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Claude Monet’s 1886 painting: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/437119

The Term Paper will constitute one third of the grade. It must be based on an ORIGINAL WORKS OF ART OR A WRITTEN TREATISE OR ILLUSTRATED BOOK THAT THE STUDENT CAN STUDY AT FIRST HAND. The work(s) of art chosen may be of any type: engravings, drawings, paintings, sculpture or any of the decorative arts. Books in the Watkinson Library (Trinity College) may also be the focus of your project. Works of art can come from any public or private collection but the main examples must be seen in person during the research and writing of the paper.

 

The Assignment: Write a 12 page paper on a major artist, movement or idea from the chronological scope of the course.  Concentrate on a focused aspect of the work of art (subject matter, style, technique) and place it in the broader context of the artists career or the intellectual or historical epoch in which it was created.

 

You must incorporate analysis of original works of art along with your research into the artist, idea, movement or theme. You should build a scholarly bibliography of published sources into your treatment of the issues you define as the focus of your research. Papers must include proper humanities format footnotes and a bibliography and, as necessary, illustrations with captions identifying the artist/architect, title, date and location of works of art or architecture.

The stages of the Term Paper Project are 1. Topic proposal (Draft working title and topic statement); 2. Develop the bibliography of sources; 3. Refine the working title, topic statement and annotate the bibliography; 4. Outline; 5 Draft; 6. Final paper with footnotes, bibliography, illustrations with captions.  All stages should be prepared in Word and include your Name, Class Year, Working Title of the Paper and page numbers.

DEADLINES:

One week after in-person museum visit. Submit a written title and one paragraph description identifying the artist/architect and what aspect of their career will be focus of your research. Give a hypothetical TITLE, one paragraph description of the topic and identification of the objects upon which the project focuses including author, title, date and collection.

Two weeks after in-person museum visit. Submit a working Bibliography of at least 5 references with named authors.  Be conscious of the quality of the sources listing books, scholarly articles, exhibition catalogs. Wikipedia entries, museum websites and unvetted on-line sources may be cited in a separate category but will not count toward your five (5) bibliographical sources. In searching for bibliographical sources, you should investigate all of the following paths.

  1. Appointment with a research librarian to discover best tactics for getting reliable results from digitized library catalogs and databases.
  2. Search Oxford Art Online (Grove Dictionary of Art online) for reliable encyclopedia entries
  3. Search Worldcat (National online catalog based on Library of Congress)
  4. Search JSTOR for listing of scholarly periodicals available online
  5. Search CTW shared Library Catalog.
  6. Do a Google Search for images on the internet and online museum catalogs. Possible Google books as a source of older publications in PDF form.
  7. Other library and archive sources.

Three weeks after in-person museum visit. Submit Revised Topic Title and statement and OUTLINE. Annotate your bibliography as you consult the sources.

Four weeks after in-person museum visit. Draft of term paper.

Five weeks after in-person museum visit. Term Papers Due. (Dec. 12th)

On Topic Selection:

Students should use the books in the Trinity College Library and readings on Moodle for the course as the basis for beginning a search for a topic.  There are excellent topics within the following broad areas but you are NOT limited to these topics area:

  • Painting and the graphic arts: either by artist, by thematic category, by use, by medium, such as book illustration, color engraving, Genre painting and Sensibilité etc.
  • Sculpture: either by artist or by medium or by use (public monuments, garden sculpture etc.)
  • Art institutions: the institutions of education, of display such as Peinture d’Histoire (Painting of Narrative Subjects) and the Hierarchy of the French Royal Academy, The British Royal Academy of Painting; The Origins of the Museum in the Eighteenth Century, The French Academy in Rome
  • Interaction between artists of different nationality, travel, art markets.
  • Architecture, Architectural Drawing, Architectural Theory and Books such as Vitruvius Britannicus, or such issues as  public monuments, the Gothic Revival or Historicist styles or topics on specific architects.
  • Garden Architecture and Garden Design and Theory, such as Garden Theory and Manuals of Garden Design, The Anglo-Chinese Garden, Picturesque landscape garden, cult of ruins/follies
  • Interior Architecture
  • History of the decorative or useful arts, either on specific makers or on the uses of objects. Decorative arts areas are: furniture, ceramics, metalwork and jewelry, glass, textiles and costume, scientific instruments and by extension such issues as Decorative Arts and Status, new technology and manufactures etc.
  • History of Collecting
  • Sublime: Edmund Burke, A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origins of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful, 1757, paperback edition edited by James T. Boulton, University of Notre Dame Press, 1958, 1968, ISBN 0-268-00085-9.
  • Stylistic phenomenon such as Chinoiserie, neo-Palladianism, neo-classicism etc.