Department: Art and Design
Course Number and Title: ART 1020 Art in New York
Bulletin Description:
Art 1020 is a mini-session course that is a survey of New York City’s galleries and museums. Students
will visit major New York art institutions and view their collections and learn the fundamental
intellectual and perceptual
Prerequisite(s):
Co-requisite(s):
List Prerequisites here.
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Program Goals and Outcomes
This BFA Art Elective applies to the most of the program goals and outcomes of all 4 BFA majors in that
such an elective encompasses the reinforcement of knowledge of art history, discipline specific visual
skills as well as research and critical skills specified in each of the program goals.
Units of Instruction:
A.
Overview of the Museums and Gallery of New York
Classroom orientation and introduction intended to familiarize students with the New York
City museums and galleries.
B.
Looking at and Writing about Works of Art
Classroom workshop designed as an introduction to the fundamentals of writing visual
analysis papers.
C.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Students will survey selected works from the museum’s collection that spans 5000 years from
Egypt, Greece, Rome, the Near and Far East, Europe, and the Americas.
D.
The Museum of Modern Art
Students will study selected paintings, sculpture, drawing, prints, architecture and design,
photographs, and illustrated books from the 18th- 20th centuries.
E.
The Cloisters
A study of Late Medieval Art, the Romanesque, and Gothic.
F.
The Whitney Museum of American Art
Survey of 20th Century American painting, sculpture, drawing, photography, prints, film, and
video.
G.
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Survey of art from the Post Impressionists, The Cubists, Di Steil, Impressionists, and other
early 20th century movements.
H.
The Frick Collection
European paintings, sculpture, drawings, prints, porcelains, enamels, furniture, rugs, silver,
Renaissance through late 19th-century; American paintings
I.
The Art Galleries in Chelsea, The Lower East Side and along 57th Street in Manhattan
An introduction to the commercial galleries of contemporary and historical art and the culture
of the art marketplace.
J.
Supplementary Museums
Other museums to be considered at the discretion of the Professor include but are not limited
to the Rubin Museum, The Museum of Art and Design, The Cooper-Hewitt National Design
Museum, The Brooklyn Museum, The Queens Museum.
Bibliography:
Adams, Laure Schneider. The Methodologies of Art: An Introduction. Westview Press; Second Edition, 2nd
Ed. 2009
Albers, Joseph. Interaction of Color. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1963.
Arnheim, Rudolf. Art and Visual Perception. University of California Press. 1964.
Hauser, Arnold. The Social History of Art. (vols. 1-4) New York: Vintage Books/ A Division of Random House,
1985.
Stangos, Nikos. Concepts of Modern Art. New York: Prentice Hall & Harry N. Abrams 2000.
Stewart, Mary. Launching the Imagination. McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages; 4 edition
2011)
Stokstad, Marilyn and Michael Cothren. Art History 5th edition. New York: Prentice Hall & Harry N. Abrams,
2013.
Pierce, James Smith. From Abacus to Zeus : A Handbook of Art History, 7th ed. Published/Created: Upper
Saddle River, N.J. : Pearson Prentice Hall, 2004.
Robertson, Jean and Craig McDaniel. Themes of Contemporary Art: Visual Art after 1980. New York:
Oxford University Press, 2013.
Rosenblum, Naomi. A World History of Photography. Abbeville Press 4th Ed. 2008.
Rush, Michael. New Media in Late 20th Century Art. Thames and Hudson New York. 1999.
Sayre, Henry M. Writing About Art 6rd ed. New York: Prentice Hall Upper Saddle River NJ, 2008.
APPENDIX I: NEW YORK STATE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT REQUIREMENTS
APPENDIX I: NEW YORK STATE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT REQUIREMENTS
New York State Education Department (NYSED) Requirement: NYSED requires that there be 15 hours of
instruction and 30 hours of supplementary assignments for each course credit.
Students are expected to complete 90 supplementary hours of research and class work per semester.
APPENDIX II: RATIONALE FOR A UNIVERSITY-WIDE CORE CURRICULUM
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