read
1. Take a long and careful look at this syllabus
2. Downloadable PDF list of assignments (you can review the assignments if you click on "Requirements" tab at the top left corner of this website, which I've also linked here)
3. General guidelines for respectful online engagement (PDF linked here)watch
- Course structure PPT/Loom video (Vimeo link. All course videos can be found in Vimeo and are password protected)
- eClass 101 PPT with embedded video links (Vimeo link)
- ZOOM 101 introductory video with embedded video links (Vimeo link)
- Meet me! Lisa Claypool's video self-introduction (Vimeo link)
objectives To have a clear understanding of the structure of the course and the course requirements.
optional [recommended] synchronous session
Peggy Sue Ewanyshyn, the Arts Librarian, will lead a seminar on accessing online resources that will be useful to you. This session will include the opportunity to ask questions, so please attend if you can.read
De-nin Lee and Deborah Hutton, "Introduction," The History of Art: A Global View (New York: Thames & Hudson, forthcoming Spring 2021), 16-20 "You are Invited" and "Art Matters" (eClass)watch
1. Overview of Lee and Hutton PPT video pt 1 (Vimeo link)
2. Introduction to your professors! Meet the HADVC faculty and learn about their courses (Vimeo link)study images
Maya Lin (b. 1959, United States), What is Missing? 2009-present
Zaha Hadid Architects (1959 - 2016 Iraq and the UK), Heydar Aliyev Center, Baku, Azerbaijan, 2007–12. (check out image gallery at bottom of page)
Yinka Shonibare MBE (b. 1962, Nigeria and the UK), Cake Man, 2013
do
1. take the ungraded quiz #1 in eCLASS as practice
objectives To introduce you to the conceptual arc of the course and familiarize you with the online resources available to you and needed for success in this course.
read
De-nin Lee and Deborah Hutton, "Introduction," The History of Art: A Global View (New York: Thames & Hudson, forthcoming Spring 2021), 20-25 "Getting Started" (eClass)
watch
1. Overview of Lee and Hutton PPT video pt 2 (with study questions at end)
key terms
formal analysis (visual analysis)
medium/mediums
dimension and scale
form
style
subject matter
composition
motif
formal elements: colour, line weight (contour lines), shape, light/shadow,
texture, pattern, and (when relevant) time and soundstudy images
Vincent van Gogh (1853 - 1890, Holland), Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, September 1889
Zhang Hongtu (b. 1943, United States), Ongoing shanshui series After 1982. Please explore the series!
Shitao (17th century, China), Mountain Retreat at Dusk, 1701.;
From the Art History: A Global View assignment:
Käthe Kollwitz, Woman with Dead Child, 1903
Unknown Sawos artist, ceremonial malu, Papua New Guinea, 19th century.
Bodhisattva Tara, Sri Lanka, 8th century CE, Anuradhapura Period.
Courtyard of Al-Attarine Madrasa, Fez, Morocco, 14th century.
objectives this week Learn how to do visual analysis, including comparative analysis, and how to contextualize a thing in its world.
assignments this week quiz # 2 AND email Academic Honesty Contract to Lisa Claypool (due January 20)
optional but recommended TA-led discussion sessions on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, 45 minutes per session ++ but please keep in mind that we expect you to show up to five sessions and/or Friday afternoon virtual field trips this term in order to receive full participation credit
read
De-nin Lee and Deborah Hutton, "Introduction," The History of Art: A Global View (New York: Thames & Hudson, forthcoming Spring 2021), 25-31 "Give it a try " and "Our shared human inheritance" (eClass)watch
- Dr. Walter Davis’ video Bathers, Ballet Dancers, and Sumo Wrestlers
- Overview of Lee and Hutton PPT video pt 3 (with study questions at the end)
study images
Edgar Degas (1834 - 1917, France), The Morning Bath, ca. 1886
Claude Monet (1840 - 1926, France), Water lilies and Japanese Bridge, 1899
Japanese ukiyo-e "floating world" woodblock prints
Hiroshige (1797 - 1858, Japan), One Hundred Famous Views of Edo, 1856-59
From the Art History: A Global View assignment:
Umrao Singh Sher-Gil (1870 - 1954, India), Experiment with double exposure, III: self-portrait, Paris, France, c.1934
Anni Albers (1899 - 1984, German-American), Pasture, 1958.
