SYLLABUS: COURSE AH 106 INTRODUCTION TO ART HISTORY: EARLY RENAISSANCE-TODAY SPRING 2016

Course Overview

Instructor Instructor: Benjamin Paul

Email address: bpaul@rci.rutgers.edu

Phone number: 732-932-0122, ext. 21

Office hours: 01/20, 01/10, 03/2, 04/06, at 1-2pm, and upon arrangement

Course Facilitator / Teaching Assistant Instructor:

Email address:

Phone number:

Office hours:

Course Delivery This course is fully online. To access the course, please visit onlinelearning.rutgers.edu . For more information about course access or support, contact the Learning Studio (eCollege) Help Desk via email at help@ecollege.rutgers.edu or call 848-932-4702.

Course Description

The course offers an introductory overview of the history of Western and some Non-Western

art from the Renaissance to the present, including the achievements of artistic giants, spanning

from Leonardo Da Vinci to Kara Walker. It covers works in a wide array of media, such as

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painting, sculpture, architecture, prints, photography, performance, and the moving image.

Emphasizing significant stylistic movements primarily in Europe and the Americas but also

globally, this class lays the groundwork for more advanced art history courses by introducing

visual analysis and other interpretative tools of art historical research. Students will also learn

how the visual products of a culture relate to historical circumstances, societal values, and

shifting personal and collective identities. The skills developed in this course provide important

tools for navigating and interpreting media and visual representation in the twenty-first

century.

Prerequisites There are no prerequisites for this course

Important Dates The course begins on 1/20/2016 and ends on 5/13/2016, and the last day to drop the course without a “W” grade is 1/29/2016.

Course Learning Objectives By the end of this course, students should successfully be able to:

To gain awareness of the major artistic movements from within the last five hundred years of Western art history

To learn the appropriate vocabulary and critical tools for discussing and writing about works of art and architecture.

To relate specific works of art and architecture to their stylistic, historical, and social contexts.

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Course Materials

Required e-Text

Cengage MindTap for Gardner’s Art through the Ages: A Global History, Enhanced Edition, 15th Edition, 2015. MindTap is a personalized digital space that combines reading, multimedia objects, and activities to help students analyze, apply, and improve their thinking.

Your textbook and digital access to MindTap are only available through your campus bookstore, Barnes and Noble. The ISBN number is 9781337156936.

The course is accessed through LearningStudio (eCollege)

Technology Requirements

Baseline technical skills necessary for online courses

Basic computer and web-browsing skills

Navigating Learning Studio (eCollege)

Technology skills necessary for this specific course

Using MindTap

Required Equipment

Computer: current Mac (OS X) or PC (Windows 7 or newer) with high-speed internet connection

Required Software

Microsoft Word

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft PowerPoint

Assessment

Assignment Summary Below are the assignments required for this course and the value of each assignment to the course grade as a whole. Please refer to the course calendar (on Learning Studio (eCollege)) and/or the course schedule (below) for specific due dates.

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See course schedule, below, for due dates.

Assignment Overview

Participation

MindTap Activities can be found in the required e-text for this course, and access is available through your LearningStudio (eCollege) course site. In addition to the assigned weekly reading and viewing, activities include practice quizzes and image flash-cards. Students are expected to spend at least 5 hours per week on the MindTap site. This site is intended as a source of knowledge and learning and, as such, counts toward your participation grade. Scores received in MindTap do not count toward your course grade.

Log in to your LearningStudio (eCollege) course site for access to weekly discussion forums. Discussion questions are provided by the professor, and require one initial post plus two additional replies. Look for the discussion rubric in the course site to learn more about how discussions are evaluated.

Assessment

Midterm Exam

o 2 essays, each based on a comparison (a comparison need not necessarily be 1-1, but can include 3 or even 4 slides)

o [summarize format, stages, feedback, and other key issues as needed]

Final Exam

o 2 essays, each based on a comparison (a comparison need not necessarily be 1-1, but can include 3 or even 4 slides)

Category Assignment Value

Participation (55%)

MindTap Activities 13%

14 Discussions at 3% Each 42%

Assessment (45%)

Midterm Exam 20%

Final Exam 25%

Total 100%

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o [summarize format, stages, feedback, and other key issues as needed]

Grading Scale (Source: Rutgers standard undergraduate grade scale)

Grade Range

A 90 – 100

B+ 85 – 89

B 80 – 84

C+ 75 – 79

C 70 – 74

D 60 – 69

F Below 60

Student Participation Expectations Because this is an online course, your attendance is based on your online activity and participation. The following is a summary of everyone's expected participation:

Logging in: Be sure you are logging in to the course in Learning Studio (eCollege) at least 3 times each week, including weeks with holidays. (During most weeks you will probably log in many times.) If you have a situation that might cause you to miss an entire week of class, discuss it with your discussion group leader as soon as possible.

