111 - 101 FINE ARTS 1A
2. To introduce students to the basic problems of art history
The course will focus on three aspects.
TERM I
A study of Egyptian, Greek and Roman art, circa 1000 B.C.-A.D. 200, with an introduction to Early Christian and Byzantine art.
TERM I1
A special study of selected artists and monuments from the 12th to the 17th century.
TERM Ill
A study of modern art. Sore aspects of Australian art.
Throughout the course there are many options open to students as regards areas of study and students are free to concentrate on their special interests.
The course places considerable emphasis on students obtaining a good range of visual knowledge. It is essential that illustrative material is studied throughout the year. The collections of the National Gallery of Victoria play an important rale in gaining such knowledge. Students
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46Fine Arts should therefore acquaint themselves thoroughly with the collections before and during the course.
BOOKS
Essential preliminary reading:
Gombrich E H The Story of Art, Phaidon paperback 1968 or
Janson H W A History of Art, any ed Thames & Hudson end
Richter G M A A Handbook of Greek Art, 6th ed Phaidon paperback 1968
Clark K The Nude, any ed Prescribed textbooks:
The following are a basic list of readily available books. Most of them are in paperback. Fuller bibliographies and reading lists will be issued to students during the year.
Students are recommended to buy these books.
Clark K The Nude, any ed
Richter G M A A Handbook of Greek Art, 6th ed Phaidon paperback 1968
Trendall A D Notes on Greek and Roman Art, Melbourne 1973 Carpenter R Greek Sculpture, University of Chicago paperback 1971 Toynbee J M C The Art of the Romans, Thames & Hudson 1965 Talbot Rice D Byzantine Art, Pelican 1968
Smart A The Renaissance and Mannerism in Itaiy, Thames & Hudson 1971
Wölfflin H Classic Art, any ed Phaidon
Greenberg C Art and Culture, Thames & Hudson paperback 1973 Smith B Australian Painting, Oxford University Press 1971 Pevsner N An Outline of European Architecture, Pelican 1963
Summerson J The Classical Language of Architecture, any ed Methuen Hoff Ursula European Painting and Sculpture before 1800, National
Gallery of Victoria 1973
The National Gallery of Victoria in conjunction with Oxford University Press publishes a series of Gallery booklets dealing with various aspects of the collection, e.g. French Impressionists and Post-Impressionists.
Prescribed for reference:
Murray Peter & Linda A Dictionary of Art end Artists, Penguin 1964 ASSESSMENT
Class work and written work during the year will constitute part of the assessment. The percentage allotted to class and written work and the details and nature of examination papers (which will not exceed two 3-hour papers) will be available at the beginning of the Academic Year.
111-201 FINE ARTS 2E (PASS) (MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE ART HISTORY)
A course of two lectures per week, with one tutorial class, throughout the year.
No external enrolments are accepted in this subject.
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Students who wish for good reasons to take this subject without having previously taken Fine Arts 1A must obtain permission of the lecturers in charge of the subject and must undertake a course of preliminary reading prescribed by the department.
SYLLABUS
A study of late Medieval and Renaissance Art, with special emphasis on Italy. Tutorial work will include the study of documentary sources and Renaissance art theory as well as stylistic and iconographic problems.
Some tutorials will be conducted in the National Gallery of Victoria.
BOOKS
Detailed reading guides will be issued throughout the year.
(a) Prescribed preliminary reading:
Lamer J Culture and Society in Italy 1290-1420, Batsford 1971 Huizinga J The Waning of the Middle Ages, Pelican 1965
'Panofsky E Renaissance and Renascentes in Western Art, Paladin paperback 1970
Burke P Culture and Society in Italy 1420-1540, Batsford 1972
•Wõlfflin H Classic Art, Phaidon paperback 1968 (b) Prescribed Primary Sources:
'Alberti L В On Painting, ed J. R. Spencer 2nd ed Yale UP paperback 1966
or
Alberti L B On Painting and on Sculpture, c. Grayson Phaidon 1972
•Holt E G A Documentary History of Art, Vols I and Il, Doubleday- Anchor paperback 1958
•Klein R & Zerner H Italian Art 1500-1600, Sources and Documents in the History of Art, Prentice-Hall paperback 1966
Leonardo Treatise on Painting, tr A. P. McMahon, Princeton 1957 Complete Poems and Selected Letters of Michelangelo, tr with foreword
and notes by C Gilbert, Modern Library New York 1965
Vasari G Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects, Everyman Library 1962
Oerte! R Early Italian Painting 600-1400, Thames & Hudson 1966 Panofsky E Early Netherlandish Painting, 2 vols. Cambridge Mass.
