Art History (BA Hons) and Gallery
and Museum Studies (minor)
Dr.
Stephanie Pratt
ART HISTORY COURSE (PART OF COMBINED ARTS PROGRAMME)
Contents:
Myths of Primitivism –
Level 1
Collecting and Exhibiting Cultures
in the 19th Century – Level 2/3
Select
Bibliography
Barker, Emma (ed), Contemporary Cultures of Display (New
Haven: Yale University Press, 1999)
Clifford, James, The Predicament of Culture: Twentieth
Century Ethnography, Literature and
Art
(Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1988)
Connelly, Frances S.,
The Sleep of Reason. Primitivism in
Modern European Art and
Aesthetics,
1725 – 1907 (University Park, Pennsylvania: The
Pennsylvania University
Press, 1995)
Fusco, Coco, The bodies that were not ours and
other writings (London: Routledge, 2001)
Goldwater, Robert, Primitivism in Modern Art (Cambridge,
Mass:Harvard University Press,
1986) (first
published, 1938)
Gomez-Pena,
Guillermo, Dangerous Border Crosser
(London: Routledge, 2000)
Hiller, Susan, The Myth of Primitivism. Perspectives on art,
edited and compiled by Susan
Hiller (London:
Routledge, 1991)
Mackenzie, John, Orientalism. History, Theory and the Arts
(Manchester: Manchester
University Press,
1995)
MacMaster,
Gerald, “Museums and Galleries as Sites
for artistic Intervention,” in The
Subjects of Art History. Historical Objects
In Contemporary Perspective, edited
by Mark A. Cheetham,
Michael Ann Holly, and Keith Moxey (Cambridge, New York,
Melbourne: Cambridge
University Press, 1998), pp. 250 – 261.
Malbert, Roger, Exotic Europeans, exhibition catalogue
(London: South Bank Centre,
1991)
Malraux, André, Picasso’s Mask, translated and annotated
by June Guicharnaud, with
Jacques Guicharnaud
(New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1976)
Mansfield, Elizabeth
(ed), Art History and its institutions.
Foundations of a discipline (London
and New York:
Routledge, 2002)
Mason, Peter, Infelicities. Representations of the Exotic
(Baltimore and London: The John
Hopkins University
Press, 1998)
Otten, Charlotte M
(ed), Anthropology and Art. Readings in
Cross-cultural Aesthetics,
published for the
American Museum of Natural History. (Garden City, New York: The Natural History
Press, 1971)
Preziosi, Donald, The Art
of Art History: A critical anthology (Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 1998)
Price, Sally, Primitive
Art in Civilised Places (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989)
Rubin, William (ed), Primitivism in Twentieth Century Art:
Affinity of the Tribal and the
Modern, 2 vols (New York:
Museum of Modern Art; Boston: New York Graphic Society Books, 1984)
Simpson, Moira G., Making Representations. Museums in the
Post-Colonial Era, rev. ed.
(London and New York:
Routledge, 1996, 2001)
Torgovnick, Marianna,
Gone Primitive. Savage Intellects and
Modern Lives (Chicago and
London: University of
Chicago Press, 1990)
Travel Narratives
Griaule, Marcel, Conversations with Ogotemmêli: An
introduction to Dogon religious ideas,
with an introduction
by Germaine Dieterlen, London: Oxford University Press, 1965
Art and Culture
Coombes, Annie E., Reinventing Africa. Museums, Material
Culture and Popular Imagination
in Late Victorian and Edwardian England (New
Haven and London: Yale University
Press, 1994)
Fry, Jacqueline, The Art and Peoples of Black Africa,
with a preface by Michel Leiris,
Translated by Carol
F. Jopling. (New York: Dutton, 1974)
Grunne, Bernard de, The Birth of Art in Africa. Nok Statuary in
Nigeria, exhibition catalogue
from exhibition held at the Banque Générale du Luxembourg, Paris. (Société nouvelle Adam Biro, 1999)
Phillips, Tom, Africa. The Art of a Continent,
Introduction by Tom Phillips, catalogue of the
exhibition held at
the Royal Academy of Arts, London, Munich, London, New York and the Royal
Academy of Arts (Prestel Verlag, 1999)
Vogel, Susan, Art/artifact: African Art in Anthropology
Collections (New York: Center for
African Art, 1988)
Willett, Frank, African Art: An introduction, Revised
edition (New York: Thames and Hudson,
1994)
Travel Narratives
Gauguin, Paul, “Avant et Après,” in The Writings of a Savage, edited by Daniel Guérin,
Introduction by Wayne
Andersen. Translated by Eleanor Levieux. (New York: Viking, 1978)
Joppien, Rudiger and
Bernard Smith, The Art of Captain Cook’s
Voyages, 3 vols. (New
Haven: Yale
University Press, 1988)
Art and Culture
Kaeppler, Adrienne,
and Christian Kaufmann, Oceanic Art
(New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1997)
Thomas, Nicholas, Oceanic Art. (London: Thames and Hudson,
1995)
Aratjara. Art of the First Australians: Traditional
and Contemporary Works by Aboriginal
and
Torres Straits Islander Artists (Dumont Buchverlag,
1993)
Travel Narratives
Catlin, George, Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs,
and Conditions of North American Indians, 2 vols (New York: Dover
Publications, 1973; first published,
London, 1844)
Chateaubriand,
François-René de, Travels in America,
translated by Richard Switzer
(Lexington:
University of Kentucky Press, 1969)
Art and Culture
Berlo, Janet
Catherine and Ruth B. Phillips, Native
North American Art (Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 1998)
Clifton, James A.
