Admission requirements
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Description
The reading list focuses on a discipline and/or period of specialisation. These specialisations and/or periods are:
Art of the Late Middle Ages and Early Modern Period
Architecture
Modern and Contemporary Art, and World Art Studies
Art and Material Culture of Asia
Decorative Arts, Industrial Design and the Domestic Interior
Museums and Collections
Course objectives
- Acquire further methodological and theoretical knowledge of disclipline or period of specialisation on a higher academic level
Timetable
See timetable MA semester 1
Mode of instruction
Self study
Assessment method
take home-tentamen
oral exam
Blackboard
Reading lists will be available on blackboard also before August 1 2010.
Required reading READING LIST MA Specialisation Modern Contemporary Art
Modern and Contemporary Art/World Art Studies
(uit edited boeken kunnen in overleg met de betrokken docent ook delen worden gelezen / in consultation with the concerning instructor from edited book also parts can be selected)
19thC:
T.J. Clark, The Painting of Modern Life. Paris in the art of Manet and his followers. London: Thames and Hudson 1985.
General on art since 1945:
A Companion to Contemporary Art since 1945. Ed. Amelia Jones. London: Blackwell 2006 (628 pp.)
The Fall of the Studio. Artists at Work. Eds. Wouter Davidts, Kim Paice. Amsterdam: Valiz 2009 (75 of the 244 pp.)
Art and the Moving Image. A Critical Reader. Ed. Tanya Leighton. London: Tate 2008 (75 of the 496 pp.)
Canons:
Partisan Canons. Ed. Anna Brzyski. Durham/London: Duke University Press 2007 (370 pp)
Museums:
Exhibiting Cultures. The Poetics and Politics of Museum Display. Ed. Ivan Karp and Steven D. Lavine. Washington: Smithsonian 1990.
Thinking about Exhibitions. Ed, Reesa Greenberg, Bruce W. Ferguson and Sandy Nairne. London/New York: Routledge 1996.
Museum Frictions. Public Cultures/Global transformations. Ed. Ivan Karp, et al. Durham/London: Duke U Press 2006.
The Global Art World. Audiences, Markets, and Museums. Ed. Hans Belting & Andrea Buddensieg. Ostfildern: HatjeCantz ism ZKM Karlsruhe 2009.
World Art Studies:
World Art Studies. Exploring Concepts and Approaches. Ed. Kitty Zijlmans and Wilfried van Damme. Amsterdam: Valiz 2008.
Charlotte Bydler, The Global Art World Inc. On the globalization of contemporary art. Upsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis 2004 (Figura Nova Series).
Art & Science
Siân Ede, Art & Science. London/New York: I.B. Tauris 2005
CO-OPs. Interterritoriale verkenningen in kunst en wetenschap / Exploring new territories in art and science. Work in progress, eds. Kitty Zijlmans, Rob Zwijnenberg, Krien Clevis, Amsterdam: Buitenkant 2007.
READING LIST MA Specialisation Decorative Arts and Industrial Design
(5 ec; July 1, 2010; coordinator Marjan Groot).
Personal selection of 650 pages from the following list (please email your selection to the coordinator)
General Theory
John A. Walker, Design History and the History of Design, London: Pluto, 1989. [Leiden University Library:
902=1989-Wal]
‘Introduction’, in: Isabelle Frank (ed.), The theory of decorative art. An Anthology of European and American writings, 1750-1940, New Haven/Londen 2000. [Leiden University Library: 90=2000-Fra]
Webb Keane, ‘Signs are not the Garb of Meaning: On the Social Analysis of Material Things’, in Daniel Miller (ed), Materiality, Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2005, pp. 182-205. [PDf on Blackboard]
Methods and Approaches
Arjun Appadurai (ed.), The social life of things. Commodities in cultural perspective, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986. [321 p; Leiden University Library]
Bjornar Olsen, ‘Scenes from a troubled engagement. Post-Structuralism and Material Culture Studies’, in: Christopher Tilley, Webb Keane, Susanne Küchler, Michael Rowlands, Patricia Spyer (eds), Handbook of Material Culture, Londen/Thousand Oaks/New Delhi: Sage Publications, 2006.
Interior design
Peter Thornton, Authentic Decor. The Domestic Interior 1620-1920, London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1985. [400 p; Leiden University Library]
Trevor Lummis and Jan Marsh, The Woman’s Domain. Women and the English Country House, London: Penguin Books, 1993. [215 p.]
Inga Bryden and Janet Floyd, Domestic Space. Reading the nineteenth-century interior, Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 1999. [209 p.; Leiden University Library]
Katherine C. Grier, Culture & Comfort.Parlor Making and Middle-class indentity, 1850-1930, Washington/London: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1988. [257 p.; Leiden University Library]
Penny Sparke, The Modern Interior, London: Reaktion Books, 2008. [233 p; Leiden University Library.]
