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Required Texts:
(Note to Students: Yes, there are a few texts but The World of Art is
a picture book (literally!) and the other selections (except for
Madame Bovary) are pretty short!).
   
An Anthropologist on Mars - Oliver Sacks
   
The World of Art - Sandra Forty
   
Girl with a Pearl Earring - Tracy Chevalier
   
Holy Sonnets - John Donne (handout)
   
Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
   
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
   
The Rhinoceros - Eugene Ionesco
   
Waiting for Godot - Samuel Beckett
Note: The plays by Beckett and Ionesco are in the play anthology.
   
The Samurai's Garden - Gail Tsukiyama
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Course Description and Objectives:

Literature and Art explores the ways in which art and literature relate to each other
and are influenced by the historical, philosophical, relgious, political, and
    musical--to name a few--ideas evident in the period when these works
were produced. 


Objectives:
--to view and appreciate paintings from different periods
--to analyze the different techniques used in painting and literature
--to consider literature and art from a wide variety of periods and cultures
--to explore connections between the art of painting and the art of literature
--to consider the ways that art and literature often mirror the society in which
   they are created

Grading:

Group Work and Participation ..........15%
Directed Essay No. 1..........15%
Directed Essay No. 2..........15%
Short-Answer Midterm..........15%
Take-Home Final Exam..........40%

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WEEK ONE
An Introduction to Literature and Art
--Collage (multi-media) of literature and art from early religious art to present
--Cultural perception - how does our visual orientation (pre-conceptions) inform
   the way artists create art and viewers/readers receive art?

Readings:
--"To See and Not See" - Oliver Sacks
--"The Case of the  Color-Blind Artist" - Oliver Sacks
(Both selections from
An Anthropologist on Mars)
Activities:
Introductions
Course  Overview and Explanation of Syllabus
Group work and Informal discussion

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WEEK TWO
Art as the "Subject" of Literature
Readings:

--The Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
Gallery (Paintings for Week Two):
DUTCH MASTERS:
--The Jewish Bride - Rembrandt
--Two Scholars Disputing - Rembrandt
--Belshazzar's Feast - Rembrandt, pgs. 184-5 (WOA)
--Girl with a Pearl Earring - Jan Vermeer (1632-1675)
--The Milkmaid - Jan Vermeer
--Woman Holding a Balance - Jan Vermeer
--The Lacemaker - Jan Vermeer, pg. 214 (WOA)
--A Lady Reading a Letter - Gerard Ter Borch, pg. 215 (WOA)
--Women and Maid with Pail in Courtyard - Pieter de Hooch, pg. 208 (WOA)
--The Courtyard of a House in Delft - Pieter de Hooch
Music:
Johann Sebastian Bach - Jesu, Joy of Men's Desiring
Antonio Vivaldi - Concerto for Two Trumpets, Strings, and Continuo in C

Video:
Dutch Masters: Vermeer (KULTUR VIDEO, Cromwell Films, 2000)

Activities:
Small group discussion and informal presentations
Handouts of Donne's Holy Sonnets

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WEEK THREE
ReIigious Visions/Religious Struggles
Readings:
Selected Holy Sonnets by John Donne  (1571-1631):
--"Death be Not Proud"
--"Batter my Heart, Three-Person'd God"
--"At the round earths imagin'd corners, blow"
--"I am a little world made cunningly"
Gallery (Paintings for Week 3)
Leonardo Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael, Tintoretto, El Greco, Grunewald
--The Last Supper - da Vinci, pgs.88-89 (WOA)
--Sistine Chapel (Creation of Adam) - Michelangelo, pg. 105 (WOA)
--The Holy Trinity - El Greco, pg. 151 (WOA)
--Crucifixion - Matthias Grunewald
--Virgin of the Rocks - da Vinci
--The Last Judgment - Michelangelo
--The Alba Madonna - Raphael
--The Last Supper -  Tintoretto
--Christ at the Sea of Galilee - Tintoretto
--Madonna and Child with St. Martina and St. Agnes - El Greco
--Laocoon - El Greco

Music:
William Byrd - Praeludium
Claudio Monteverdi - Due Belli Occhi
Video:
Excerpt from WIT starring Emma Thompson
Activities:
Discussion
Explanation of Directed Essay Assignment and Handout of Topics

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WEEK FOUR
Light, Landscape, Realism, and Impressionism
Readings:

--Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880)
Gallery (Paintings for Week 4):
On the Terrace - Pierre-Auguste  Renoir
Oarsmen at Chatou  - Renoir
Impression at Sunset - Claude Monet
Waterlilies - Monet
Le Dejeuner sur L'herbes - Edouart Manet
Bar at Folies Bergere - Manet
Spring in Blossom - Camille Pissarro
In the Garden - Pissarro
The Gleaners - Jean-Francois Millet (WOA, p. 335)
The Angelus - Millet (WOA, p. 336)
On the Beach - Manet (WOA, p. 374)
Wild Poppies - Monet (WOA, p. 379)
At the Theatre  - Renoir (WOA, p. 383)
The Umbrellas - Renoir (WOA, p. 401)

Music:
Frederik Chopin - Nocturne 1 in B-Flat Minor, Op. 9, No. 1
Robert Schumann (1810-1856) - Traumerei

Video:
Excerpt from Madame Bovery. Directed by Claude Chabrol. Los Angeles, CA: Republic
Pictures Home Video, 1992 , c1990
Activities:
Discusssion
Directed Essay no. 1 Due


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WEEK FIVE

Naturalism, Modernism, Primitivism, and Jean-Jacques
Rousseau

Readings
:
--Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad (1857-1924)
Gallery
(Paintings for Week 5)
Contes Barbare - Paul Gauguin
Where do we Come from? What Are We? Where
Are We Going? - Paul Gauguin
The White Horse - Paul Gauguin
Market Day - Paul Gauguin
Nave, Nave Moe - Paul Gauguin
Les Demoiselles D'Avignons - Pablo Picasso
African Mask - artist unknown
Sleeping Gypsy - Henri Rousseau
The Dream - Henri Rousseau
Woman Walking in an Exotic Forest - Henri Roussea
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The Scream - Edvard Munch (WOA, p. 429)
The Dance - Henri Matisse (WOA, p. 460)
Head of a Woman - Alexej von Jawlensky (WOA, p. 463)
Guernica - Pablo Picasso (WOA, pp. 492-93)

Music:
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)
The Rite of Spring (1913)
Ritual of the Rival Tribes
Video:
Excerpts from The Heart of Darkness or Apocalypse Now
Activities:
Group discussion and informal presentations
Short Answer Midterm
Topics for Directed Essay no. 2 assigned

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WEEK SIX

The Absurd, Abstract, and Postmodern

Readings
:
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-The Rhinoceros by Eugene Ionesco (1912-1994)
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-Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett (1906-1989)
Gallery
(Paintings for Week 6)
Small Pleasures - Wassily Kandinsky - pg. 471 (WOA)
Composition with a Grid 8 - Piet Mondrian - pg. 479 (WOA)
Jackson Pollock - Composition, pg. 503 (WOA)
Dragonfly with Red Wings Chasing a Serpent Which Slips Away in a Spiral
   Towards the Comet - Joan Miro, pg. 504 (WOA)
Large Interior - Lucien Freud, pg. 511
The Fall - Rene Magritte
L'art de Vivre - Rene Magritte
Le reconnaissance Infinie - Rene Magritte
Nocturne - Joan Miro
Diana in the Autumn Wind - Paul Klee
Death and Fire - Paul Klee
Mark Rothko - Untitled (Black and Gray
)
Music
:
John Cage

Video
:
Excerpts from 1992 production of
Waiting for Godot
Activities:
Directed Essay no. 2 Due
Group Work and Informal presentations

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WEEK SEVEN

Eastern Art and Philosophy

Readings
:
-
-The Samurai's Garden - Gail Tsukiyama
Gallery
(Paintings for Week 7)
Bamboo - Xu Wei
Peony - Yun Shouping
Carp and Moth - unknown
Utagava Toyokuni - Beauty with Blooming Plum

Music:
To be announced

Video
:
To be announced

Activities:
Discussion
Overview and Review of Course
Take-Home Exam handed out and explained

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WEEK EIGHT

Overview

Evaluations
Discussions on Take-Home Exam Answers






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SYLLABUS
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ART GALLERY:

Gallery for Week Two - Dutch Masters - Color and Light
Gallery for Week Three - Religious Visions/Religious Struggles
Gallery for Week Four - Light, Landscape, Realism and Impressionism
Gallery for Week Five - Naturalism, Modernism, Primitivism, and
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Gallery for Week Six - The Absurd, Abstract and Postmodern
Gallery for Week Seven - Eastern Art and Philosophy

Note: To listen to the musical pieces referred to below, go to The Classical
Archives at 
http://www.classicalarchives.com/

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Literature and Art - ENG 385 el
Dr. Kristi Siegel

NDH 249 (Smart Classroom)
Tuesdays - 6:00 - 9:50 pm
Mount Mary College
2900 North Menomonee River Parkway
Milwaukee, WI  53222
#461, Fidelis Hall 223