This schedule combines the list of our lectures and the readings. Please note that this
schedule is somewhat tentative; however, we will cover the material required. To best enjoy and
participate in the classes students should come to class having done the appropriate readings. Please
read along in Arnason with the lectures
Lecture Schedule
Week One:
Lecture 1: Introduction to the course; Realism, Impressionism, and Early Photography
Lecture 2: Realism, Impressionism, and Early Photography
Reading: Arnason, 1-45.
Week Two
Lecture 3: Post-Impressionism
Reading: Arnason, continue with the chapters.
Lecture 4: Origins of Modern Architecture
Week Three
Lecture 5 Art Nouveau and the Beginnings of Expressionism
Lecture 6 The Origins of Modern Sculpture
Week Four
Lecture 7 Fauvism
Lecture 8 Expressionism in Germany
Week Five
Lecture 9 The Figurative Tradition in Early Twentieth-Century Sculpture
Lecture 10 Cubism
Week Six
Lecture 11 Midterm The Midterm is explained here
Lecture 12 Futurism, Abstraction in Russia, and de Stijl
Week Seven
Lecture 13 Early Twentieth-Century Architecture
Lecture 14 From Fantasy to Dada and the New Objectivity
Week Eight
Lecture 15 The School of Paris After World War I
Lecture 16 Surrealism
Week Nine
Lecture 17 Modern Architecture Between the Wars
Lecture 18 International Abstraction Between the Wars
Week Ten
Lecture 19 American Art Before World War II
Lecture 20 Abstract Expressionism and the New American Sculpture
Week Eleven
Lecture 21 Postwar European Art
Lecture 22 Pop Art and Europe's New Realism I
Week Twelve
Lecture 23 Pop Art and Europe's New Realism II
Lecture 24 Sixties Abstraction
Week Thirteen
Lecture 25 The Second Wave of International Style Architecture
Lecture 26 The Pluralistic Seventies
Week Fourteen
Lecture 27 Postmodernism in Architecture
Lecture 28 The Retrospective Eighties
Week Fifteen
Lecture 29 Resistance and Resolution
Lecture 30 Conclusion of the Course