Objects and things
Marius Kwint, Christopher Breward, Jeremy Aynsley (eds), Material Memories. Design and Evocation, Oxford/New York: Berg, 1999. [257 p; choice from essays]
Claire I R O’Mahony (ed), Symbolist Objects: Materiality and Subjectivity at the Fin de Siècle. High Wycombe: The Rivendale Press, 2009. [433 pages, a selection of essays; Leiden University Library]
Gender
Adrian Forty, Objects of Desire. Design and Society 1750-1980, London: Thames and Hudson/Cameron Books, 1989, Chapter 4 ‘Differentiation in Design’, pp. 62-92. [Leiden University Library: 902-XVIII/XX=1986-For]
Ellen Lupton, Mechanical Brides. Woman and Machines from Home to Office, Cooper-Hewitt National Museum of Design Smithsonian Institution, New York (Princeton Architectural Press) 1993, ‘Sex objects’, pp. 7-15.
Trevor Lummis and Jan Marsh, The Woman’s Domain. Women and the English Country House, London: Penguin Books, 1993. [215 p.]
Ornament
P. Thornton, Form & Decoration, Innovation in the Decorative Arts 1470-1870, London 1998: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, Chapter 9 ‘Amsterdam 1610-1670’, pp. 92-101. [Leiden University Library: 91=1998-Tho P]
Commerce
Carolyn Sargentson, Merchants and Luxury Markets. The Marchands Merciers of Eigteenth-Century Paris, London 1996: Victoria and Albert Museum/J. Paul Getty Museum, Chapter 3, ‘The Mercers’ Role in Design’, pp. 44-62. [Leiden University Library: 90-XVIII=1996-Sar]
Clive Edwards, ‘Furnishing a Home at the Turn of The Century: The Use of Furnishing Estimates from 1875 to 1910, Journal of Design History (1991) 4, pp. 233-239.
Cross-Cultural and Colonialism
John M. MacKenzie, Orientalism. History, theory and the arts, Manchester/New York: Manchester University Press, 1995, Chapter 5 ‘Orientalism in design’, pp. 105-137. [232 p.; Leiden University Library]
Anna Jackson, Amin Jaffer (ed), Encounters: the meeting of Asia and Europe 1500-1800, London: V&A Publications, 2004. [395 p; Leiden University Library]
John Michael Vlach, The Brazilian House in Nigeria: The Emergence of a 20th-Century Vernacular House Type, The Journal of American Folklore, vol. 97, No. 383 (Jan-March, 1984), pp. 3-23. [Via JSTOR]
READING LIST MA TRACK ART OF THE LATE MIDDLE AGES AND EARLY MODERN PERIOD
Students should select a minimum of 750 pages and submit their choice to the coördinator for the period or discipline of specialisation
Hans Belting. Die Oberkirche von San Francesco in Assisi. Ihre Dekoration als Aufgabe und die Genese einer neuen Wandmalerei (Berlin 1977)
Anton Boschloo. The Limits of Artistic Freedom. Criticism of Art in Italy from 1500 to 1800 (Leiden 2008)
Werner Busch. Das sentimentalische Bild. Die Krise der Kunst im 18. Jahrhundert und die Geburt der Moderne (München 1993)
Miranda Carter. Anthony Blunt. His Lives (New York 2001)
Wayne Franits. Looking at seventeenth-century Dutch art: realism reconsidered (Cambridge 1997)
Davids Freedberg. The Power of Images. Studies in the history and theory of response (Chicago 1989)
Francis Haskell. History and its Images. Art and the Interpretation of the Past (New Haven & London 1993)
Thomas Kirchner. L’expression des passions. Ausdruck als Darstellungsproblem in der französichen Kunst und Kunsttheorie des 17. Und 18. Jahrhunderts (Mainz 1991)
Jennifer Montagu. The expression of the passions. The origin and influence of Charles Le Brun’s Conférence sur l’expression générale et particulière (New Haven & London 1994)
Dora & Erwin Panofsky. Pandora’s Box. The Changing Aspects of a Mythical Symbol (New York 1956)
Patricia Rubin. Giorgio Vasari: Art and History (New Haven 1995)
Manfredo Tafuri. Venice and the Renaissance (Cambridge & London 1995; Torino 19851)
Henk Th. van Veen. Cosimo I de’Medici and his self-representation in Florentine art and culture (Cambridge 2006)
Prent- en tekenkunst
Philippe Kaenel & Rolf Reichardt. Interkulturelle Kommunikation in der Europäischen Druckgraphik im 18. Und 19. Jahrhundert/The European print and cultural transfer in the 18th and 19th centuries/Gravure et communication interculturelle en Europe aux 18e et 19e siècles (Hildesheim & Zürich & New York 2007)
Michiel Plomp. Hartstochtelijk verzameld, 18de-eeuwse Hollandse verzamelaars van tekeningen en hun collecties 2 vols. (Parijs 2001)
READING LIST MA TRACK HISTORY & THEORY OF ARCHITECTURE
31 August 2010
Please note that this list is not an enumeration of the books the architectural history staff feels every student in the Leiden art history MA should know; nor does it pretend to give a complete overview of the current state of architectural history. Instead, the list offers a number of the books and articles that have played an important role in shaping the way architectural history is practised in Leiden, and offers backgrounds to, and connections between, the main courses offered in the architectural history and theory track offered here.
