Draft - Fall 2008

TEXTS

Required:         Linda Hults, The Print in the Western World.

Griffiths, Antony, Prints and Printmaking.

Recommended: A. Hyatt Mayor, Prints and People, a Social History of Printed Pictures.
                         

WRITTEN ASSIGNMENTS

Final Project

Your final project will have two parts. One will involve writing about a print (or group of related prints) of your choosing in the Spencer Museum of Art; the other can be anything of your making that enlarges our understanding of the print (or group of related prints) that you have chosen for the first part. The second part could be more research and writing about the print or group of prints, in which case your project will reseble a traditional term paper. It might be a print that you will make yourself, or a short movie, or a webpage, a dramatic reenactment or some fictional writing -- whatever you like, so long as it is an earnest attempt to more fully understand the work(s) you have articulated for the first part of the assignment.

Due last day of class. We may have time for a session to share one another's findings.

Short writing excercize -- to be announced.

EXAMS

There will be a midterm and a final exam. Both exams will include about ten "short answer" questions. I will ask the class to keep track of good questions and we will compile a list from which I will draw your exam questions.

READING ASSIGNMENTS

See weekly assignments below.

GENERAL REQUIREMENTS

You are required to attend and participate in class and to complete all of the reading and writing assignments.

GRADE

Your grade will be determined as follows:

50 % Exams (25 % each)
40 % Paper
10% Attendance, participation & writing excercize

Unexplained absenteeism will lower your grade after the fourth missed class.

Students with special needs should contact Professor Goddard so that we can make accomodations.

SCHEDULE OF CLASSES & READING ASSIGNMENTS

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WEEK 1 Hults I: 1-43

Aug. 21 Printing Techniques / Roles & Functions of the Print. (Mayor: 11-32, 69-73, 79-93, 388-393, 544-549).

WEEK 2 Hults I: 43-70; Field, 15th Century Woodcuts; Shestack, 15th Century Engravings; Landau.

Aug. 26 The Revolution of the Printed Image: 15th Century Woodcuts. (Mayor: 5-10, 21-25, 43, 44, 212).
Aug. 28 The Revolution of the Printed Image & the Triumph of Secular Imagery: 15th Century Engravings. (Mayor: 25, 109-129, 167).

You are invited to visit with a print dealer on the afternoon of Wednesday Aug. 27

WEEK 3 Hults II: 75-130; Panofsky; Hoffmann, Talbot; Landau.

Sept. 2 Later 15th-Century Engravings and the First "Professional Engravers" (Mayor: 130-142).

Sept. 4 Albrecht Dürer. (Mayor: 259-285).

WEEK 4 Hults III: 136-187; Goddard World in Miniature; Levenson; Reed; Landau; Moxey; Pon.

Sept. 9 The "Little Masters," the Danube School, and other developments after Dürer. (Mayor: 293-319)

Sept. 11 Early Printmaking in Italy. (Mayor: 16-17, 58-71, 143-166, 184-197).

WEEK 5 Hults V: 253-318; Jacobowitz; Landau; Riggs

Sept. 16 16th Century Prints from the Low Countries. (Mayor: 373, 417-426).

Sept. 18 16th Century Printmaking from the Low Countries. (Mayor: 330-334).

WEEK 6 Reed (Italian Etchers); Zerner; Leeflang.

Sept. 23 Printmaking France through the 17th Century. (Mayor: 184-197, 354-362, 397-407, 436-438, 453-463).

Sept. 25 Hendrick Goltzius - a printmaker looks at printmaking. Mayor: 286, 419-421).

WEEK 7 Hults IV: 194-247, Ackley "Age of Rembrandt;" Bialler; Stoner-Ferrier; Ackley "Age of Rembrandt;" Boston; Carroll.

Sept. 30 17th Century Prints in the Low Countries. (Mayor: 467-471, 439-444, 506-510).

Oct. 2 Rembrandt. (Mayor: 472-505).

WEEK 8 Hults VI-VII: 323-396; Carlson

Oct. 7 18th Century Masters - Landscape & Imagination. (Mayor: 576-601).

Oct. 9 From Hollar to Hogarth, and from Reproductive Engraving to Blake. (Mayor: 344, 550-555, 601-611)

WEEK 9

Oct. 14 Midterm

[Fall Break Oct. 16-20]

WEEK 10 Hults VII: 396-425; Sayre

Oct. 21 Goya. (Mayor: 624-631).

Oct. 23 Cary Leibowitz visiting


WEEK 11 Hults VIII: 430-515; Gilmour, Lithography as Art.

Oct. 28 Lithography: a New Medium for Art & Industry. (Mayor: 612-616, 659-680, 708-709).

Oct. 30 No Class

 

WEEK 12 Hults IX: 521-577; Baas & Field Fine; Burke

Nov. 4 Wood Engraving & Journalistic Prints; "Woodcut Revival." (Mayor: 636-639, 689-693).

Nov. 6 Charles Meryon and the "Etching Revival" (Mayor: 674-675, 680-688, 694-704, 713-715).

WEEK 13 Hults X: 581-636; Boyle-Turner; Brettell; Cate; Prelinger Nabis; Prelinger Munch.

Nov. 11 Alfred Jarry and other visionaries (Mayor: 679, 710).

Nov. 13 Gauguin, Munch & Ensor (Mayor: 711-712, 135). Carl Fudge Lecture.

WEEK 14 Hults XI: 641-693; Goddard Les XX; Carey & Griffiths; Prelinger "Kollwitz;" Rigby

Nov. 18 James Ensor continued and Käthe Kollwitz

Nov. 20 Printmaking in Germany (Mayor: 742-746).


WEEK 15

Nov. 25 Artists' Books & Multiples

[Thanksgiving Break Nov. 26-30]

WEEK 16 Hults XII: 698-760 Ackley Modern Art; Acton; Field, American Prints; Field & Fine; Gilmour, Mechanized Image; Armstrong; Wye

Dec. 2 20th-Century Printmaking overview. (Mayor: 747-749).

Dec. 4 Print Shop Visit

WEEK 17 Hults XIII: 767-843, Tallman.

Dec. 9 Recent Printmaking -- Robots, Web-based, retro-hand-work....

Dec. 11 Project Sharing

FINAL EXAM: Tuesday, Dec 17, 10:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. (we will use the last hour of this period, 12:00 – 1:00)

 

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