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ART 229-01
-- Women & Art in the Middle Ages
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Spring, 2004
Dr. Michael Tinkler
Houghton House #103; 3489
T-Th 3:05-4:30
Office Hours: W, 1:00-4:00
OR BY APPOINTMENT!
Goals
This course will range broadly in chronology and approach to consider women and
art in the middle ages in three ways:
Woman as art maker
Woman as art buyer
Woman as art subject
These three relationships between the two subjects of the course are active
throughout the middle ages. We will study the changes in the
relationships. To support our understanding of medieval society we will
use two histories -- a modern secondary history of the period, Anderson &
Zinsser, and a collection of primary sources, Amt. A variety of xeroxed
materials will fill in gaps and strengthen particular emphases. Audio and
literary resources, in the examples of Hildegard von Bingen and Christine de
Pizan, will help us consider media other than the visual arts.
Requirements
attendance and participation -- 10%
2 sets of essays, 8-10 pages each -- 50%
You will be given a choice of topics, which will require you to synthesize class materials, text and reserve readings, and your own ideas. The first essay set will be revisable, after an appointment with me.
6 quizzes -- 30%
these quizzes will be brief slide quizzes, on Fridays
final exam
reserve reading
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Because there is no art text for this course you must study the slides regularly. I will put slides on reserve after each class. Reserve readings will be essential.
Attendance Policy
Attendance: of course if you don't attend you
won't do very well. Visual material will often seem very different in
color and in large scale on the wall from its appearance in black and white in
a small paperback book, so if you don't see both, your work will suffer.
For each class you miss you will write a three-page
double-spaced typed discussion of 2 of the slides from that class day in
response to the readings. Failure to produce this work within 1 week of
the absence will reduce your participation grade by 2 points.
Required Resources
Anderson, Bonnie S., and Judith P. Zinsser. A History of Their Own :
Women in Europe from Prehistory to the Present.
Amt, Emilie. Women's Lives in Medieval Europe : A Sourcebook
Gold, Penny Schine. Lady and the Virgin; Image, Attitude, and
Experience in Twelfth-Century France
Christine de Pizan, Jeffrey Richards, trans. The Book of the City of
Ladies
If you have never taken art history before
You need to learn how to look seriously at pictures and you need to learn how
to study them. Come and talk to me at our earliest mutual convenience --
the quizzes start on Friday the 14th.
Online Image Reviews via the VRC
(within the HWS firewall only)