Mr L. J. Course
A course of two lectures per week, with one tutorial class, throughout the year.
This subject Is not available for external tuition.
Fine Arts 3K will be given every year.
SYLLAB US
A study of European art of the 19th and early 20th centuries with special reference to French painting and sculpture from the Barbizon School to the School of Paris.
BOOKS
The following Is a basic list only. Students are recommended to buy the books marked with an asterisk.
Further bibliographical guides to monographs and other works of refer- ence will be Issued to supplement this basic list.
(a) Prescribed preliminary reading:
Huyghe R Modern Art, London 1965
'Novotny Fritz Painting and Sculpture in Europe 1780 to 1880, Pelican History of Art 1960
'Hamilton G H Painting and Sculpture In Europe 1880 to 1940, Pelican History of Art 1967
Arnason H H History of Modern Art, Prentice-Hall 1969
Hitchcock H R Architecture, Nineteenth sпd Twentieth Centuries, Pell- can History of Art 1958
(b) Prescribed textbooks:
Primary Sources
Eltner L Neoclassicism and Romanticism 1750 to 1850, Vol II. In Sources and Documents In the History of Art Series, Prentice-Hall 1970
'Holt E G From the Classicists to the Impressionists, Doubleday 1988 Baudelaire C P Art In Paris, 1845 to 1862, tr ed Mayne J, Phaidon
1965
Baudelaire C P The Painter of Modern Life and Other Essays, tr ed Mayne J, Phaidon 1965
'Nochlin Linda Realism and Tradition In Art, 1848 to 1900. In Sources and Documents In the History of Art Series, Prentice-Hall 1966 'Nochlin Linda Impressionism afd Post-Impressionism, 1874 to 1904.
In Sources and Documents In the History of Art Series, Prentice- Hall 1987
Venturi L Les Archives de L'Impressionisme, 2 vols Paris 1939 Degas E Letters, ed Guerin M, tr Kay M, Oxford 1945
Gauguin P Noe-Noe, tr Griffin J, London 1960 Cezanne P Letters, ed Rewald J, London 1941
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Van Gogh V The Complete Letters, 3 vols, Greenwich 1958
Chipp H B Theories of Modern Art, University of California Press 1968 Secondary Sources
Borie T S R English Art, 1800 to 1870, Oxford 1959 Clark K The Gothic Revival, Penguin 1964
Novotny F Painting and Sculpture in Europe, 1780 to 1880, Pelican
History of Art .
Bo rne A The Academy and French Painting in the 19th Century, London 1971
Clark T J The Absolute Bourgeois: Artists & Politics in France 1848- 1851, London 1973
Clark T J Image of the People: Gustave Courbet and the 1848 Revo- lution, London 1973
Nochlin L Realism, Penguin' 1971
Hitchcock Russell H Architecture, Nineteenth end Twentieth Centuries.
Pelican History of Art 1958
Licht F Sculpture 19th and 20th Centuries, London 1967 Herbert Robert L Barbizon Revisited, Boston 1962 Huyghe R Delacroix, Trans London 1963
Mack G Gustave Courbet, London 1951
Gauss C E The Aesthetic Theories of French Artists 1855 to the Present. Baltimore 1949
Rewald J The History of Impressionism, New York 1956
Rewald J Post-Impressionism from Van Gogh to Gauguin, New York 1956
Sutter J ed The Neo-Impressionists, tr Deliss C. London 1971 Bewald J Redon, uniu, Bresdin, New York 1961
Rewald J Pierre Bonnard, New York 1948
Meias M et al eds Problems of the 19th afd 20th centuries Studies in Western Art Vol. IV, Princeton 1963
Duthuit G The Fauvist Painters, New York 1950 Barr A H Cubism and Abstract Art, New York 1936
Pevsner N Pioneers of Modern Design from William Morris to Walter Gropius. Penguin Rev ed 1960
Gropius Walter The New Architecture and the Bauhaus, Faber paperback 1965
WRITTEN WORK
Students are required to submit an essay of 4,000-5,000 words and complete two or three exercises during the year. In addition a special visual exercise may be given.