Time Commitment

To be successful in this course, you should plan to dedicate approximately 8-10 hours per week.

Scheduled Meetings: There are two live scheduled events for this course, the mid-term and final exams.

Participating in discussion groups: As participation, each week you can expect to post at least three times as part of our substantive class discussion on the week's topics.

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Discussion and Communication Guidelines The following are my expectations for how we should communicate as a class. Above all, please remember to be respectful and thoughtful.

Writing style: While there is no need to participate in your discussion group as if you were writing a research paper, you should remember to write using good grammar, spelling, and punctuation. Informality (including an occasional emoticon) is fine for non-academic topics. Please also refrain from using all CAPITAL LETTERS, as this is often interpreted as shouting.

Tone and civility: Let's maintain a supportive learning community where everyone feels safe and where people can disagree amicably. Remember that sarcasm does not always come across online. Treat your discussion group leader and fellow students with respect at all times, and in all communications.

Citing your sources: When we have academic discussions, please cite your sources to back up what you say. (For the textbook or other course materials, list at least the title and page numbers. For online sources, include a link.)

Backing up your work: Consider composing your academic posts in a word processor, where you can save your work, and then copying into the Learning Studio (eCollege) discussion.

Support and Policies

Late Work and Make-up Exams [Fill in late assignment policy]] [WHAT WILL OURS BE? – AZ]

Faculty Feedback and Response Time The following list will give you an idea of my intended availability throughout the course. (Remember that you can email help@ecollege.rutgers.edu or call 848-932-4702 if you have a technical problem with LearningStudio (eCollege)). [NOTE SURE ABOUT THIS EITHER- AZ]

E-mail

Your discussion group leader will reply to e-mails within 24 hours on weekdays. Please include the course number in the subject line.

Threaded Discussion Forums

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Your discussion group leader will visit the discussion threads regularly, and post to the forum each week.

Academic Integrity The consequences of scholastic dishonesty are very serious. Please review the Rutgers’

academic integrity policy .

Academic integrity means, among other things:

Develop and write all of your own assignments. Show in detail where the materials you use in your papers come from. Create citations

whether you are paraphrasing authors or quoting them directly. Be sure always to show source and page number within the assignment and include a bibliography in the back.

Do not fabricate information or citations in your work. Do not facilitate academic dishonesty for another student by allowing your own work to

be submitted by others.

If you are in doubt about any issue related to plagiarism or scholastic dishonesty, please discuss it with your instructor.

Other sources of information to which you can refer include:

Rutgers’ Academic Integrity website

Code of Student Conduct

Eight Cardinal Rules of Academic Integrity

Academic Support Services Rutgers has a variety of resources for academic support. For more information, check

the Academic Support website .

Rutgers has Learning Centers on each campus where any student can obtain tutoring

and other help. For information, check the Learning Center website .

Rutgers also has a Writing Center where students can obtain help with writing skills and

assignments. Learn more at the Writing Center website .

Many library resources are available online. Assistance is available through phone,

email, and chat. For information, check the Rutgers Libraries website .

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spirit. It accomplishes this through a staff of qualified clinicians and support staff, and

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delivers services at a number of locations throughout the New Brunswick-Piscataway

area. For more information, check the Rutgers Health Services website .

Accommodations for Accessibility

Requesting accommodations

Rutgers University welcomes students with disabilities into all of the University's educational programs. In order to receive consideration for reasonable accommodations, a student with a disability must contact the appropriate disability services office at the campus where you are officially enrolled, participate in an intake interview, and provide documentation. More

information can be found in the Documentation Guidelines section of the Office for Disability

Services website.

If the documentation supports your request for reasonable accommodations, your campus’s disability services office will provide you with a Letter of Accommodations. Please share this letter with your instructors and discuss the accommodations with them as early in your courses

as possible. To begin this process, please complete the Registration Form on the Office for

Disability Services website.

Go to the Student section of the Office of Disability Services website for more information.

