San Diego State University
Department of Art and Design and Art History, Fall 2012
Art 575, European Art 1600-1750: Course Syllabus
INSTRUCTOR: Dr. Allyson B. Williams
LECTURES: Tues. and Thurs., 12:30-1:45
OFFICE (Old Art Building) A-559
OFFICE PHONE: 594-5918
OFFICE HOURS: Wednesday 2:45-3:45. Please don’t hesitate to contact me if you are
having trouble!
E-MAIL: allyson@mail.sdsu.edu (Please use Art 575 in the subject line, and remember
to sign your name!) I try to answer all e-mails sent on weekdays within 24 hours. If I
somehow miss your e-mail and have not responded after 24 hours, feel free to send the email again. I reserve the right not to answer e-mails on the weekend, but if possible I will
probably check in.
TEXTS: Stephen F. Eisenmann, Nineteenth-Century Art: A Critical History. Fourth
Edition, Thames and Hudson 2011, available at the Aztec Shop, and at KB Books on
College Ave. Weekly/biweekly readings (articles, book chapters) will be on Blackboard
(pdfs or links to JSTOR).
EXAM SUPPLIES: 3 small Red Parscore forms, three blue books.
IMAGES: Powerpoints will be posted on Blackboard after the lectures
COURSE DESCRIPTION AND EXPECTED LEARNING OUTCOMES: This course
takes an in-depth look at the visual culture of Europe from the late eighteenth century to
the end of the nineteenth century. The class focuses on the painting, sculpture,
printmaking and material culture of France, Spain, England and Germany. Students will
explore how social, economic and political events, as well as aesthetic issues, influenced
the visual arts in this period. Students will be also introduced to various critical
approaches to nineteenth century art and will consider concepts of gender, class, and race
as factors in artistic production and reception. The status of the artist, artistic techniques,
and the art market are also addressed. The course will have a lecture format but will
include class discussions of the readings. In addition to exploring the rich variety of the
visual arts in nineteenth-century Europe, students will develop critical skills through
reading and responding to primary and secondary sources
ASSIGNMENTS AND EXAMS:
•There will be two Mid-Term exams and one Final exam. The exams will include
multiple choice slide identifications and essays based on slide comparisons and the
weekly reading. THERE WILL BE NO MAKE-UP EXAMS UNLESS THERE IS A
VERY SERIOUS, DOCUMENTABLE REASON. There is no extra credit assignment in
this course.
•There will be one research paper of 7 pages (for Graduate Students, the paper must be
15-20 pages.) Your paper will be submitted in hard copy in class and electronically
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through a component of Blackboard called Turnitin, which also checks text for
plagiarism.
Students agree that by taking this course all required papers may be subject to submission
for textual similarity review to Turnitin.com for the detection of plagiarism. All
submitted papers will be included as source documents in the Turnitin.com reference
database solely for the purpose of detecting plagiarism of such papers. You may submit
your papers in such a way that no identifying information about you is included. Another
option is that you may request, in writing, that your papers not be submitted to
Turnitin.com. However, if you choose this option you will be required to provide
documentation to substantiate that the papers are your original work and do not include
any plagiarized material.
•Journal: You will keep an online journal with your reflections, questions, thoughts and
responses to the weekly/biweekly readings (apart from the textbook). I will read them
and we will discuss the issues raised in them in class. Unless there are problems, I
probably won’t comment on the individual entries, but will give a grade at the end of
term. Since the articles/book excerpts form the basis for essay questions on the exams,
the closer you read the articles and book chapters, the better you will do on the midterms.
The grade breakdown will be as follows:
First Midterm 15%
Second Midterm 20%
Paper 25%
Journal Reflections on Weekly/Bi-Weekly assigned readings 15%
Final Exam 25%
Grading Scale:
A
93%
A90%
B+
87%
B
83%
B80%
C+
77%
C
CD+
D
DF
73%
70%
67%
63%
60%
59% or below
Note on Plagiarism and Cheating:
These will not be tolerated in class and will result in failure of the course and reporting to
the Office of Student Rights and Responsibilities. As stated in the SDSU Statement of
Student Rights and Responsibilities “Examples of cheating include unauthorized sharing
of answers during an exam, use of unauthorized notes or study materials during an exam,
altering an exam and resubmitting it for regrading, having another student take an exam
for you or submit assignments in your name, participating in unauthorized collaboration
on coursework to be graded, providing false data for a research paper, or creating/citing
false or fictitious references for a term paper. (Submitting the same paper for multiple
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classes may also be considered cheating if not authorized by the instructors involved).
Examples of plagiarism include any attempt to take credit for work that is not your own,
such as using direct quotes from an author without using quotation marks or indentation
in a paper, paraphrasing work that is not your own without giving credit to the original
source of the idea, or failing to properly cite all sources in the body of your work.”
STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES:
Students who need accommodation of their disabilities should contact me privately to
discuss specific accommodations for which they have received authorization. If you have
a disability, but have not contacted Student Disability Services at 619-594-6473 (Calpulli
Center, Suite 3101), please do so before making an appointment to see me. The web site
for Student Disability Services is: http://www.sa.sdsu.edu/sds/index.html
DUE DATES: First Exam: Thursday, September 26
Research Paper Outline and Preliminary Bibliography: Nov. 7
Second Exam: Thursday, October 31
Term Paper: Thursday November 21 in class and online
Final Exam: Thursday, December 12 10:30-12:30
Schedule of Classes (Lecture dates are approximate and subject to change)
Week 1. Aug. 27, 29
Course overview, 18th c background; Classicism and Jacques Louis David
Week 2. Sept. 3, 5
David, The French Revolution and the Directory; The Napoleonic Era
Week 3. Sept. 10, 12:
Romanticism: Gericault
Week 4. Sept 17, 19
Romanticism: Delacroix
Week 5. Sept. 24, 26
Blake and England, Review
Thursday September 26 Mid-Term Exam #1
Week 6. October 1, 3
Spain and Goya
Week 7. October 8, 10
German Romanticism
Week 8. October 15, 17
English Romanticism in Landscape Painting, Constable and Turner
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Week 9. October 22, 24
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
Week 10. October 29, 31
Academic Painting and the Decline of History Painting, Review
Thursday October 31 Mid-Term Exam #2
Week 11. Nov. 5, 7
Mid-century realism in France, Courbet, Daumier, Millet, Women artists
Research Paper Outline and Preliminary Bibliography
Week 12. Nov 12, 14
Photography, Realism con’t, Manet
Impressionism
Week 13. Nov. 19, 21
Impressionism Post Impressionism, Seurat, Van Gogh, Toulouse Lautrec
Research Paper due in class and online Nov. 21
Week 14. Nov. 26,
Post Impressionism, Gauguin
November 28 No Class, Happy Thanksgiving
Week 15. Dec. 3
Cezanne, Rodin
Arts and Crafts movement;
Week 16. Dec. 10 last class
Symbolism, Review
Final Exam: Thursday December 12, 10:30-12:30
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