The list is divided into periods and an architectural theory section. At the moment, the Middle Ages and 20th-century section are still somewhat underrepresented, but titles will be added in the near future. Students who wish to specialize in architecture should choose one book or article from each period and the theory section, with a minimum of 750 pp. They should submit their choice to the Professor of architectural history, and discuss how the list can best be adapted to their choice of courses and subject of their MA thesis. The exam consists of a paper or oral examination. This will also be determined when discussing the specialization. If you have any questions, and to submit your choice of titles, contact prof. dr C.A. van Eck at c.a.van.eck@hum.leidenuniv.nl. Happy reading!
I. Antiquity and Middle Ages – M. Wilson-Jones, Principles of Roman Architecture, New Haven and London 2000 – J. Onians, Bearers of Meaning. The Orders in Antiquity, the Middle Ages and Renaissance, Cambridge and New York 1988.
II. 1400 – 1600 – J. Ackerman, ‘Ars sine scientia nihil est”: Gothic Theory of Architecture at the Cathedral in Milan’, Art Bulletin 31 (1949), pp. 84-111; reprinted in idem, Distance Points. Essays in Theory and Renaissance Art and Architecture, Cambridge, Mass. 1994, pp. 211-269. To be read in combination with: – M. Cohen, “How Much Brunelleschi? A Late Medieval Proportional System in the Basilica of San Lorenzo in Florence” and “Postscript: A Disciplinary Triad,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 67, no. 1 (March 2008), 18-57. – C. Smith, Architecture in the Culture of Early Humanism, Oxford 1992. – The articles on architecture in M. Cole (ed.), Blackwell Anthologies in Art History. Sixteenth Century Italian Art, Malden and Oxford 2006. – J. Shearman, Only Connect. Art and the Spectator in the Italian Renaissance, Princeton 1988.
III. 1600 – 1750 – R. Wittkower, Art and Architecture in Italy 1600 – 1750. Revised by J. Connors and J. Montagu, New Haven and London 1999. – L. Gent (ed.), Albion’s Classicism, New Haven and London 1999. – The articles on architecture in S. Dixon (ed.), Blackwell Anthologies in Art History. The Baroque, Malden and Oxford 2008.
IV. 1750 – 2000 – B. Bergdoll, European Architecture 1750-1890, Oxford 2000. – H. Mallgrave, Gottfried Semper. Architect of the Nineteenth Century, New Haven and London 1993. – J. Mordaunt Crook, The Dilemma of Style. Architectural Ideas from the Picturesque to Post-Modernism, London 1989. – A. Payne, ‘Rudolf Wittkower and Architectural Principles in the Age of Modernism’, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 54 (September 1994). – A. van der Woud, Waarheid en Karakter, Rotterdam 1997; English translation The Art of Building. The Architectural Debate in the Netherlands, 1840-1900, Aldershot 2003. – H. Heynen et al. (eds.), Dat is Architectuur! Sleutelteksten uit de 20e eeuw, Rotterdam 2001.
V. Architectural Theory – Vitruvius, Ten Books on Architectural Theory. Edited by Ingrid D. Rowland and Thomas Noble Howe, Cambridge and New York 1999. – L.B. Alberti, On the Art of Building in Ten Books. Translated by Joseph Rykwert, Neil Leach and Robert Tavernor, Cambridge, Mass., 1988. To be read in combination with: – A. Grafton, Leon Battista Alberti, Renaissance Man, Harmondsworth 2004. – D. Watkin (ed.), Sir John Soane. The Academy Lectures, Cambridge and New York 1994. – N.Leach (ed.), Rethinking Architecture. A Reader in Cultural Theory, London 1997.
READING LIST
MA-TRACK MUSEUMS & COLLECTIONS
Minimum of 750 pages to choose from:
EARLY MODERN
Ken Arnold. Cabinets for the Curious. Looking Back at Early English Museums. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006.
Lorraine Daston & Katharine Park. Wonders and the Order of Nature, 1150-1750. New York: Zone Books, 1998.
Paula Findlen. Possessing Nature. Museums, Collecting, and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Italy. Berkeley/Los Angeles/London: University of California Press, 1994.
Andreas Grote (ed.). Macrocosmos in microcosmo. Die Welt in der Stube. Zur Geschichte des Sammelns 1450 bis 1800. Opladen: Leske & Budrich, 1994: pp. 11-17; pp. 21-126; pp. 129-281.
Krzysztof Pomian. Collectors and curiosities. Paris and Venice, 1500-1800. Cambridge: Polity Press, 1990.
MODERN
Exhibiting Cultures. The Poetics and Politics of Museum Display. Ed. Ivan Karp and Steven D. Lavine. Washington: Smithsonian 1990.
Thinking about Exhibitions. Ed, Reesa Greenberg, Bruce W. Ferguson and Sandy Nairne. London/New York: Routledge 1996.
Museum Frictions. Public Cultures/Global transformations. Ed. Ivan Karp, et al. Durham/London: Duke U Press 2006.
The Global Art World. Audiences, Markets, and Museums. Ed. Hans Belting & Andrea Buddensieg. Ostfildern: HatjeCantz ism ZKM Karlsruhe 2009.
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