Schedule & Reading Assignments
Introduction to Art History
Rebecca Brown
Spring 2003

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Date Topic Stokstad reading Website
Jan 21 Introduction
Jan 23 Art on the Rocks
Introduction to Pictures & Spaces
Chapter 1

required
(Rock Art)

Stonehenge
available

Jan 28 Monumentality
The Ancient Near East
Map quiz I ∞ Download HERE
Chapter 2 required
Jan 30 Deborah Hutton, Skidmore College
"Interpreting the Veil in the Works of Shahzia Sikander and Shirin Neshat"
4 pm, Library 321
Jan 30 Class cancelled
attend lecture & work on discussion paper!
Feb 4 Monumentality
Shang Dynasty China
discussion paper due
Ch 10 to p. 407
Wu Hung reading
(ereserves)
required
Feb 6 Greece: Ideals & Empire Ch 5 (selections) Geometric Greece
Classical Greece
available
Feb 11 Rome & Persia: Empire Take Two Ch 6 (except pp. 273-84)
review pp. 85-89
required
(Persia)
Feb 13 An Afternoon of Asian Art
Rebecca Brown & De-nin Lee present recent research
4 pm, Library 321
Feb 13 City & Religious Space
Early Christian
Ch 7 to p. 308
Feb 18 Cancelled: Snow Day
Feb 20 No class
College Art Association Conference
Feb 25 City & Religious Space
Buddhist & Hindu India
practice midterm question in class
Chapter 9
Feb 27 No class
Snow Day
Mar 4 MIDTERM
Download Handout HERE.
e-mail me with any questions!
Mar 6 City & Religious Space
Islamic
Chapter 8 required
(Cordoba)
Mar 11 Library Day
Meet in LIB 321!
David Carrier Reading
Mar 13 Depicting the World
Space in 15th c. Europe
And Chinese Landscape Painting
Chapter 17
Chapters 10 & 21
Mar 18 & 20 Spring Break: No class
Mar 25

Chinese Landscape Painting (carried over)
and
Art of Empire
Papal

Ch 18 to p. 721
pp. 751-761
required
(Papal)
March 27 No class
Association of Asian Studies conference

Go to WGSX colloquium & work on discussion day reading!
Apr 1 Advising Day: No class
Apr 3 Art of Empire
Mughal India
Discussion day (no paper due)
Map Quiz II
Chapter 20
Brand article
(ereserves)
required
(Mughals)
Apr 7 Intro Paragraph Due by 5 pm via e-mail!
Apr 8 Art of Empire
Spain | Aztec | Inca
Ch 23 to p. 883 required
(Spain | Aztec | Inca)
Apr 10 Painting the Individual
Caravaggio, Gentileschi, and Velázquez

Ch 19 to p. 769
pp. 776-781

Apr 15 The French Self & The French Other
discussion paper due
Nochlin article
(ereserves)
and pp. 955-66
required
(Orientalism)
Apr 17

Sculpting & Weaving the Individual
Different visions from West Africa

& Japan in the 19th Century
Prints & Popular Culture

Chapters 13, 25, Ch 22 required
(Africa)
available
(Japanese Prints)
Apr 22

What you see & What you get
Photography, Impressionism & the 19th century

Ch 27, selections required
(Japonisme)
Apr 27 Toward the Modern Ch 28, selections available
(Pop Art)
Apr 29 The Postmodern and
Art on the Margins
Diaspora in America
Discussion day
bell hooks article
(ereserves)
Chapter 29, selections
required
May 1 Final Exam during class!!
Note: Change in date!
May 8 Final Paper Due by Midnight via e-mail.
Note: change in date!

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