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Felipe Rojas Teaching Assistant: Laurel Hackley Class Hours: MWF 11:00-11:50 Office Hours: T and Th 1-2 Pm Rihall 212 Art in Antiquity: An Introduction ARCH 0030 Instructor: Felipe Rojas Teaching Assistant: Laurel Hackley Class hours: MWF 11:00-11:50 Office hours: T and Th 1-2 pm RIHall 212 What is ancient art? How can we begin to make sense of monuments and objects that were made thousands of years ago? Why should we care about colossal pre-historic monoliths of monsters, the Parthenon (and its many re-incarnations), or the fact that much of what we know about Greek statuary we have learned not from originals, but rather from copies? This class is an introduction to the art of the ancient world. Its chronological scope is vast—from the Upper Paleolithic (ca. 40,000 BC) to the advent of Christianity—with a major emphasis on the first millennium BC. We will concentrate geographically on the art of the ancient Mediterranean and Near East, glimpsing occasionally into other regions of the world including Western Europe and the Americas. Every session will revolve around a single object which we will treat in detail. In addition to the historical and cultural significance of art in antiquity, we will study the influence of ancient (especially Greek and Roman, but also prehistoric) art on later Western culture. While focusing on major monuments treated in class, we will also personally examine Brown’s and RISD’s collections of antiquities. Learning objectives Students will gain familiarity with key objects, monuments, and sites from the ancient Mediterranean and Near East and acquire specific strategies to approach and analyze ancient art. As a requirement for their final project, students will also learn how to produce, record, and edit a digital podcast. Textbook Required Textbook: Greek Art and Archaeology c. 2500-c.150 BCE, by Richard Neer (Thames and Hudson 2012) is available at Bookstore, but will not be needed until the fourth week of class. Other required readings and all PowerPoint presentations will be made available through Canvas. 1 Other resources Visit the RISD Museum’s ancient collections often! (We will also coordinate a joint visit) Visit also the ancient collections of the Museum of Fine Art (Boston) and the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) and get to know their websites. Listen to A History of the World in 100 Objects http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/a_history_of_the_world/objects.aspx#4 Special needs Students with special needs should, please, identify themselves to the instructor as soon as possible and explain their requirements. Expectations Students must attend regularly, participate actively in class, read all weekly assignments, and study all images in class powerpoints. In addition to a final exam, students are required to take two quizzes and to complete two projects, one shot essay or visual exercise, and a podcast. The quizzes and final exam will seek brief answers relating to texts and images from the lectures. They will be administered on-line through Canvas over a 24-hr span. On your honor, these are to be done alone! Course Evaluation ASSIGNMENT DUE DATE Attendance and contribution 10% - Object selection for Project 1 W Oct 7 Quiz 1 10% W Oct 12 Object selection for Project 2 M Oct 19 Project 1 o Essay or visual exercise 20% M Oct 31 Quiz 2 10% M Nov 7 Project 2 Podcast 30% o Script 10% M Nov 14 o Final podcast 20% F Dec 16 Final Exam 20% T Dec 13 Project 1— Thematic Essay or Visual Exercise on Objects in Brown collections Project 2— Podcast on Most Fascinating Art Object in Antiquity (it cannot be an object studied in class) 2 Task Hours 40 1-hour lectures 40 hours 6 hours of reading per week (14 weeks) 84 hours 2 quizzes (1 hour each, assuming about 5 hours of review needed for each one) 12 hours 2 Projects (8 hours for each) 14 hours 1 Script for final project (12 hours) 12 hours 1 Final podcast (recording and editing) 20 hours ___________________________________________ Total hours 182 hours 3 Class Schedule 1—INTRODUCTION W Sep 7 Introduction, overview, objectives F Sep 9 [1 Venus of Willendorf] o Read Judith Thurman “First Impressions: What does the world’s oldest art say about us?” o Read Judith Thurman “Ur mothers” 2—PALEOLITHIC C. 40,000BP-C. 11,000 BP mind M Sep 12 [2 Lion man of Hohle Fels] o Read Jill Cook “Europe’s oldest sculptures 40,000-30,000 years ago” ***Tu Sep 13 7pm RIHall 101*** o Screening of Werner Herzog Cave of Forgotten Dreams (also available on Netflix) W Sep 14 [3 Chauvet Cave] o Read Paul Bahn “Upper Paleolithic Imagery” o Take a virtual tour of Chauvet Cave online at http://archeologie.culture.fr/chauvet/en F Sep 16 [4 Swimming reindeer] o Listen to Swimming Reindeer from A History of the World in 100 Objects