Art History 399

Modern and Contemporary Art History

Schedule of Lectures

Schedule of Lectures and Readings

Gustave Caillebotte. Paris: Rainy Day. 1877.
This painting lives at The Art Institute of Chicago

Course Description and Requirements

List of Monuments

Quizzes

 
Midterm
The Little Paper
Final
Art History Resources On the Web
Art Historians' Guide
to the Movies
The National Gallery of Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Tate Gallery, London

SCHEDULE OF LECTURES

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
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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          	
	
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