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DEPARTMENT OF ART HISTORY COMPREHENSIVE EXAM READING LIST:
GENERAL AREAS FOR COMPS PART I
This list supplements what we assume of students entering their Comprehensive exams, namely knowledge of key canonical works gained from undergraduate-level studies and of the more specialized areas presented by their graduate coursework and interests. The following books have been placed on 24-hour reserve under ARTH 291 and in some cases are available through King Library as e-books.
Comprehensive Exams, Part I: RECOMMENDED READING LIST
GENERAL READING LIST (General survey textbooks for survey-level information and memorization of images):
Arnason, H. Harvard. History of Modern Art: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Photography. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 2004.
Gardner, Helen (d. 1946), Fred S. Kleiner and Christin J. Mamiya. Gardner's Art through the Ages: A Concise History. Australia; United States: Thomson/Wadsworth, c2006.
Honour, Hugh and John Fleming. The Visual Arts: A History. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, [2002]
Stokstad, Marilyn in collaboration with David Cateforis. Art History. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson/Prentice Hall, c2005.
On-Line Resources: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/intro/atr/print.htm
GENERAL BIBLIOGRAPHY BY AREA:
Non-Western:
O'Riley, Michael Kampen. Art Beyond the West: The Arts of Africa, India and Southeast Asia, China, Japan and Korea, the Pacific, and the Americas. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 2006.
Greece:
Pollitt, Jerome Jordan. Art and Experience in Classical Greece. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1972).
Pedley, John Griffiths. Greek Art and Archaelogy, 3rd ed. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 1998.
Roman:
Henderson, John and Mary Beard, Hellenistic and Early Roman Art. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.
Kleiner, Fred S. A History of Roman Art. Belmont, CA: Thomson-Wadsworth, 2007.
Medieval:
Luttikhuizen, Henry and Dorothy Verkerk, Snyder's Medieval Art, rev. 2nd ed. 2005. (Ordered 11/27/06.) NOTE: 1st ed. is not an acceptable resource.
suggested for thematic approach:
Elsner, Jas. Imperial Rome and Christian Triumph: The Art of the Roman Empire AD 100-450. Oxford History of Art. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.
+ other books listed below under “European Middle Ages”
Northern Renaissance:
Snyder, James, Larry Silver and Henry Luttikhuizen, Northern Renaissance Art, rev. 2nd ed. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 2004. NOTE: 1st ed. is not up to date.
suggested for thematic approach:
Harbison, Craig. The Mirror of the Artist: Northern Renaissance Art. New York, N.Y.: H. N. Abrams: Prentice Hall, 1995, 2003.
Renaissance in Italy; Baroque
Welch, Evelyn. Art and society in Italy, 1350-1500. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 1997).
Harris, Ann Sutherland. Seventeenth-Century Art and Architecture. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2005.
suggested for thematic approach:
Minor, Vernon Hyde. Baroque and Rococo: Art and Culture. Prentice Hall, 2003.
Rococo, Neoclassicism, Romanticism:
Craske, Matthew. Art in Europe, 1700-1830: A History of the Visual Arts in an Era of Unprecedented Urban Economic Growth. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.
Impressionism through Modern Art:
Brettell, Richard R. Modern Art, 1851-1929: Capitalism and Representation. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
Harrison, Charles and Paul Wood, eds. Art in Theory, 1900-1990: An Anthology of Changing Ideas. Oxford, UK; Cambridge, Mass., USA: Blackwell, 1993.
Joachimides, Christos M. and Norman Rosenthal, eds., The Age of Modernism: Art in the 20th Century. Berlin: Zeitgeist-Gesellschaft e.V.; Ostfildern-Ruit [Germany]: G. Hatje; New York, N.Y.: Distributed in the US by Distributed Art Publishers, 1997.
American Art:
Bjelajac, David. American Art: A Cultural history. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2005); heavily focused on social theory
--or--
Pohl, Francis K. Framing America: A Social History of American Art. New York, N.Y.: Thames & Hudson, 2002.
Upton, Dell. Architecture in the United States. World of Art Series. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 1998).
Contemporary:
Jones, Amelia, ed. A Companion to Contemporary Art since 1945. Blackwell Press, 2006. (Ordered 11/27/06.)
Kocur, Zoya and Simon Leung. Theory in Contemporary Art since 1985. Ed.. Malden, MA: Blackwell Pub., 2005.
Stiles, Kristine and Peter Selz, eds. Theories and Documents in Contemporary Art: A Sourcebook of Artists' Writings. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996.
Theory and Methodology:
Hatt, Michael and Charlotte Klonk. Art History: A Critical Introduction to Its Methods. Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2006. (Ordered 11/27/06.)
Nelson, Robert S. and Richard Shiff, eds. Critical Terms for Art History. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996.
Preziosi, Donald. The Art of Art History: A Critical Anthology. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. Also available as an e-book.
ADDITIONAL BASIC BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Reference Resources:
Marmor, Max and Alex Ross. Guide To The Literature Of Art History 2. Chicago: American Library Association, 2005.
Jones, Lois Swan. Art Information and the Internet. How to Find It, How to Use It). Phoenix, Ariz.: Oryx Press, 1999. Also available as an e-book.
Style Manuals for Additional Basic Bibliography:
Kate L. Turabian, A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996.
The Chicago Manual of Style, 15th ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003.
Art Bulletin style guide (useful for caption formatting):
http://www.collegeart.org/artbulletin/guidelines.html