IWU May Term 2001

Clst./Hum. 270

Preserving the Past: Collectors and the Trade in Antiquities

Prof. Nancy Sultan




BIBLIOGRAPHY & ON-LINE RESOURCES
 
 

Required Textbooks:

K. Meyer, The Plundered Past. 1973 (Available at Sheean)

Available at IWU Bookstore:

J. Boardman, ed. Oxford History of Classical Art. Oxford 1997

K. W. Tubb, ed. Antiquities Trade or Betrayed: Legal, Ethical and Conservation Issues. Archetype Pub. 1995

Optional Titles: (Available at Bookstore)

Discovery Series: The Search for Ancient Greece

Discovery Series: The Search for Ancient Rome

Discovery Series: The Search for Ancient Egypt

W. St. Clair , Lord Elgin and the Marbles: The Controversial History of the Parthenon Sculptures. Oxford 1998

Ground Rules: I expect full participation in class lecture & discussion. All reading assignments must be completed on time. I expect everyone to be present on time for all group meetings and appointments. You will be responsible on exams for the reading and lectures. Please purchase large Blue-Books for exams.
 
 

Evaluation:

Class Participation 25%

"2001: An Art Odyssey" Project 35%

Exam 1 (May 16) 20%

Exam 2 (May 28) 20%
 
 

Schedule of Reading Assignments. Read what is assigned in time for the next meeting!

Spring Meetings
 

April 1, 8, 1) Read: Meyer, The Plundered Past, in reverse order (chs. 5-1). Take a look at the Appendices, especially B (laws for Greece, Italy, Turkey"); D1; F, 2; G. Take notes, prepare discussion questions for these meetings. Plan to finish the book before the beginning of May Term!
 

2) Begin research on your museum object

April 22-May 9: Begin working through the Oxford History of Classical Art=OHCA assignments, if you want less to read during the first week of May Term!
 

Week 1

May 9 Class meets daily in Buck 108, 1-4 pm.

OHCA: Read the Introduction & study the map of the Mediterranean, and read Ch. 7 "Diffusion of Classical Art"

May 10 Read OHCA Ch. 2 "Pre-Classical Art"

May 11 Read OHCA Ch. 3 "The Classical Period"

May 14 Read OHCA Ch. 4 "The Hellenistic Period"

May 15 Read OHCA Ch. 5 "Rome"

May 16 EXAM I

Week 2
Th, May 17 Depart Bloomington 11:05 am, American Airlines, arrive Chicago 12:00. Depart Chicago at 1:00 and arrive in New York LaGuardia Airport 4:08 pm.

Transfer to the Excelsior Hotel (45 W. 81st St. NY NY)

212-362-9200/ 1-800-368-4575
 

Dinner with the group 6:30

Read in Antiquities: Trade or Betrayed (ATB):
M. Kouroupas, "U.S. Efforts to Protect" pp. 83-93P.
 

Fri., May 18 A day in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

2:00 pm. Lecture and tour of Greek, Roman, and Cypriot Galleries with Joan Mertens
Read ATB : P. O’Keefe "Conservators & Actions" pp. 73-82

Sat., May 19 Morning Discussion. Free Afternoon

Read ATB: P. Boylan, "Illicit Trafficking" pp. 94-104

Sun., May 20 FREE DAY

Read ATB: Chippindale & Gill, "Cycladic Figurines" pp. 131-142

Mon., May 21 A Day in the Brooklyn Museum. Edward Bleiberg, Assoc. Curator in the Egyptian Dept. Tour Egyptian Collection and visit "Brooklyn Collects" Leave hotel at 9 am. Meet the Curator at 10:00 am.

Read ATB: J. Eisenberg, "Ethics & Antiquities Trade, pp. 215-231

Also read two hand-outs: J. Eisenberg’s Minerva article, "Int’l Trade in Antiquities Update," (including his letter to the Times), and the Time Magazine article "The Auction House Scandal"

Tues., May 22 2:00 Visit to Christie’s Auction House, 20 Rockefeller Plaza. Lecture and showing of objects for auction by Max Bernheimer

4:00 Lecture by Jerome Eisenberg of the Royal-Athena Galleries, 153 East 57th Street Internationally respected Private Antiquities Dealer

Read ATB: B.F. Cook, "Trade in Antiquities" pp. 181-192

Week 3

Wed., May 23 Depart from NY on Amtrak 12:30 pm from NY Penn Station.

Arrive Boston, South Station, 5:20 pm. on Amtrak.
 

Transfer to Harvard Square Hotel (110 Mount Auburn Street, Cambridge, MA. Tel:1/617/864-5200, Fax:1/617/864-2409).
Group Dinner that evening.

Read ATB: R. Elia, "Conservators & Unprovenanced" pp. 235-255

Th., May 24 A Day at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Lecture Tour by Chief Curator Lawrence Berman, 2 pm.

Read ATB: K. Tubb, "Antiquities Trade," pp. 256-263
 

Fri., May 25 A Day At Harvard:

10:00 am: Sackler Museum: Amy Brauer

12:00-12:45 lunch

1:00 Semitic Museum: Joe Greene [Cesnola Collection]

2:15 Lecture by Prof. Ricardo Elia [Boston U., on Apulian Vases]

3:30 Straus Conservation Lab Tour

Sat., May 26 Morning Discussion. Free Afternoon
 

Sun., May 28 (Memorial Day) EXAM II (free afternoon)

Mon., May 29 Depart from Boston 9:06 am, arrive Chicago 10:45, Depart for Bloomington 11:30, arrive Bloomington 12:29 pm

Tues., May 30 Oral Presentations, Buck 108, 1-4 2001: An Art Odyssey

Wed., May 31 Final Essay Due in my office by 5:00 pm