Crucifixion, c. 1150. Stained glass, 27 3/4 × 9 ⅞ feet. St. Peter’s Cathedral, Poitiers, France.
Pablo Picasso (1881 -1973, Spain), Guernica, 1937.
Parinirvana of the Buddha, c. 1086. Ink and colors on silk, 105 × 106 in. Kongōbuji.
Xu Bing (b. 1955, China), Art for the People, 1999.
reminder
ACADEMIC HONESTY CONTRACT due today
FIRST FIELD TRIP! Meet Lisa on Friday at 5 pm for a visit to the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, France, where we will practice visual analysis. I will send a zoom invite to everyone. Please join me if you like. This trip is entirely optional and just for fun. However, it counts towards your participation grade.
read
Dana Arnold, “What is Art History” in Art History: A Very Short Introduction: 1-28. (eClass)
watch1. Overview of Arnold PPT video (with study questions at end)
2. Dr. Betsy Boone's video Realism and Abstraction as Aesthetic Choices in Mesoamerica
3. https://smarthistory.org/coatlicue-2/ (7 mins)keywords
history
canon
the period eye
realism
abstraction
study images
Aztec sculpture, Coatlicue and Eagle Warrior/Fighter, ca. 1521
objectives this week To introduce students to art history and to learn how to do an iconographic analysis.
do quiz #3
read
Marjorie Munsterburg, “Iconographic Analysis" in Writing About Art (2009). Available as an online open-access publication: https://writingaboutart.org/pages/iconographicanalysis.html
Tate art terms: iconography
watch
- Dr. Walter Davis' video Iconographic Analysis and Fudō Myōō, Immovable King of Higher Knowledge (7 min.)
- Overview of Munsterburg PPT video (with study questions at the end)
The Sistine Chapel (7 min.)
keywords
icon
iconography
study images
Indigenous iconographies
SECOND FIELD TRIP! Meet Lisa on Friday at 5 pm for a field trip to study indigenous iconography at the National Museum of Canada. Entirely optional and just for fun. Please remember that the field trips as well as the discussion sessions count towards your participation credit.
read
John Berger, Ways of Seeing (London, England: Penguin, 2008 [1972]), 7-34. (eClass)
watch
- Overview of Berger PPT video (with study questions at end)
- Dr. Lianne McTavish's video Early Modern Visual Culture: A Case Study of Las Meñinas
keywords
subject position
perspective (linear, vanishing point, floating, aerial)
slow seeing
interpretationstudy images
Raphael, Sposalizio (Marriage of the Virgin), 1504
bird's-eye view
Xu Daoning, Fisherman’s Evening Song, 1049
images in the Berger for your reference:
Leonardo da Vinci, The Virgin of the Rocks. This painting is part of the group: Panels from the S. Francesco Altarpiece, Milan. Collection National Gallery, London.
René Magritte, "The Key to Dreams" sometimes translated as "The Interpretation of Dreams" (La clef des songes). Brussels, 1935. Oil on canvas.Frans Hals, The Regents of the Old Men's Almshouse. 1664. Oil on canvas. Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, The Netherlands.
Frans Hals, The Regentesses of the Old Men's Almshouse. 1664. Oil on canvas. Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, The Netherlands.
objectives this week Consider seeing as culturally contextual; understand the relationship between representational norms and gender expectations
do: quiz # 4
read
1. John Berger, Ways of Seeing, p 36-64 (and/or video)
2. Emma Allwood, "Why We Still Need John Berger’s Ways of Seeing” Dazed (January 3, 2017)
watch1. Dr. Natalie Loveless's video Feminist Art
2. Overview of Berger & Allwood PPT video (with study questions at end)
keywords
gender
representationstudy images
Judy Chicago, Dinner Party, 1974-79
Mary Kelly, Post-Partum Document, 1975
https://artistparentindex.com/about
Manet, Olympia. 1863. Oil on canvas. Museé de Orsay.
cf. Yasumasa Morimura 森村泰昌, Portrait (Futago or "The Twin"). 1988. Chromogenic print; 210.19 cm x 299.72 cm. SFMoMA, San Francisco.