(ed), The Invented Indian. Cultural
fictions and government policies (New
Brunswick and London:
Transaction Publishers, 1990)
Coe, Ralph T., Sacred Circles: two thousand years of North
American Indian art, exhibition
organised by the Arts
Council of Great Britain (London: Hayward Gallery, 1977)
Feest, Christian F., Native Arts of North America, updated
edition. (New York: Thames and
Hudson, 1992)
Honour, Hugh, The New Golden Land. European Images of
America from the Discoveries to
the
present time
(New York: Pantheon, 1975)
Honour, Hugh, The European Vision of America,
exhibition catalogue (Cleveland: Cleveland
Museum of Art, 1975)
Meuli, Jonathan, Shadow House. Interpretations of Northwest
Coast Art (Amsterdam:
Hardwood Academic
Publishers, 2001)
Royal Albert Memorial
Museum, Klaya-ho-alth (‘Welcome in
Nuu-chah-nulth’) Text by
Jane Burkinshaw
(Exeter: Exeter City Museums, 1999)
Stewart Hilary, Looking at Indian art of the Northwest Coast
(Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1979)
COLLECTING AND EXHIBITING
CULTURES IN THE 19TH CENTURY – LEVEL TWO/THREE (20 CREDITS)
Select Bibliography
Arts Council of Great
Britain, Sacred Circles. Two Thousand
Years of North American Indian
Art,
catalogue by Ralph T. Coe (London: Hayward Gallery, 1976)
Barringer, Tim and Flynn,
Tom (eds), Colonialism and the Object.
Empire, Material Culture
and the Museum (London and New York: Routledge, 1998)
Brown, Stephen C (ed), Spirits of the Water. Native Art Collected
on Expeditions to Alaska
and British Columbia, 1774 – 1910 (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2000)
Edmond, Rod, Representing the South Pacific. Colonial
Discourse from Cook to Gauguin
(Cambridge University
Press, Cambridge and New York, 1997)
Elsner, John and
Cardinal, Roger (eds), The Cultures of
Collecting (London: Reaktion Books, 1994)
Coombes, Annie E., Reinventing Africa. Museums, Material
Culture And Popular Imagination
in
Late Victorian and Edwardian England (New Haven and
London: Yale University
Press, 1994)
Hall,
Stuart (ed), Representation. Cultural
Representations and signifying practices (London:
Sage
Publications, London, 1997)
Hooper-Greenhill,
Eilean,
Museums and the Shaping of Knowledge (London and New York:
Routledge, 1992)
Horse Capture, Joseph D.
and Horse Capture, George P., Beauty, Honor,
and Tradition. The
Legacy of Plains Indian Shirts National Museum of the American Indian and
Minneapolis Institute of Arts (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press,
2001)
Karp, Ivan and Lavine, Stephen D.
(eds), Exhibiting Cultures. The Poetics
and Politics of
Museum Display (Washington, D.C. and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1991)
Loomba, Ania Colonialism/Post-Colonialism (London and New York: Routledge, 1998)
Lumley, Robert (ed), The Museum Time-Machine. Putting cultures on
display (London
and New York: A
Comedia Book, Routledge, 1988. rpt. 1990, 1992)
Mansfield, Elizabeth
(ed), Art History and its Institutions.
Foundations of a discipline
(London and New York:
Routledge, 2002)
National Museum of
the American Indian/Smithsonian Institution, The Changing
Presentation
of the American Indian. Museums and Native Cultures
(Seattle and
London: University of
Washington Press, 2000)
Pearce, Susan and Ken
Arnold (eds.), The Collector’s Voice: Critical Readings in the Practice of Collecting
(Vol. 2) Early Voices (Aldershot,
Burlington, Singapore, Sydney:
Pomian, Krzysztof, Collectors and Curiosities. Paris and
Venice, 1500 – 1800, translated by
Elizabeth Wiles-Porter
(Cambridge: Polity Press, 1990)
Stocking,
Jr., George (ed), Objects and Others
(Madison: University of Wisconsin Press,
1985)
Thomas, Nicholas, Possessions. Indigenous Art/Colonial Culture
(London: Thames and
Hudson, 1999)
Young, Robert, White Mythologies. Writing History and the
West (Routledge: London and
New York, 1990)
CULTURAL DIFFERENCE – LEVEL THREE (10 CREDITS)
Select Bibliography
Anderson, Benedict, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the
Origin and Spread of
Nationalism
(London: Verso, 1983)
Araeen, Rasheed, The Other Story. Afro-Asian artists in Post
War Britain, exhibition
catalogue (London:
Hayward Gallery, 1989)
Arasse, Daniel, Anselm Keifer (London: Thames and
Hudson, 2001)
Aratjara. Art of the First Australians: Traditional
and Contemporary Works by Aboriginal
and Torres Straits Islander Artists (Dumont Buchverlag, 1993)
Barass, Gordon S., The Art of Calligraphy in Modern China
(London: The British Museum
Press, 2002)
Boime, Albert, The Art of the Macchia and the Risorgimento: Representing Culture
and
Nationalism in nineteenth century Italy (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1993)
Brett, Guy, Through our own eyes (London: GMP, 1986)
Broude, Norma (ed), World Impressionism. The International Movement, 1860 – 1920,
(New York: Harry N.