EXAMINATION .
No more than two 3-hour papers. Written work as prescribed above by the department.
• HONOURS DEGREE
N. SCHOOL OF FINE ARTS .
(For possible combinations with this school see Ch. 6.)
1. The course for the degree with honours in the School of Fine Arts comprises a first preliminary year and three years in the honours school as set out below. Students should plan their courses in consultation with a member of the academic staff of the depart- 144
ment of Fine Arts, and should make appointments for this pur- pose at the departmental office as well as with the sub-dean.
2. First (preliminary) year
(a) The normal requirements for admission in the second year to the honours school of Fine Arts are:
(i) A suitable standard (usually the equivalent of first or sec- ond class honours) in Fine Arts 1A;
(ii) Passes in three other first-year subjects.
(b) The latter subjects must be chosen to comply with the re- quirements of the ordinary degree, but it is strongly recom- mended that students intending to pursue honours in Fine Arts Include in their first year studies:
(i) A subject in History, English or Classics;
(ii) Part 1 of a language other than English. (Note: reading ability in the relevant Modern European languages and, in specific cases, of Latin and Greek Is important for advanced study in Art History);
(iii) A subject which can form the first part of a major (or at least a two-subject sequence) supporting or complement- ing an honours course in Art History;
(iv) The optional additional seminar work in Fine Arts 1A.
Second year
(i) Fine Arts 2E Honours (Medieval and Renaissance) and one of:
History 2R Honours Late Medieval European History' or a Grade 2 Honours subject in a related discipline approved by the depart- ment.
(1i) A Grade 2 subject in a discipline other than Fine Arts forming a two-subject sequence with a subject taken in the first year.
Third year
(I) Fine Arts 3K Honours (European Art, 19th and 20th centuries) and:
Fine Arts 3F Honours (Early Christian and Byzantine).
(1i) In addition students may take an additional pass subject or approved course of study. Students may take this opportunity to complete a pass major.
(iii) Undertake a course which will increase proficiency in reading foreign languages.
(iv) Students should select the topic for their thesis at the beginning of third term, in consultation with a member of the academic staff of the Department of Fine Arts. It is expected that students will have progressed sufficiently by the end of third term to be able to do substantial work on the thesis during the long vacation.
Fourth year: Final Honours
(a) The final year in the school of Art History consists of:
(1) Fine Arts 4R Honours (Theory and Method of Art History);
(ii) Fine Arts 4S Honours (Special Study in Art History);
' BY arrangement with the Department of History the prerequisite for this subject for a student in the Fine Arts Honours School will be a suitable standard In a first year History and Fine Arts 1A.
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(iii) Completion of the final honours thesis of 8,000-10,000 words due to be submitted on the first day of second term.
Final Examination
Examinations in third and final years will be regarded as comprising final examinations in the School of Art History, and will normally consist of:
(i) The papers in each of the honours Fine Arts subjects taken in third year. (These papers will be written in the third year);
(li) Assessment of the final honours thesis, and (iii) In the final year the examinations in 4R and 4S;
(iv) Written work done during the year will constitute part of both examinations.
Fine Arts in Combined Honours Courses
Normally Fine Arts in combined honours courses consists of half the Fine Arts subjects required or recommended in the pure honours school: i.e. Fine Arts 1A in the first year; Fine Arts 2E Honours (Medieval and Renaissance) in the . second year; either Fine Arts 3F Honours (Early Christian and Byzantine) or Fine Arts 31( Honours (European Art, 19th and 20th centuries) in the third year; and Fine Arts 4R Honours (Theory and Method of Art History and Criticism) or Fine Arts 4S Honours (Special Study in Art History) in the fourth year.
For some of the possible combined honours courses with Fine Arts see Ch. 6.