available online at http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/player/b00pwn7r o Read Daniel Rosenberg “Marking Time” available at http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/28/rosenberg.php 3—NEOLITHIC C. 11,000BC-C. 4,000 BC memory M Sep 19 [5 Plastered Skull of Jericho] ***Class meets at MulitmediaLab*** o Read David Lewis-Williams and David Pearce “The Revolutionary Neolithic” o Read Alexandra Fletcher “What lies beneath” available at https://blog.britishmuseum.org/2014/07/03/what-lies-beneath-new-discoveries-about-the-jericho- skull/ W Sep 21 [6 Göbekli Tepe Monolith] o Read Charles Mann “The Birth of Religion” available online at http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2011/06/gobekli-tepe/mann-text o Read Elif Batuman “The Sanctuary” F Sep 23 [7 Çatal Höyük Bear] o Read Ian Hodder “The Invention of History” 4 4—FIRST CITIES C. 4,000 BC-C. 3,000 BC signs M Sep 26 [8 Uruk vase] o Read Denise Schmandt-Besserat “The Uruk vase: sequential narrative” o Read Zainab Bahrani “Performativity and the image: narrative, representation and the Uruk vase” W Sep 28 [9 Writing Tablet] o Listen to Early Writing Tablet from A History of the World in 100 Objects o Explore 100-most-important-cuneiform-objects website http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=the_one_hundred_most_important_cuneiform_objects F Sep 30 [10 Narmer Palette] o Read Laurel Bestock “The Violence is Inherent in the System” o Explore Corpus of Egyptian Late Predynastic Palettes available online at http://xoomer.virgilio.it/francescoraf/hesyra/palettes.htm o Professor Laurel Bestock speaks about the Narmer Palette 5—BRONZE AGE C. 3,000 BC-1200BC fragments M Oct 3 [11 Bull Rhyton] o Read Neer 1 o Listen to Minoan Bull Leaper from A History of the World in 100 Objects W Oct 5 [12 Cycladic Figurine] o Read Colin Renfrew “Speculations on the Use of Early Cycladic Figurines” o Read Riccardo Elia “A Troubling and Seductive Work” o Professor John Cherry speaks about Cycladic Figurines F Oct 7 [13 Minoan Frescoes] o Read Yannis Hamilakis “Legacies of Mediterranean Prehistory” 6—IRON AGE C. 1200BC-C.700 BC identity M Oct 10 ***NO CLASS*** W Oct 12 [14a Nestor’s cup (gold); 14b Nestor’s cup (clay)] ***Map quiz*** o Read Neer 2 and Read Neer 3 F Oct 14 [15 Bowl with Luwian inscription] o Read Marian Feldman “Speaking Bowls” 5 7— ARCHAIC GREECE C. 700 BC-C. 440 BC the body M Oct 17 [16 Mantiklos] o Read Neer 4 W Oct 19 [18 Kouros] ***Object selection for podcast*** o Read Neer 5 and 6 o Read Michael Squire “Figuring Out What Comes Naturally” F Oct 21 [19 Tyrant Slayers] o Read Neer 8 8— CLASSICAL GREECE C. 480-C. 400 BC Athens M Oct 24 [20 Acropolis] o Read Neer 11 and 12 o Professor Johanna Hanink speaks about the Athenian acropolis W Oct 26 [21 Parthenon] o Read Hurwitt “The Parthenon and the Temple of Zeus at Olympia” o Listen to Parthenon Sculpture from A History of the World in 100 Objects F Oct 28 [22 Satyr Psykter] o Read Michael Squire “Classical Archaeology and the Contexts of Art History” 9— PERSIA AND GREECE C. 480 BC-C. 323 BC cultural contact M Oct 31 [23 Apadana reliefs] ***Project 1 Due*** o Read Margaret Root “The Parthenon Frieze and the Apadana Reliefs” W Nov 2 [24 Frieze from Temple of Athena at Assos] o Read Margaret Miller “Diacritical Drinking” F Nov 4 [25 Oxus Chariot Model] o Read John Curtis “Jewelry and Personal Ornaments” o Listen to Oxus Chariot Model from A History of the World in 100 Objects 10— THE HELLENISTIC WORLD C. 323BC-… originality M Nov 7 [26 Coin with head of Alexander] ***Image quiz*** o Read Neer 14 o Read Andrew Stewart “Hellenistic Art: Two Dozen Innovations 6 o Listen to Coin of Alexander from A History of the World in 100 Objects W Nov 9 [27 Laocoon] o Read Mary Beard and John Henderson “Moving Statues: Art in the Age of Imitation” F Nov 11 [28 Herakles Statuette] o Read I-Tien Hsing “Herakles in the East” o Read Kurt Behrendt “Gandharan Cultural History: An Introduction” and “Foreign Styles and Urban Tastes” 11—ROME performance M Nov 14 [29 Gold coin of Pompey] the triumph ***Script due*** o Read Mary Beard “Pompey’s Finest Hour” and “The Killing Fields” W Nov 16 [30 The Colosseum] the games o Read Keith Hopkins and Mary Beard “And then” o Read Kathleen Coleman “Fatal Charades” F Nov 18 [31 Zliten Mosaic] music o Read John Landels “The Roman Musical Experience” 12—ROME death M Nov 21 [32 Baberini Togatus] o Read Maurizio Bettini “Death and its Double. Imagines, ridiculum and honos in the Roman aristocratic funeral” o Read Michael Squire “Roman Portraiture and the Semantics of Extraction” W Nov 23 [33 Endymion Sarcophagus] o Read Zanker “Mythological Images as Paraphrases for Virtues and Gender Roles” F Nov 25 NO CLASS Thanksgiving Recess 7 13— ROME 1ST C.
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