Abrams, 1990)
Clark, Jane &
Whitelaw, Bridget, Golden Summers –
Heidelberg and Beyond (Victoria,
Australia: International
Cultural Corporation of Australia Ltd, 1985)
Featherstone, Mike (ed), Global Culture: Nationalism, Globalisation
and Modernity,
(London: Sage, 1990)
Gellner, Ernest, Nations and Nationalism (Oxford:
Blackwell Publishing, 1983)
Harrison, Charles, English Art and Modernism, 1900 - 1939,
with a new introduction,
2nd ed (New
Haven: Yale University Press, 1994; first pub. 1981)
Hill, Tom and Hill,
Richard W. Sr (ed), Creations journey.
Native American identity and
belief
(Washington D.C.: Smithsonian Institution in association with the National
Museum of the American
Indian, Smithsonian Institution Press, 1994)
Hobsbawm, Eric &
Ranger, Terence (eds), The Invention of
Tradition (Cambridge:
Cambridge University
Press, 1983)
King, Catherine (ed), Views of Difference: Different Views of Art
(New Haven and London:
Yale University Press in
association with the Open University, 1999)
La France – Images of Woman and Ideas of Nation,
1789 – 1989 (London: Hayward
Gallery, 1989)
McMaster, Gerald and
Martin, Lee-Ann (eds), Indigena. Native
perspectives in Canadian
Art
(Craftsman House, 1992)
Martín Alcoff, Linda
& Mendieta, Eduardo (eds), Identities.
Race, Class, Gender, and
Nationality
(Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2003)
Mellor, David (ed), Paradise Lost. The Neo-Romantic Imagination
in Britain, 1935 – 55,
exh. cat. (London: Lund
Humphries, 1987)
Novak, Barbara, American Painting of the Nineteenth Century:
Realism, idealism and
the American Experience, 2nd ed. (New York: Harper and Row, Icon
editions, 1979)
Novak, Barbara, Nature and Culture. American Landscape and
Painting, 1825 – 1875,
(Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 1980)
Owusu, Kwesi, The Struggle for Black Arts in Britain. What
can we consider better than
freedom
(London: Comedia, 1986)
Owusu, Kwesi, Storms of the Heart: An Anthology of Black
Arts and Culture (London:
Camden Press, 1988)
Porter, Roy & Teich,
Mikulas, Romanticism in National Context
(Cambridge and London:
Cambridge University
Press, 1988)
Ranum, Orest (ed), National Consciousness, History and
Political Culture (London: 1975)
Rowe, Dorothy ‘Differencing the City: Urban Identities and
the Spatial Imagination,’ in
Urban Futures. Critical commentaries on shaping the
city, edited by Malcolm
Miles and Tim Hall
(London and New York: Routledge, 2003), pp. 27 – 43.
Rushing, William Jackson
(ed), Native American Art in the
Twentieth Century (London:
Routledge, 1999).
Rutherford, J., Identity: Community, Culture, Difference
(London: Lawrence and Wishart,
1990)
Samuel, Raphael, Patriotism. The Making and Unmaking of
British National Identity,
2 vols (London:
Routledge, 1989)
Samuel, Raphael &
Stedman Jones, Gareth (eds), Culture,
Ideology and Politics (London:
Routledge and Kegan Paul,
1982)
Smith, Anthony D., National Identity (Harmondsworth:
Penguin Books, 1991)
Taylor, Joshua C., America as Art (New York: Harper and
Row, 1976)
Taylor, Paul, The Road to Botany Bay (London: Faber,
1987)
Thomas, Daniel (ed), Creating Australia (Victoria, Australia:
International Cultural
Corporation of Australia
Ltd, 1988)
Transforming the Crown: African, Asian and Caribbean
Artists in Britain, 1966 – 1996,
exhibition catalogue (New
York: Franklin H. Williams Caribbean Cultural Centre/
African Diaspora
Institute, 1997)
Truettner, William (ed), The
West as America: Reinterpreting images of the frontier, 1820 –
1920, exhibition catalogue (Smithsonian Institution,
Washington, D.C: Smithsonian
Institution Press, 1991)
Woodcock, Peter, This enchanted isle: the neo-romantic vision
from William Blake to the
new visionaries (Glastonbury: Gothic Image Publications, 2000)
Wright, Patrick, On Living in an Old Country (London:
Verso, 1985)