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COURSES FALL 2007

Histart 200

PROSEMINAR IN THE HISTORY OF ART (4 UNITS) Tuesdays 7:00-10:00 425 Doe, CCN 05664 Whitney Davis

This course will focus on important primary texts of aesthetics, art theory, art history, and art criticism that have shaped the development of professional art history from the late eighteenth century to the present day.  Rather than reading a long list of secondary studies (students will be individually responsible for identifying these in particular areas and presenting them to the class) or learning about movements and "isms," most of which can be studied in readily available handbooks and encyclopedias, each seminar meeting will focus on one single major text (most of these will be read in their entirety).  Texts may include Winckelmann, History of the Art of Antiquity; Kant, Critique of the Power of Judgment; Burckhardt, The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy; Riegl, Historical Grammar of the Visual Arts; Morelli, Italian Painters; Freud, A Childhood Memory of Leonardo da Vinci; Warburg, The Renewal of Pagan Antiquity (selection of essays); Panofsky, Meaning in the Visual Arts; Gombrich, Meditations on a Hobby Horse; Hauser, The Social History of Art (selections); Baxandall, Patterns of Intention; Foster (ed)., The Anti-Aesthetic; Damisch, The Origins of Perspective; Gell, Art and Agency; Mirzoeff (ed.), The Visual Culture Reader; Manovich, The Language of New Media.

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