HISTORY OF ART 301SCHEDULE
History of Art Methods: Architectural History and TheoryFall 2007
Prof. David B. Brownlee
Office Hours: Wednesdays, 3-5. Please sign up in the department office to reserve a time.
S 11 (start at 4)Introduction
S 18Idealism: Vitruvius, Alberti, Le Corbusier
S 25Materialism: Laugier, Hübsch
O 2Formalism: Riegl, Wölfflin
O 9 (start at 4)Iconography: Panofsky, Durandus
O 16 (no class; Fall Break)
O 23Semiotics: Collins, Potts, Pugin, Venturi, [Preziosi, Schapiro]
O 30History of Ideas: Panofsky
N 6 (no class; DB in London; make-up to be scheduled)
Historicism: Hegel, Belting, Ruskin, Viollet-le-Duc
N 13 (start at 4)Social History: Clark, Vidler
N 20Feminism: Nochlin, Hayden
N 27The vernacular: Jackson, Upton and Vlach, Venturi
D 4Audience: Crary, Foucault
HISTORY OF ART 301READINGS
Prof. David B. BrownleeFall 2007
Readings marked with an asterisk are available for purchase at the PennsylvaniaBookCenter, 130 South 34th Street. This is NOT the Penn Bookstore on Walnut Street.. Other titles are available on the course’s Blackboard site.
Alberti, Leon Battista. On the Art of Building. tr. Joseph Rykwert. Cambridge, MA: MIT, 1988.
NA 2515 A3513 1988 [pp 2-9, 23-24, 92-95, 154-159, 301-305, 309-310]
Belting, Hans. The End of Art History? tr. Christopher S. Wood. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987. N 380 B4413 1987 [pp 3-15]
Clark, T.J. “On the Social History of Art,” in Image of the People; Gustave Courbet and the Second French Republic, 1848-1851. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1973. ND553C9 C55 1973[pp 9-20]
Collins, Peter. “The Linguistic Analogy” inChanging Ideals in Modern Architecture, 1750-1950. London: Faber and Faber, 1965. NA500 C6 [pp 173-182]
Crary, Jonathan. “Modernity and the Problem of the Observer” in Techniques of the Observer : On Vision and Modernity in the Nineteenth Century. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1990. on reserve
N7430.5 C7 [pp 1-24]
Durandus, William (akaGuillaume Durand). The Symbolism of Churches and Church Ornaments: A Translation of the First Book of the Rationale Divinorum Officiorum. intro and notes John Mason Neale and Benjamin Webb. New York: AMS, 1973 [Leeds 1843]. (VPL) BV150 D8 1973 [pp 3-38]
Foucault, Michel. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison. 2d ed. tr. Alan Sheridan. New York: Vintage Books, 1995. [Paris 1975] (VPL) HV8666 F6813 1995
Hayden, Dolores. The Grand Domestic Revolution: A History of Feminist Designs for American Homes, Neighborhoods, and Cities. Cambridge, MA: MIT, 1981. HQ 1426 H33 [chs 1, 4, 5, 6]
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich. Aesthetics: Lectures on Fine Art. 2 vols. tr. T.M. Knox. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1975. N64 H413 1975 [vol. 1, pp 1-14]
Hübsch, Heinrich et al. In What Style Should We Build? The German Debate on Architectural Style. Intr and tr. Wolfgang Herrmann. Santa Monica: GettyCenter for the History of Art and the Humanities, 1992. [Karlsruhe 1828] NA 2500 I5 1992 [pp 63-100]
Jackson, John B. Discovering the Vernacular Landscape. New Haven: Yale, 1984. GF 91 U6 J315 1984 [pp 11-55]
Laugier, Marc-Antoine. Essay on Architecture. tr. Wolfgang and Anni Herrmann. Los Angeles: Hennessey, 1977. [Paris 1753] NA 2515 L2913 [pp 1-38]
Le Corbusier. Towards a New Architecture. tr. Frederick Etchells. New York: Dover, 1986. [Paris 1923]NA 2520 .L3613 1986 [pp 11-20, 67-83, 201-223]
Nochlin, Linda. “Why Have there Been No Great Women Artists?” in Art and Sexual Politics; Women’s Liberation, Women Artists, and Art History. Thomas B. Hess and Elizabeth C. Baker, eds. New York: Macmillan, 1973. N8354 A7 [pp 1-39]
* Panofsky, Erwin. Gothic Architecture and Scholasticism. New York: World Publishing, 1971. [1957]
N440 P23 1971
______. “Iconography and Iconology” in Meaning in the Visual Arts: papers in and on Art History. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1957. 709 P197.2a [pp 26-54]
Potts, Alex. "Sign," in Critical Terms for Art History, eds. Robert Nelson and Richard Shiff. 2d ed. Chicago:University of Chicago Press, 2003. on reserve N34 .C75 2003 [pp ]
Preziosi, Donald. The Semiotics of the Built Environment: An Introduction to Architectonic Analysis. Bloomington: IndianaUniversity, 1979. NA 2500 P74 [ch 1, 2, 4, 6]
Pugin, Augustus Welby Northmore. True Principles of Pointed or Christian Architecture. reprint. London:St. Martins, 1973. [London 1841] NA 440 P9 1973. [pp 1-22, 50-76]
Riegl, Alois. Problems of Style. tr. Evelyn Kahn. Princeton: PrincetonUniversity Press, 1992. [1893] (VPL) NK1175 R513 1992 [pp 3-13, 229-240, 266-305]
Ruskin, John. The Stones of Venice. 3 vols. New York: Garland, 1979. [London 1851-1853]
NA1121V4 R7 1979 [vol. 1, chs 1-2)
Saussure, Ferdinand de. Course in General Linguistics. tr Wade Baskin. New York: McGraw Hill, 1966. [New York 1959] (VPL Rosengarten) P121 S363 1966 [pp 65-78, 111-122]
Schapiro, Meyer. “On Some Problems in the Semiotics of Visual Art: Field and Vehicle in Image-Signs,” Simiolus, vol. 6, no. 1 (1972-1973) [pp 9-19]
Upton, Dell and John Vlach, eds. Common Places: Readings in American Vernacular Architecture. Athens, GA: University of Georgia, 1986. NA 705 C58 1986 [pp 58-78, 240-260, 336-364]
Venturi, Robert et al. Learning from Las Vegas: The Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form. rev. ed. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1977. NA735.L3 V4 1977 [pp 3-18, 87-119 or 163 if possible]
Vidler, Anthony. “The Theater of Industry: Claude-Nicholas Ledoux and the Factory-Village of Chaux” in The Writing of the Walls : Architectural Theory in the Late Enlightenment. Princeton, NJ: PrincetonArchitectural Press, 1987. on reserve NA1046.5.N4 V53 1987 [pp 35-49]
Viollet-le-Duc, Eugène Emmanuel. Lectures on Architecture. Vol. 1. tr. Benjamin Bucknell. reprint. New York: Dover, 1987. NA 2520 V5613 1987 [sixth lecture]
Vitruvius. The Ten Books on Architecture. tr. Morris Morgan. reprint. New York: Dover, 1960.
PA 6156 V5 1960 [pp 3-17, 35-42, 72-75, 102-109]
Wölfflin, Heinrich. Renaissance and Baroque. tr. Katherine Simon. London: Collins, 1964.
NA 1115 W613 1964 [pp 1-88]