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Course Schedule and Deadlines

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Week Dates Weekly Topics

1 Jan. 19-24

Introduction & Late Medieval and Early Renaissance Northern Europe

Video lecture

MindTap Readings and Activities

Weekly discussion forums

(please sign on to the course site for details)

2 Jan 25-31

Late Medieval Italy & The Renaissance in Quattrocento Italy

Framing videos:

-Professor Paul, 15 minute video

Reading:

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The Renaissance in Cinquecento Italy

Framing video:

-Professor Paul, 15 minute video

Reading:

Chapter 22: Intro; 22-1 High and Late Renaissance; 22-1a Leonardo ; 22-1b Raphael; 22-1c; 22-1f Venetian Painting, Giorgione, Titian, Women in the Renaissance World

Bonus Image Essay 22-18a Michelangelo's Fall of Man

Assigned Videos:

-Columbia Seminar on Raphael's School of Athens (In the Youtube Playlist of MindTap Watch Section)

-Michelangelo and the Sistine Ceiling (MindTap Watch section)

Image Flashcards:

1, 2,3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50

4 Mannerism in Cinquecento Italy & High Renaissance and

Mannerism in Northern Europe

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Week Dates Weekly Topics

Framing video:

-Professor Paul, 15 minute video

Reading:

Chapter 22: 22-2, 22-2a Painting, 22-2b Sculpture

Chapter 23: Introduction; 23-2 Grünewald, Dürer, Luther and the Reformation); 23-3 The Netherlands; Bosch; Pieter Bruegel

Assigned videos:

-Chapter 23: Dürer, The Four Apostles, 1526 (In the Youtube Playlist of MindTap Watch Section)

Image Flashcards:

-Chapter 22: 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65

-Chapter 23: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,16,23,24,25,26

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Italian Renaissance Architecture

Framing video:

-Professor Paul, 15 minutes

Readings:

-Introduction: Before 1300: Architectural Basics, sections: Byzantine, Gothic, Greece, Roman, Romanesque

-Chapter 14: 14-2c Florence Santa Maria del Fiore

-Chapter 21: 21-2c Architecture Ospedale degli Innocenti, San Lorenzo, Pazzi Chapel, Palazzo Medici, Leon Battista Alberti

-Chapter 22: 22-1d Architecture: Rome; Bramante, Saint Peter's, Michelangelo, Saint Peter's

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Week Dates Weekly Topics

-Chapter 24: 24-2a: Architecture & Sculpture: Santa Susanna, Maderno and Saint Peter's, Completing Saint Peter's

Assigned videos:

-Chapter 22: New Saint Peter's (MindTap Watch section)

Image Flashcards:

-Chapter 14: 27, 28, 29

-Chapter 21: 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46

-Chapter 22: 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32

-Chapter 24: 2, 3, 4

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The Baroque in Italy and Spain

Framing Video:

Professor Paul, 15 minutes

Reading:

-Chapter 24: Introduction; 24-2a Baldacchino, David, Ecstasy of Saint Teresa; 24-2b Painting, Annibale Carracci, Loves of the Gods, Caravaggio, Musicians, Calling of Saint Matthew; 24-3 Spain and New Spain: Francisco de Zurbaran, Diego Valazquez, Patron's Voice, Las Meninas

-Bonus Image Essay 24-18A Caravaggio, Saint Paul

Assigned Videos:

-David, David and David (MindTap Watch section)

Image Flashcards:

6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 35, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41

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Week Dates Weekly Topics

Framing Video:

Professor Paul, 15 minutes

Reading:

Chapter 25: Introduction; 25-2 Flanders; 25-2a Painting, Rubens, Consequences of War, Arrival of Marie de' Medici; 25-3 Dutch Republic; 25-3a Art and Society; 25-3c Rembrandt; 25-3e Vermeer; 25-4 France; 25-4a Louis XIV

Assigned Videos:

-Rembrandt's Night Watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0D_rc92g27w

Image Flashcards:

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 24, 25, 26, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38

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DEADLINES??? – AZ]

Midterm Exam & The Rococo

Framing videos:

- Professor Zervigon, 5 minute Video Overview - Professor Zervigon, 15 minute Video Lecture based

on Powerpoint slides of his own: The Ribald Rococo

Reading:

- Chapter 26 Introduction, sections 26-1, 26-2, 26-3, 26-4

Bonus Essay:

- Antoine Watteau, L’Indifférent (MindTap Read Section)

Assigned Video:

- Antoine Watteau, Pilgrimage to Cythera (In the Youtube Playlist of MindTap Watch Section)

Image Flashcards:

- Image Flashcards for Chapter 26 (images 3, 11-16). Can you say at least 2 things about each work?

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Week Dates Weekly Topics

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Neoclassicism, Romanticism, Realism, Photography

Framing video:

- Professor Zervigon, 20 minutes

Reading:

- Chapter 26, sections 26-5 and 26-6; Chapter 27

Bonus Essays:

- Élisabeth-Louise Vigée-Lebrun, Marie Antoinette and Her Children (MindTap Read Section)

- Anne-Louis Girodet-Trioson, Jean-Baptiste Belley (MindTap Read Section)

- Honoré Daumier, Nadar Raising Photography to the Height of Art (MindTap Read Section)

Assigned videos:

- Interview by Prof. Weigert of Prof. Zervigon on early photography (30 minutes)

- Jacques-Louis David, The Death of Marat (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hw2_hv43

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- Delacroix, Liberty Leading the People (In the Youtube Playlist of MindTap Watch Section)

- Caspar David Friedrich, Abbey among Oak Trees (In the Youtube Playlist of MindTap Watch Section)

- Manet, Olympia (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bihBbqzL96

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Image Flashcards:

- Chapter 26 (images 23-45)

- Chapter 27 (all 70 images)

- Can you say at least 1 thing about each work based on the readings?

