Introduction to Art History: ART 111



ARTH 482-001 – Special Topics in Western Art History: African Art and the Parisian Avant-Garde

Cross-listed with:

ARTH 483-001 Special Topics in Non-Western Art History: African Art and the Parisian Avant-Garde

Fall 2011

Wednesdays 3:30 – 6:30 p.m.

3.0 Credit Hours

Dr. Karen Stock/ Dr. Alice Burmeister

Contact information and office hours:

Office: Stock: McL 104 / Burmeister: McL 133

Phone: Stock: 323-2659 / Burmeister: 323-2656

E-mail: Stock: stockk@winthrop.edu [e-mail is the best way to reach me; be sure to put your name and course number in e-mail subject line]

Burmeister: burmeistera@winthrop.edu

Office hours: Stock: Thursdays 3:00-5:00 p.m. [please stop by and sign up] or by appointment / Burmeister: By appt.

Web site: Stock:

Burmeister: Will be setting up a Facebook page for the class

Course description: This is a unique opportunity to learn about non-Western art and how it was appropriated by numerous artists, in multiple media, becoming a powerful cultural trend in Modern art and culture. Students will also learn how to live abroad since the class will spend one week, from December 27 to January 4, living in Paris. The class will visit numerous art collections as well as learn the metro system, experience the characters of the different Paris arrondissements, and follow in the footsteps of the artists who populated Paris in the early twentieth century.

There is no required textbook. Readings are collected from a variety of sources and PDFs will be posted on the course website.

Pre-requisites: By permission of instructor.

 

Goals:

ARTH 482/483 fulfills GNED requirements for Historical Perspective, and Humanities and the Arts.  Goal  1.1   Read, write and speak standard English is met through writing assignments & essay exam questions; Goal 1.3  Understand and practice rhetorical techniques and styles by writing and giving oral presentations is met by the power point presentation of research;  Goal 3.2 Analyze and use a variety of information gathering techniques is met through the research paper assignment; Goal 4.1 Analyze diverse world cultures, societies, languages, historical periods, and artistic expressions and Goal 6.1 Understand aesthetic values, the creative process, and the interconnectedness of the literary, visual, and performing arts throughout the history of civilization are met through reading, lecture, research and exams on course description content.

Expected Student Learning Outcomes: 

Upon completion of the course, students will have a greater understanding of how European and African cultures mingled in the first half of the twentieth century. Students will also gain firsthand experience of living in Paris.

Course Global Learning Components: This course participates in the Global Learning Initiative with its coverage of European art and culture, in addition to the course content on African and other non-Western art forms.

Student Code of Conduct As noted in the Student Conduct Code: “Responsibility for good conduct rests with students as adult individuals.” The policy on student academic misconduct is outlined in the “Student Conduct Code Academic Misconduct Policy” in the online Student Handbook ().

Students with Disabilities

Winthrop University is dedicated to providing access to education.  If you have a disability and require specific accommodations to complete this course, contact Services for Students with Disabilities at 323-3290 and make an appointment to see a professional staff member.  Once you have your official notice of accommodations from Services for Students with Disabilities, please inform me as early as possible in the semester.

Course requirements and evaluations: You must complete all assignments in order to pass the course. If you fail to complete one of the assignments then you will receive an F for the course.

• Reading summary/ Précis :(25%) You are responsible for writing a ½ to one page summary of the key points of the article for each day of discussion. These should be composed of complete sentences and paraphrase the most essential aspects of the article. The challenge is to condense complex ideas.

The précis will be graded on a pass/fail basis. Each précis is worth ten points and an average will be taken from the writings completed. You have the opportunity to rewrite the précis if you submit the rewrite with the original that did not pass.

• Writing assignment: (25%) One research paper on an artist or theme appropriate to the time period of the course. 10 – 12 pages

(There will be individual handouts with detailed instructions)

• Class participation/Paris field trip: (50%) Your ongoing participation is expected. This course should primarily be made up of discussion and your participation will help you and your classmates have a more memorable experience.

PLAGIARISM

Plagiarism is the use of someone else’s words, ideas or lines of argument without appropriate documentation. All ideas as well as quotes must be properly cited in the body of your paper either with author & page number, endnote or footnote. Students should consult and print “The Correct Use of Borrowed Information” (winthrop.edu/English/plagiarism.htm) before beginning any writing assignment. Ignorance or failure to consult this material is no excuse.