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Pope-Hennessy J An Introduction to Italien Sculpture, 3 parts, 5 vols.
Phaidon 1955-63
Seymour C Sculpture In Italy 1400-1500, Pelican History of Art Series 1966
White J Art and Architecture in Italy 1250-1400, Pelican History of Ar Series 1966
Wittkower R Architectural Principles in the Age of Humanism, Tiranti paperback 1962
WRITTEN WORK
Students are required to submit one essay (of approximately 3,000 words) and two or three class papers during the year.
EXAMINATION
Class work, written work and tests done during the year will constitute part of the examination. The percentage allotted to class and written 148
Fine Arts work and the details and nature of examination papers (which will not exceed two 3-hour papers) will be available from the Fine Arts Department at the beginning of the Academic Year.
111-301 FINE ARTS 3F (PASS) (EARLY CHRISTIAN AND BYZANTINE: BAROQUE ART HISTORY)
A course of seminars each week throughout the year, together with a special class per week for part of the year.
Students who wish to take this subject should consult with the lecturer in charge of the subject. A reading knowledge of a modern European language or of Latin is desirable.
SYLLABUS
The course consists of two half-year units.
(a) A study of selected problems in late Antique, Early Christian and Byzantine art and archaeology in the first half of the year.
(b) A study of the art of the Baroque with special emphasis on Italy in the second half of the year.
BOOKS
Unit (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 Art Forms and civic life in the late Roman Empire,
Princeton University 1965
Grabar A Christian Iconography, A Study of its Origins, New York University 1969
Detailed bibliographies will be issued throughout the year.
Unit (b) Recommended for preliminary reading:
Ovid Metamorphoses, Pelican 1964
• Panofsky E Meaning in the Visual Arts, Doubleday 1955, Introduction and Ch. 1
Маle E Religious Art, Noonday paperback 1968
Wõlfflin H Classic Art, Phaidon paperback 1968 Shearman J Mannerism, Pelican 1967
Kitson M The Age of the Baroque, McGraw-Hill 1966
Dickens A G The Counter Reformation, Thames & Hudson 1968 WRITTEN WORK
Students are required to submit at least two essays of approximately 3,000 words and 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 ex- ceed two 3-hour papers) will be available at the beginning of the Ace- demic Year.
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111-302 FINE ARTS 3K (PASS) (EUROPEAN ART HISTORY NINETEENTH AND EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURIES)
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.
SYLLABUS
A study of European art of the 19th and 20th centuries with special reference to painting and sculpture from 1848 to the present day.
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
Arneson H H History of Modern Art, Prentice-Hall 1969
Hitchcock H R Architecture, Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Peli- can History of Art 1958
(b) Prescribed textbooks:
Primary Sources
Eitner 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 1966 Baudelaire: Selected Writings on Art and Artists, Penguin classics 1972
•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 and Post-Impressionism, 1874 to 1904.
In Sources and Documents in the History of Art Series, Prentice- Hail 1967
Venturi L Les Archives de L'Impressionisme, 2 vols Paris 1939
Chipp H B Theories of Modern Art, University of California Press 1968 Secondary Sources
Praz M The Romantic Agony, Fontana paperback 1962
Boime 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
Licht F Sculpture 19th and 20th Centuries, London 1967
Fine Arts 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
Meiss M et al eds Problems of the 19th and 20th centuries Studies in Western Art Vol. IV, Princeton 1963
Duthuit G The Fauvist Painters, New York 1950 Cooper D The Cubist Epoch, London 1971
Pevsner N Pioneers of Modern Design from William Morris to Walter Gropius, Penguin rev ed 1960
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. Class work and written work done during the year will constitute part of the examination.
HONOURS DEGREE