THIRD FIELD TRIP! Meet Lisa at 5 pm on Friday for a visit to the National Palace Museum in Taipei, Taiwan, to expand practices of seeing. Totally optional and just for fun. But please remember that these trips as well as the discussion sessions count towards your participation credit.
read
John Berger, Ways of Seeing, p 66-112 (and/or video)
watch
Dr. Betsy Boone's video Spain, France, and the Napoleonic War in the Art of Francisco Goya
Video (10 mins) :https://smarthistory.org/goya-third-of-may-1808
keywords
social history
printmakingstudy images
Francisco Goya, The Third of May, 1808, 1814
Francisco Goya, Los Caprichos, 1855
Francisco Goya, The Disasters of War, 1811-12
Jacques Louis David, Napoleon Crossing the Alps at Saint-Bernard, 1800
objectives this week To introduce students to the social history of art
assignments this week quiz # 5 and first take home assignment: visual analysis of any of the works studied in class by the end of week 7 (due by Monday, February 15)
read
Peter Burke, "The Social History of Art," The Historical Journal 33, no. 4 (1990): 989-992 (eClass & eJournal)
watch
- Dr. Joan Greer's video Sowing Seeds of Revolution in 19th-century Arts: Reflections on the Social History of Art
- PPT video on Burke (with study questions at end)
keywords
modernism
avant-gardestudy images:
Vincent Van Gogh, The Sower, 1888
Jean-François Millet, The Sower, 1850
Paul Gauguin, Breton Woman and Goose by the Water, 1888
Édouard Manet, Déjeuner sur l'herbe (Luncheon on the Grass), 1863
Gustave Caillebotte, Rue de Paris, temps de pluie (Paris Street; Rainy Day), 1877.
Camille Pissarro, Les toits rouges, coin de village, effet d'hiver (The Red Roofs, a Corner of a Village, Winter Effect), 1877.
FOURTH FIELD TRIP! Meet Lisa for a field trip on Friday at 5 pm to the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, Holland to discuss Van Gogh in his historical context. Totally optional, just for fun. Please remember that this field trip as well as the discussion sessions count towards your participation grade.
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WEEK SIX \ \ READING WEEK
WEEK SEVEN \ \ ART HISTORY 4.0
Monday, February 22
read
Sylvan Barnet, A Short Guide to Writing About Art, 9th ed. (Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Pearson, 2008), 47-55 & 135-141 (eClass)watch
- Overview of Barnet PPT video (with study questions at end)
study images
The Harlem Renaissance
objectives this week To review some basics of writing about art and to explore arts writing
assignments this week MIDTERM EXAM in eCLASS due by Monday, March 1
Wednesday, February 25
Optional synchronous session with Lisa Claypool begins at 12:30. We will discuss arts writing and the midterm exam
read
Stephanie Snyder, "Johan Thurfjell," Artforum International (Summer 2013)
watch
- Overview of experimental art writing PPT video (with study questions at end)
study images
Johan Thurfjell, Noon, 2013 (watch short 2-minute film linked to this work in artist's website)
NO FIELD TRIP THIS WEEK. Please devote your time to preparing for the midterm instead.
WEEK EIGHT \ \ DESIGN 1.0
Monday, March 1
read
Louise Schouwenberg, "A Cabinet," in BEYOND the NEW on the Agency of THINGS, eds. Schouwenberg and Hella Jongerius (London: Koenig Books, 2018), 24-37. (eClass PDF)
watch
- Dr. Lisa Claypool's video On the Agency of Things
- Gary Hustwit, Objectified: Manufactured Objects and Their Designers
- Overview of Schouwenberg PPT video (with study questions at end)
keywords
design
agency
experiencestudy images from Schouwenberg:
Bruno Munari, One comes home tired from working all day and finds an uncomfortable chair (October 1944) Domus no. 202 print
Michelangelo Pistoletto, Mobili capovolti/Upside-down furniture.1976. Installation at Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire, UK, 2016.
Helmut Smits, Without cabinet. 2003. books, TV, lamp, speakers, record player, video cassettes, CDs, LPs, cassette tapes, binders, boxes. L 140 cm W 47 cm H 150 cm.