Course policies:

Attendance and conduct: Attendance is essential to completing the course successfully and will be taken on a daily basis at the beginning of class. You are responsible for all material covered in class.

Students are allowed two unexcused absences. Upon the third unexcused absence, a student’s final grade will be lowered by 5 points. Subsequent absences will result in additional deductions, at the cost 5 points off of final grade for each day of class missed. Habitual lateness, perpetual inattention, or frequent disruptions will likewise lower your grade. Excused absences include medical and personal emergences; students must present a doctor’s note. A student who misses more than five classes will fail the course. Remember to sign the attendance sheet at each class period as this will be the sole record of your presence in the class.

Late work: Papers and writing assignments are due in class on the given deadline unless you have requested and received an extension from me before the due date. Note that I do not grant extensions except under dire and documented circumstances. Late papers without an extension will receive a deduction of ten points off the final grade for each day they are late (including weekend days), starting with the end of the class on which they are due.

Sleeping or excessive Tardiness will count as an absence

Late work or Make-up exams unacceptable without written excuse from doctor

NO cell phones or text messaging. The cell phone should not be out for any reason.

If you have special needs for exams, etc., call 323-2233

Take advantage of the Writing Center for a better paper - call 323-2138 for an appt.

Provisional Schedule of lectures and readings: (subject to change)

August

24 Introduction/Course Requirements – Film: Paris The Luminous Years: Toward the Making of the Modern

31 “Introduction: Framing the Question” pp. 1 -10, in Frances Connelly, The Sleep of Reason: Primitivism in Modern European Art and Aesthetics 1725 - 1907. University Park: Penn State University, 1995.

“Introduction” pp. 1 - 22. in Jack Flam ed. Primitivism and Twentieth Century Art: A Documentary History. University of California Press, 2003.

September

7 African Art & Colonialism: World Fairs and the Colonial Agenda

Film: The Colonial Encounter: Views of Non-Western Art and Culture, The

Open University, 2003.

Pages 17-56 from Ch. 1 of Destination Culture: Tourism, Museums, and Heritage by Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, University of CA Press, 1998.

“How Museums Define Other Cultures,” Ivan Karp, American Art, Vol. 5, No.1/2 (Winter-Spring 1991), pp. 10-15. The University of Chicago Press on behalf of the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

14 Introduction to Paris; construct your ideal itinerary

21 The Influence of African Art on early 20th Century Artists

Film: African Art, BBC, 1995.

Selected chapters from Primitivism and Twentieth-Century Art: A Documentary History, eds. by Jack Flam and Miriam Deutch, University of CA Press, 2003.

Vlaminck, “Discovery of African Art” (1906)

Picasso, “Discovery of African Art” (1906-7)

Nolde, “The Artistic Expressions of Primitive Peoples” (1912)

28 “The White Peril and L'Art nègre: Picasso, Primitivism, and Anticolonialism,” Patricia Leighten, The Art Bulletin, Vol. 72, No. 4 (Dec., 1990), pp. 609-630. (also available on JSTOR)

October

5 Music in Paris – Guest speaker Prof. Jill O’Neill (readings TBA)

12 African art in France today – Film: Quai Branly, l’Autre Musée, 2006.

Selected chapters from Paris Primitive: Jacques Chirac’s Museum on the Quai Branly by Sally Price, University of Chicago Press, 2007.

19 Topic and Bibliography for final paper due

“Constructing the Modern Primitive” pp 11 - 36. in Carole Sweeney, From Fetish to Subject: Race, Modernism and Primitivism 1919- 1935. West Port: Greenwood Publishing Group, 2004.

26 “Bringing the Jazz Age to Paris” pp 25 – 49 (Ch. 1) and “Depression and War: Paris in the 1930s” (Ch. 2) from Paris Noir by Tyler Stovall, Houghton Mifflin Co., 1996.

Selected chapters from Primitivism and Twentieth-Century Art: A Documentary History, ed, Jack Flam.

November

2 Surviving Abroad: Paris Métro 101

9 “‘I’ll say it’s getting darker and darker in Paris’: Josephine Baker and La Revue Nègre” pp. 37 - 54 in From Fetish to Subject.

16 “‘A Conceptual Swindle’: Surrealism, Race, and Anticolonialism” pp. 95 - 114 in From Fetish to Subject.

23 Thanksgiving holiday

30 Review of Paris Itinerary

Final paper due at 3 p.m. Fri., 12/9.

Depart for Paris December 27 (arrive December 28) - Depart Paris January 4th

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