ART448/601-01

AMERICAN ART AND ARCHITECTURE

FALL 2009

PROF. R. BARRIS, OFF.: 213 POWELL; HRS: 11-3 MW, OR BY APPT.; X6001 OR rbarris@radford.edu

COMPLETE ONLINE SYLLABUS

CONNECT TO: ARTSTOR

Outline of Topics:

Links to Study Guides, Image Groups, and Exemplary Student Work

will be added throughout the semester

WEEK

TOPIC

READING

1

Course introduction; Pre-colonial America; Imagining America from Europe

Outline of Chapter 1 (pdf file)
Summary of "Imagining America"
Copy of handout on Image Analysis

ch. 1, 2: 23 - 31; Image group 1: Pre-contact civilizations

Image Group 2: Imagining America (updated)

2

Colonizing the “new” world: memory, geography, politics and difference

Outline: Architectural Developments in the Early Colonial Period
one page from an Image Notebook: the Fairbanks house

ch. 2 (remainder); ch. 3 (all)

Image group 3: Early Colonial Architecture

3

later colonial architecture: Georgian and Palladian influences; the plantation landscape

Outline: House styles from Colonial to Georgian
Image Notebook Grading Rubric

ch. 4; Image group 4: Later Colonial Architecture

4

Representing families and painting portraits

Individual and Family Portraits: summary and recap
Image Notebook for Group 4: student work
More on the Family Portrait

ch. 4 (Artists Painting); ch. 5 (Painting in the New Nation); 

s/a: ch. 6, 171-2; Image group 5: Painting People

5

Representing the nation: creating a national iconography

An Outline of the Architectural Design of the Capitol

19th Century Revivals, Pt. 1

ch. 5; Image group 6: Creating a national iconography

Image Group 7: Representing race and gender in the early Republic

OCT 2 

Reading Essay #1 due

RREADING SUMMARIES: LOVELL AND VLACH

6

Living the sentimental life: paradise or prison?

Two image write-ups from Fall 08

Kate and Allie's image notebook for Unit 6
Harriet Hosmer: Sculptor
Outline of "Picturesque" Architecture
Alternative Housing in the 19th century

Sublime and Luminist Landscape Painting

ch. 6 (through p. 179) and ch. 8: 241-265

Image group 8: Sentimental (?) Narratives

Image Group 9: A Changing Domestic Landscape
Image group 10: Picturesque sublime?

7

race, slavery and war: representations, reconstructions, and memorials 

ch. 8 (remainder); ch. 9 (all)

Image Group 11: Representing Race, part 2

8

towards a new architecture (Sullivan, Richardson, A & C)

ch. 10

Image Group 12: Richardson and Sullivan

OCT 20

Reading Essay #2 due

OCT 22

no class

10-11

painting the new woman and the new man;  Europe at the Armory Show; Frank Lloyd Wright and the new architecture

ch. 12 - 13

image group 13: Columbian Exposition
image group 14: Aestheticism and Arts & Crafts

NOV 13 

Reading Essay #3

 paper abstract guidelines

11 - 12

American architectural styles at the turn of the 19th century

ever higher and higher: creating a corporate culture; American constructivism: a machine aesthetic

Image group 15: The emergence of an American idiom in housing

Image group 16: California encounters

 

13

Powerpoint presentation: Pop Art and Postmodern Architecture

ch. 16

DEC 2

Reading Essay #4

14

history of the recent past: from modern to postmodern America; public art: the fusion of art and architecture

choose 17, 18, or 19 

DEC 10

Reading Essay #5

Writing/Reading Help:

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