Kostas Lambridis. Elemental Cabinet, 2017.
cf. Baccio Cappelli. Badminton Cabinet. 1720- 32.
Wunderkammer Ferrante Imperato, Naples, ca. 1550. Print.
Hella Jongerius, Ideal House, at IMM Fair, Cologne, 2005.
objectives this week To introduce students to design as a way of thinking and feeling, and to sustainable design principles
assignments this week quiz # 6
Wednesday, March 3
read
Buckminster Fuller, excerpt from The Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth (1969), reprinted in The design history reader, 223-225. (eClass)
watch
- Dr. Joan Greer's video An Introduction to Sustainable Design
- Overview of Fuller PPT video (with study questions at end)
keywords
sustainable design
ecology
nature
space
ecocriticism
study images
FIFTH FIELD TRIP. Meet Lisa on Friday at 5 pm to visit the London Design Museum and look at design together. Totally optional and just for fun. This field trip as well as the discussion sessions count towards your participation grade.
WEEK NINE \ \ DESIGN 2.0
Monday, March 8
read
1. 1. Paul A. Rodgers and Craig Bremner, “A is for Anthropocene: An A–Z of Design Ecology,” LA+ Interdisciplinary Journal of Landscape Architecture 9 (2019): 110–115. (eClass) choose 5-10 of the design terms, including ANTHROPOCENE, CRISES, DEATH, SUSTAINABILITY (eClass)
2. Ezio Manzini, Design, When Everybody Designs: An Introduction to Design for Social Innovation, tr. Rachel Coad (Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2015), Introduction, pp 1-6. (eBook)watch
- Overview of Manzini PPT video (with study questions at end)
- Edward Burtynsky, Manufactured Landscapes (2006) watch first 9 minutes
- Cao Fei, Whose Utopia? (2006) 6-minute excerpt, filmed in a Siemens factory in south China
keywords
see the LA+ essay
built environment
natural environment
study images
Edward Burtynsky, China Project, Anthropocene
Olafur Eliason, Ice Watch, 2018
Wang Jin, Ice: Central Plains, 1996 (images only)objectives this week To introduce students to ecological thinking and the interconnection between ecological and social justice art and design
assignments this week quiz #7
Wednesday, March 10
read
Jason F. McLennan, The Philosophy of Sustainable Design: The Future of Architecture (Kansas City: EcoTone, 2004), pp. xix-xxiii, and pp. 1-8. (eClass)
watch
- Dr. Lisa Claypool’s video Designolopy in an Urban World
- Overview of McLennan PPT video (with study questions at end)
keywords
designoloper/designolopy
sustainable architecture
metabolic architecturestudy images
Red Ribbon Park, Turenscape in Qinhuangdao, China
Xu Tiantian, Bamboo Theatre in Hengkeng Village, Zhejiang Province, China
Matsuzaki Wright Architects, The CK Choi Building in Vancouver (UBC campus)
ZGF Architects, Rocky Mountain Institute Headquarters in ColoradoSIXTH FIELD TRIP. Meet Lisa on Friday at 5 pm to visit an ecosensistive site and look at design together. Totally optional and just for fun. This field trip as well as the discussion sessions count towards your participation grade.
WEEK TEN \ \ DESIGN 3.0
Monday, March 15
read
Design in the Age of Pandemics
Pandemic Production: When Design is a matter of life or death
How do you build a city for a pandemic?
Designers “deeply worried” as pandemic slows move away from single-use plasticswatch
1. Video of Lisa Claypool in conversation with designer Gillian Harvey
keywords
study images
Wellcome History of Medical Masks in pictures
Viktor and Rolf’s fashion design
Angleo Reno, Proposal to convert san siro stadium into a memorial site for coronavirus victims
objectives this week To introduce students to design thinking in an age of COVID
assignments this week quiz # 8
Wednesday, March 17
read
Paola Antonelli, Jamer Hunt, "Design and Violence," in Design & Violence, eds. Paola Antonelli and Jamer Hunt (New York: MoMA, 2015), 9-middle of page 15.
