ART HIST 2I03 & ART HIST 3S03: Monday November 18

Please know that today's ART HIST 2I03 & ART HIST 3S03 classes (Monday November 18) will be cancelled. We will resume on Wednesday November 20. ART HIST 4E03 will be conducted at 3:30 pm as scheduled.

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ART HIST 2A03 / CMST 2I03: Spike Lee's Bamboozled

W.J.T. Mitchell discusses Spike Lee's film Bamboozled (2000) at length. In this satirical film Lee addresses racial stereotypes and the power of stereotypical and offensive images to endure (like 'living images').

You can watch the film here:

Bamboozled

ART HIST 3S03: Black Death Documentary

Here is the Black Death documentary presented in class, Monday Oct. 21:

ART HIST 4E03: Readings for Monday Oct. 28

Hello everyone,

I have the first of the readings for next week. Keisha's selected reading is the following:

John B. Lord, "Expanding the Heritage of Marketing Thought: The Significance of Martin Luther's Treatise Trade and Usury (1524)," (1989).

http://faculty.quinnipiac.edu/CHARM/CHARM%20proceedings/CHARM%20article%20archive%20pdf%20format/Volume%203%201987/32%20lord.pdf

Callie's reading is the following:

Galloway, J.H. "What Did the Dutch Have to Do with Sugar in the Caribbean?" In Major Problems in Atlantic History, edited by Alison F. Games and Adam Rothman, 216-222. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2008.

"What Did the Dutch Have to Do with Sugar in the Caribbean?"

ART HIST 2I03: Gattamelata

Since the question had been asked in class this morning... Gattamelata was the nickname of Erasmo da Narni.

ART HIST 4E03: Readings for October 21

Hello everyone,

The readings have been slowly coming in this week. I am posting as they arrive. The first is from Alex: 

Schmidt, B. “Mapping an Empire: Cartographic and Colonial Rivalry in Seventeenth-Century Dutch and English North America” The William and Mary Quarterly , Third Series, Vol. 54, No. 3 (Jul., 1997), Published by: Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture. pp. 549-578.

http://www.jstor.org.libaccess.lib.mcmaster.ca/stable/2953839?&Search=yes&searchText=benjamin&searchText=empire&searchText=mapping&searchText=schmidt&list=hide&searchUri=%2Faction%2FdoAdvancedSearch%3Fq0%3Dmapping%2Ban%2Bempire%26f0%3Dall%26c1%3DAND%26q1%3Dbenjamin%2Bschmidt%26f1%3Dall%26acc%3Don%26wc%3Don%26fc%3Doff%26Search%3DSearch%26sd%3D%26ed%3D%26la%3D%26pt%3D%26isbn%3D&prevSearch=&item=1&ttl=764&returnArticleService=showFullText

Daniela's reading is now in:

Luxury and Calvinism/ Luxury and Capitalism: Supply and Demand for Luxury Goods in the
Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic
Author(s): Jan de Vries
Source: The Journal of the Walters Art Gallery, Vol. 57, Place and Culture in Northern Art
(1999), pp. 73-85

http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/20169143?uid=3739448&uid=2&uid=3737720&uid=4&sid=21102771493131

ART HIST 3S03: Test Study List

First of all... many thanks to Toshawb Wilson for notifying me of a display problem with this post. I believe this issue is now rectified. Please find below the list of images for the upcoming test  (Friday, Oct. 18). In light of the fact that the initial post did not display I am going to provide the identifications (including dates) on the test. You should still be familiar with each of the works listed below so that you can respond effectively to the questions. The format for the test has been discussed in an earlier post on this blog (see: http://acabinetofcuriosities1.blogspot.ca/2013/09/art-hist-3s03-test-and-assignment.html)


Apse Mosaic with Christ and San Vitale (San Vitale, Ravenna)
Court of Justinian mosaic (San Vitale, Ravenna)
Cimabue, Madonna and Child Enthroned
Christ Pantocrator, Cathedral of Monreale, Palermo
Baptism of Christ mosaic, Hosios Loukas
Pietro Cavallino, Last Judgment fresco (Santa Cecilia, Rome)
Giotto, Ognissanti Madonna
Giotto, Kiss of Judas (Scrovegni Chapel, Padua)
Giotto, Last Judgment (Scrovegni Chapel, Padua)
Giotto, St. Francis Preaching to the Birds (San Francesco, Assisi)
Giotto, The Mourning of St. Francis (Bardi Chapel, Santa Croce, Florence)
Duccio, Maesta (Siena)
Coppo di Marcovaldo, mosaic of Christ (Baptistry, Florence)
Andrea Orcagna, Strozzi Altarpiece (Santa Maria Novella, Florence)