Docent Training - Nevada Museum of Art Fall 2006

UNR - Art 261: Survey of Western Art - Fall 2006/Growdon

Calendar of Assignments

Dates: Subject Reading in Gardner Text Assignment

Mon.

Aug 28

Introduction: Setting the stage in the late 14th c.

Preface, pg. XVI-XXV
Introduction, pg. XXVII - XXXIX

Reading in text should be complete when you come to class.

Preface has a good intro to the basics of Christianity and the basics of architecture from Greco-Roman antiquity through the Christian medieval period.
Wed. Aug 30 & Wed. Sep. 6 Introduction & Early Renaissance: Northern Europe

Chapt. 19, and begin Chapt. 20, pg. 544-569

 

 
Mon. Sep 11 & Wed. Sep 13 Early Renaissance: Northern Europe Finish Chapt. 20 and begin Chapt. 21, pg. 572-611

Mond. Sep. 18 & Wed. Sep. 20

Early Renaissance: Italy


 

Two good websites on the history and nature of Humanism and Neoplatonism. See: http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/REN/HUMANISM.HTM together with

http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/REN/NEOPLATO.HTM and

http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/cgi-local/DHI/ot2www-dhi?specfile=/texts/english/dhi/dhi.o2w&act=text&offset=8744128&query=humanism&tag=HUMANISM+IN+ITALY

If this latter one is too much, try this highly edited version: History of Humanism

Mon. Sep. 25 & Wed. Sep. 27  16th c. Renaissance,
Chapt. 22, pg. 611-638

SEPT. 27: Sketches of Frank Gehry

I highly recommend this program, 9 PM, KNPB Channel 5 (And Thursday, September 28th at l AM in the morning!)

“Sketches of Frank Gehry is director Sydney Pollack's absorbing profile of architect Gehry. It includes conversations at Gehry's home, studio and construction sites; his erratic drawings and their development into completed structures." [KNPB website].

Mon. Oct 2 & Wed. Oct. 4

16th c. Renaissance - Bramante, Michelangelo, Raphael;

Chapt. 22, pg. 638-653

   

Films featuring architecture

Schedule

The Turner Classic Movie Network is offering a menu of five films each Wednesday in October. They start at 8 PM. Regrettably, they run into the wee hours, and will apparently not be repeated on any kind of alternate schedule at more believable times. However, the website information on each film is very interesting. For those of us who are not night owls or insomniacs, the films are all old enough to be rentals, and possibly some may be in the UNR Film library. Just reading the descriptions of the films is interesting.

http://www.tcm.com/2006/architectureinfilm/index.jsp

Under the thematic titles, each film has a brief summary. If you click on the title of each film, some have extensive summaries.

Mon. Oct 9 & Wed. Oct. 11

Post High Renaissance

Venice

 
Mon . Oct. 16

Durer & Germany in the 16th c. and Breugel

Chapt. 23, pg. 662-674 and 682-687

  
Wed. Oct. 18 NO CLASS FOR DOCENTS Midterm for students
Mon. Oct. 23 & Wed. Oct. 25

17th c. Baroque &

 

Chapt. 24

  
Mon. Oct. 30 18th c. Rococo, Enlightenment & Neoclassicism Chapt. 28  

Wed. Nov. 1 & Mon. Nov. 6

18th c. & 19th c, Romanticism to Realism Chapt. 28, pg. 824-851 & Chapt. 29, pg.852-866  
Wed. Nov. 8 & Mon. Nov. 13

1800-1870, Romanticism to Realism &

Architecture, 1880-1975

 Various: Chapt. 29, pg 893-901; Chapt. 33, pg. 1006-1017; Chapt. 34, pg 1059-1068

 

Wed. Nov. 15 &Mon., Nov. 21 Portraying the Modern Life: Impressionism & Post Impressionism Chapt. 29, pg. 869-893

Wed. Nov. 23 NO CLASS - Happy Thanksgiving! Travel Safely!  

Mon. Nov. 27 & Wed., Nov. 29

Europe & USA, 1900-WWII Chapt. 33

 

Mon. Dec. 4 & Wed. Dec. 5

Europe & USA, 1900-WWII Chapt. 33  
Mon. Dec 11 Post WWII Chapt. 34, pg. 1030-1040 THIS IS THE LAST CLASS FOR THE DOCENTS.