watch
- Overview of Antonelli PPT video (with study questions at end)
keywords
violence
study images
Design + Violence interactive exhibition MoMA, New York
Leanie van der Vyer, "Scary Beautiful" in Design & Violence (online)Sputniko, "Menstruation Machine (Sputniko!)" in Design & Violence (online)
Michael Burton and Michiko Nitta, "Republic of Salivation" in Design & Violence (online)
Rael San Fratello, "Borderwall as Architecture (Ronald Rael and Virginia San Fratello)," in Design & Violence (online)
Hyperakt & Ekene Ijeoma, "The Refugee Project (Hyperakt & Ekene Ijeoma)" in Design & Violence (online)
NO FIELD TRIP THIS WEEK. Please spend more time at the MoMA website. And remember: t he exploratory is due on Friday, March 19 by 5 pm
WEEK ELEVEN \ \ VISUAL CULTURE 1.0
Monday, March 22
read
Rosemarie Buikema, “The Arena of Imaginings: Sarah Baartmann and the Ethics of Representation” in Doing Gender in Media, Art and Culture (London: Routledge, 2009), 70-85. (library online resource)
watch
- Overview of Buikema PPT video (with study questions at end)
keywords
intertextuality
signifier
signified
sign
visual culture
culture
study images
objectives this week To introduce students to key concepts in visual culture, including semiotic analysis.
assignments this week quiz # 9
Wednesday, March 24
read
1. Ian F. Haney-López, “The Social Construction of Race,” in Literary Theory: An Anthology2nd ed., eds. Julie Rivkin and Michael Ryan (Oxford: Blackwell, 2004), 964-974. (eClass)
watch
- Overview of Haney-López PPT video (with study questions at end)
keywords
race
study images
SEVENTH FIELD TRIP.
WEEK TWELVE \ \ VISUAL CULTURE 2.0
Monday, March 29
read
Carol Duncan, “The Art Museum as Ritual,” in Civilizing Rituals: Inside Public Art Museums (London: Routledge, 1995), 7-20 (UA Library e-book).
watch
- Dr. Lianne McTavish's video Museums: An Introduction
- Overview of Duncan PPT video (with study questions at end)Flas
keywords
museum
collecting
to curatestudy images
John Russell Pope, National Gallery of Art West Building, Washington, D.C.
British Museum, London
The Parthenon, Athens
IM Pei, The Louvre pyramid, Paris
IM Pei, The National Gallery of Art East Building, Washington, D.C.
Jones & Jones, The National Museum of the American Indian, Washington, DC
objectives this week
assignments this week: quiz # 10
Wednesday, March 31
watch
- The Couple in the Cage
keywords
critical museum studies
decolonization
colonialism
post-colonialismstudy images
National Museum of the American Indian, Washington, D.C.
James Luna, Artifact Piece
Brian Jungen, Furniture Sculpture, Vancouver Art Gallery (2006), AGO , 2019
Rebecca Belmore Performances: www.rebeccabelmore.com
WEEK THIRTEEN \ \ VISUAL CULTURE 3.0
Monday April 5, Easter Monday vacation
Wednesday April 7
read
Nicholas Mirzoeff, "Introduction" to How to see the world: An introduction to images, from self-portraits to selfies, maps to movies, and more (New York: Basic Books, 2016), 1-27 (eClass)
watch
Aaron Koblin’s collaboration with Google Earth and Arcade Fire, The Wilderness Downtown
keywords
study images
Clement Valla, Postcards from Google Earth
Michael Wolf, The Architecture of Density, Hong Kong. Photographs.
Sze Tsung Leong, from History Images
objectives this week To end the course with a discussion of the political potential of art, design, and visual culture in an age of intersecting crises.
assignments this week quiz # 11
WEEK FOURTEEN \ \ VISUAL CULTURE 4.0
Monday April 12
read
watch
The Yes Men Fix the World
The Yes Men Are Revolting
keywords
identity correction
study images
Wednesday April 14
read
Anne D’Alleva, “Navigating Art History Examinations” in Look! The Fundamentals of Art History, 107-132 (eClass)
objectives this week: To prepare students to take the final exam
assignments this week: take home exam (due by Thursday April 22) + grading of participation to date.
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