Dr R. W. Gaston
Honours Fine Arts 3F may not be taken, in addition to Honours Fine Arts 2F.
A course of seminars each week throughout the year, and occasional lectures, together with a special class per week for part of the year.
SYLLABUS
A study of selected problems in Early Christian and Byzantine art and archaeology. In addition, a Special Study of Iate antique art is offered in conjunction with the Classics department.
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BOOKS
(a) Recommended for preliminary reading:
Brown P The World of Late Antiquity, Thames & Hudson 1971 Brown P Augustine of Hippo, A Biography, Faber & Faber 1969 Beckwith J The Art of Constantinople. Phaidon 1968
Beckwith J Early Christian and Byzantine Art, Pelican 1971
Krautheimer R Early Christian and Byzantine Architecture, Pelican 1965 L'Orange H P An Forms and civic lite in the late Roman Empire,
Princeton University 1965
Grabar A Christian Iconography, A Study of its Origins, New York Uni- versity 1969
Detailed bibliographies will be issued throughout the year.
WRITTEN WORK
Students are required to submit one essay of approximately 4,000-5,000 words and at least two class papers throughout the year.
EXAMINATION
Class work and written work done during the year will constitute part of the examination. The percentage allotted to class and written work and the details and nature of final examination papers (which will not exceed two 3-hour papers) will be available at the beginning of the Academic Year.
111-362 FINE ARTS 3k HONOURS (EUROPEAN ART HISTORY NINETEENTH AND EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURIES)
Mr L. J. Course
A fortnightly seminar of two hours throughout the year and four ad- ditional 2-hour. seminars in second term. Students will also attend the two lectures and one tutorial each week in Fine Arts 3K.
SYLLABUS
A study of European art of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries with special reference to French painting and sculpture from the Barbizon School to the School of Paris.
The fortnightly seminar will concentrate on Studies in the Criticism of French Art. The additional seminars In second term will be given on the techniques of painting and of conservation of works of art.
BOOKS
The following is a basic list only.
books marked with an asterisk.
Further bibliographical guides to ence will be issued to supplement (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 and Twentieth Centuries, Peli- can History of Art 1958
Students are recommended to buy the monographs and other works of refp•- this basic list.
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(b) Prescribed textbooks:
Primary Sources
Eitner L Neoclassicism and Romanticism 1750 to 1850, Vol. Il. In Sources and Documents In the History of Art Series, Prentice-Hall 1970
Holt E G From the Classicists to the Impressionists, Doubleday 1966 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 end Documents in the History of Art Series, Prentice-Hall 1966
•Nochlin Linda impressionism and Post-Impressionism, 1874 to 1904.
In Sources and Documents In the History of Art Series, Prentice-Hall 1967
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
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 ro 1870, Oxford 1959 Clark K The Gothic Revival, Penguin 1964
Novotny F Painting and Sculpture in Europe, 1780 to 1880, Pelican History of Art
Borne A The Academy and French Painting in the 19th Century, Lon- don 1971
Clark T J The Absolute Bourgeois: Artists & Politics in France, 1848-1851, London 1973
Clark T J Image of the People: Gustave Courbet & the 1848 Revolu- tion, London 1973
Nochlin L Realism, Penguin 1971
Hitchcock Russell H Architecture, Nineteenth and 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 1958
Rewald J Post-Impressionism from Van Gogh to Gauguin, New York 1958
Sutter J ed The Neo-Impressionists, tr Deliss C London 1971 Rewald J Redon, Moreau, Bresdin, New York 1961
Rewald J Pierre Bonnard, New York 1948
Meiss M et al eds Problems of the 19th and 20th centuries Studieв in Western Art Vol. IV, Princeton 1983
Duthuit G The Fauvist Painters, New York 1950 Barr A H Cubism and Abstract Art, New York 1938
Pevsner N Pioneers of Modern Design from William Morris to Welter Gropius, Penguin Rev ed 1980
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Gropius Walter The New Architecture and the Bauhaus, Faber paperback 1965
(c) Prescribed textbooks for seminar study:
Venturi L History of Art Criticism; E P Dutton & Co 1936
Brookner A The Genius of the Future: Studies in French Art Criticism, Phaidon 1971
Baudelaire C P Art in Paris 1845 to 1862, tr ed Mayne J, London 1965
Baudelaire, C P The Painter of Modern Life and Other Essays, tr ed Mayne J, London 1965
Nochlin L Realism and Tradition in Art 1848 to 1900. In Sources end Documents in the History of Art Series, Prentice-Hall 1966
Nochlin L Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, 1784 to 1904. In Sources end Documents in the History of Art Series, Prentice-Hall 1967
Chipp H B Theories of Modern Art: A source Book by Artists and Critics, University of California Press 1968
A bibliography will be issued for the aďditional seminars In second term.
Preliminary reading:
Constable W G The Painters Workshop, Oxford 1954 WRITTEN WORK
One 4,000-5,000 word essay and at least one class paper per term.
Students may, at their option, complete the tutorial exercise for Fine Arts 3K. In addition a special visual exercise may be given.
EXAMINATION
Not more than three 3-hour papers, two papers as for the ordinary de- gree but at a higher standard. The third will be devoted to the seminar work. Class work and written work is considered part of the examination.