, The Painting of Modern Life, pp. 78-146.
2/18 Th Manet/Degas
Assignment: *Herbert, Impressionism, pp. 59-91.
*Broude, "Degas' Misogyny," Feminism and Art History, pp. 247-269.
Recommended: *Herbert, Impressionism, pp. 1-57.
WEEK EIGHT
2/23 Tu Impressionism's origins/Early Monet
Assignment: Eisenman, 19th Century Art, pp. 224-54.
*Herbert, Impressionism, pp.265-302.
2/25 Th Monet
Assignment: *Herbert, Impressionism, pp.195-263.
*Tomlinson, Readings, pp. 147-163.
WEEK NINE
3/2 Tu Monet/Impressionist Women
Assignment: *Herbert, Impressionism pp. 255-273.
*Tomlinson, Readings, pp. 230-245.
Recommended: *G. Pollock, "Modernity and the Spaces of Femininity," The Expanding Discourse, p. 242-267.
3/4 Th Post Impressionism: Seurat/ Van Gogh/Gauguin
Assignment: Eisenman, 19th Century Art, pp. 247-87; 304-336.
*Tomlinson, Readings, pp.181-229
Recommended: *Nochlin, The Politics of Vision, pp. 170-93.
PAPERS DUE--NO EXCEPTIONS
WEEK TEN
3/9 Tu Post Impressionism continued
***CUMULATIVE SLIDE QUIZ***
3/11 Th Cezanne
Assignment: Eisenman, 19th Century Art, pp. 337-350.
Recommended: *Shiff, Cezanne and the End of Impressionism, pp. 162-219.
FINAL: Tuesday, March 16, 3:15 PM
Some interesting and useful WEB sites for viewing works of 19th-century art:
The Louvre:
http://mistral.culture.fr/louvre/louvrea.htm
National Gallery, Washington,DC:
http://www.nga.gov/
National Gallery, London:
http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco:
http://www.famsf.org/
William Blake Archive
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/blake/main.html
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