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AH 408: MODERN ITALIAN ART, 1850-2007
LECTURE AND READING SCHEDULE
*Sandra Pinto’s History of Italian Art is a catalogue of Rome’s GNAM with good entries on individual works; read in conjunction with the works discussed in class throughout the semester.
WEEK I.
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1/22 (T): History as Reflected in the Art, Architecture, and Plan of Florence
1/24 (R): Risorgimento: Before and After
Required Reading:
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WEEK II.
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1/29 (T): The Macchiaioli
1/31 (R): The Macchiaioli as Painters of Florence
Required Reading:
- Duggan: 117-142
- Reader: Boime, Di Piero
Recommended Reading:
- Boime, Broude, Ciacci, Tonelli & Hart
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WEEK III.
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2/5 (T): Print Room Visits
(9,10,11 a.m. in Chazen Print Room – advance sign-up)
2/7 (R): Italian Art at the Turn of the Century
Required Reading:
- Braun: 11-47
- Duggan: 143-170
- Reader: Boime, Braun, Broude, Fattori, Cecioni, Martelli
- Xeroxes: Post-Impressionism
Recommended Reading:
- Braun, Bossaglia, Celant (IA), Chini, Ciacci, Mann, Piantoni
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WEEK IV.
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2/12 (T): Post-Impressionism: Symbolism, Divisionism, Stile Liberty
2/14 (R): Divisionism/Stile Liberty
Required Reading:
- Braun: 49-56
- Reader: Rosso, Kaplan, Poggi, Futurist Manifestoes
- Website
Recommended Reading:
- Celant/Hulten (IA), Hulten, Ciacci, Martin, Piantoni, Weisberg
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WEEK V.
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2/19 (T): 1860 (Alessandro Blasetti, 1934)
2/21 (R): The Bicycle Thief (Vittorio De Sica, 1948)
Required Reading:
- Duggan: 171-204
- Reader: Antliff, Futurist Manifestoes, Poggi
- Tisdall: entire book
- Website
Recommended Reading:
- Apollonio, Celant/Hulten, Coen, Hulten, Humphreys
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WEEK VI.
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2/26 (T): Futurism: Manifestoes & Development
2/28 (R): Futurist Figuration & Abstraction
Required Reading:
- Reader: Antliff, Poggi
- Tisdall: entire book
Recommended Reading:
- Celant/Hulten, Coen, Crispolti, Hulten, Humphreys, Meyer
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WEEK VII.
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3/4 (T): The Spread of Futurism: Design, Photography, Architecture
3/6 (R): The Spread of Futurism
Required Reading:
- Reader: Antliff, Poggi
- Tisdall: entire book
Recommended Reading:
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WEEK VIII.
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3/11 (T): Seven-Week Exam
3/12 (R): Modigliani
Required Reading:
- Braun: 57-70, 148-154
- Reader: Adamson, Nochlin, De Chirico & Carrà, Morandi
- Tisdall: entire book
Recommended Reading:
- Affron & Antliff, Celant/Hulten, Heller & Fili, Hulten, Marchioni
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***SPRING BREAK: Saturday, March 15th – Sunday, March 23rd***
WEEK IX.
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3/25 (T): Scuola Metafisica
3/27 (R): Novecento/Fascism and Tradition
Required Reading:
- Braun: 71-80, 155-164
- Duggan: 205-239
- Reader: Braun (SV,MS,PR), Manifesto of Mural Painting, Nochlin, Pratolini
Recommended Reading:
- Carrà, Cannistraro, Celant/Hulten, Rubin, Wilkin
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WEEK X. Sculpture and Architecture.
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4/1 (T): The Return to the Classical/Morandi
4/3 (R): Fascism and Tradition/Rationalism
Required Reading:
- Braun: 165-186
- Duggan: 205-239
- Reader: Braun (PR)
- Xeroxes: Ghirardo, Stone
Recommended Reading:
- Braun, Cowling/Mundy, Crispolti
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WEEK XI.
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4/8 (T): Second Futurism/Scuola Romana
4/10 (R): Mussolini's Re-Building of Italy/World War II
**Research Paper 50-Word Précis, Outline, and Bibliography Due** [Assignment
Guidelines]
Required Reading:
- Braun: 187-192
- Duggan: 240-194
- Reader: Manifestoes, Marini, Sparke
Recommended Reading:
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WEEK XII.
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4/15 (T): Italian Metamorphosis/Abstraction
4/17 (R): Postwar Figuration/Marini
Required Reading:
- Braun: 289-307
- Reader: Manifestoes, Rubinstein, Silk, Superstudio
- Reader: Vertrocq
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WEEK XIII.
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4/22 (T): The New Design
4/24 (R): New Figuration and Abstraction
Required Reading:
- Braun: 289-307
- Grove's: Arte Povera, Kounellis, Informel (Art Informel), Manzoni
- Xeroxes: Vetrocq
Recommended Reading:
- Christov-Bakargiev, Celant (IM)
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WEEK XIV.
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4/29 (T): Informel/Provocation
5/1 (R): Arte Povera
Required Reading:
- Braun: 359-375
- Reader: Ratcliff, Vetrocq
Recommended Reading:
- Celant (IM), Christov-Bakargiev, Manzoni, Waldman
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WEEK XV.
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5/6 (T): Transavanguardia & Contemporary
5/8 (R): Fifteen-Week Exam