Quizes (practice only):

- Chapter 26 (20 questions)

- Chapter 27 Quiz (20 questions)

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Week Dates Weekly Topics

10 SPRING BREAK!

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Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Fauvism, Edo Japan

Framing video:

- Professor Zervigon, 20 minutes

Reading:

- Chapter 28 and Chapter 34 (chapter introduction and section 34-3)

Bonus Essays:

- Berthe Morisot, In a Villa at the Seaside (MindTap Read Section)

- Louis Henry Sullivan, Wainwright Building (MindTap Read Section)

Assigned videos:

- Matthew Collings: Impressionism, Revenge of the Nice 1/10 (In the Youtube Playlist of MindTap

Watch Section)

- Matthew Collings: Impressionism, Revenge of the Nice 6/10 (In the Youtube Playlist of MindTap

Watch Section)

- Woodblock Prints and Japonisme (MindTap Watch section)

Image Flashcards:

- Chapter 28 (all 59 images)

- Chapter 34 (images 1, 15-17)

- Can you say at least 2 things about each work based on the reading?

Quiz, practice only:

- Chapter 28 (20 questions)

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Modernism in Europe and America

Framing video:

- Professor Zervigon, 20 minute framing video and

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Week Dates Weekly Topics

informal lecture on Cubism and African art, offering alternative view from textbook

Reading:

- Gardner, Chapter 29 and Chapter 37 (Chapter Introduction and sections 37-1 & 37-2)

Bonus Essays:

- Large ceremonial spoon or ladle, Dan, from western Côte d’Ivoire or Liberia (MindTap Read

Section)

- Paula Modersohn-Becker, Self-Portrait with Amber Necklace (MindTap Read Section)

- Marcel Duchamp, L.H.O.O.Q. (MindTap Read Section)

- Edward Weston, Nude (MindTap Read Section)

Assigned Videos:

- From Artists' Aid to Art Itself: A Brief History of Photography (MindTap Watch Section)

- Bauhaus: A History and its Legacy (click to Youtube link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYrzrqB0B8I

Image Flashcards:

- Chapter 29 (all 100 images). Can you follow the influence from one work of art to another? Where

do you see the influence of African masks and sculpture, and how was this a missreading of these

objects?

Quiz (practice only)

- Chapter 29 Quiz (20 questions)

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Modernism and Postmodernism in Europe and America

Framing Video:

- Professor Zervigon, 20 minutes

Reading:

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Week Dates Weekly Topics

- Chapter 30

Bonus Essays:

- Gerhard Richter, Townscape Paris (MindTap Read Section)

- Eva Hesse, Hang-Up (MindTap Read Section)

Assigned Videos:

- Hans Namuth - Pollock Painting (In the Youtube Playlist of MindTap Watch Section)

- I Love Warhol: Andy Warhol Interviewed on Pop Art in 1964 (click to Youtube link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jr8NE7r1szU

- Lygia Clark and her "Abandonment" in MoMA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZ4TXDlUw

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- Bicho by Lygia Clark https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Cq2OVD7d

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Image Flashcards:

- Chapter 30 (all 72 images). Can you place each of these works on a line of development after

Pollock?

Quiz (practice only)

- Chapter 30 (20 questions)

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Contemporary Art Worldwide

Framing Video:

- Professor Zervigon, 20 minutes

Reading:

- Chapter 31

Bonus Essays:

- Guerrilla Girls, The Advantages of Being a Woman Artist (MindTap Read Section)

- Robert Arneson, California Artist (MindTap Read

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Week Dates Weekly Topics

Section)

Assigned Videos:

- Identity Politics and Art (In the MindTap Watch Section)

- Inside the Chinese Contemporary Art Scene (In the Youtube Playlist of MindTap Watch Section)

- El Anatsui: Studio Process. Click to Youtube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_d3RIE195JI

Image Flashcards:

- Chapter 31 (all 68 images)

- Consider for each: What different media are employed and what is the role of representation?

Quiz (practice only):

- Chapter 31

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Course Review and Final Exam Review

[WHAT SORT OF ASSIGNMENTS OR ACITIVIES HERE, BEYOND DISCUSSION ROOM WORK??? – AZ]