🐯 Princeton Art & Archaeology unofficial reading list
| Sophomore level | |
|---|---|
| The Art & Archaeology of the Ancient Near East & Egypt ART 200 (fa26) |
• Art of Mesopotamia by Zainab Bahrani |
| Art & Archaeology of Ancient Mesoamerica ART 267 (fa26) |
• The Art of Mesoamerica: From Olmec to Aztec by Mary Ellen Miller |
| Junior level | |
|---|---|
| Girls & Dolls ART 307 (fa26) |
• The Lonely Doll by Dare Wright • What Maisie Knew by Henry James • The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton • The Membranes by Chi Ta-wei • The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison • Nightwood by Djuna Barnes ◦ Ornamentalism by Anne Anlin Cheng ◦ Ordinary Disasters: How I Stopped Being a Model Minority by Anne Anlin Cheng |
| Curatorial Time: Historic American Art & its 21st Century Audiences ART 362 (fa26) |
• Princeton University Art Museum: Handbook of the Collections by James Christen Steward • Whitney Museum of American Art: Handbook of the Collection by Dana Miller • Toward Joy: New Frameworks for American Art by Stephanie Sparling Williams |
| Everyday Writing in the Roman World ART 366 (fa26) |
• Everyday Writing in the Graeco-Roman East by Roger S. Bagnall |
| Senior level | |
|---|---|
| The Heike as History & Art ART 403 (fa26) |
• The Tale of the Heike • The Dawn of the Warrior Age: War Tales from Medieval Japan by Royall Tyler |
| 19th-Century European Art: Painting & Literature in 19th C. France and England ART 450 (fa26) |
• The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde • The Masterpiece by Émile Zola • The Unknown Masterpiece by Honoré de Balzac • Like Death by Guy de Maupassant • Villette by Charlotte Brontë |
| Art, Apartheid & South Africa ART 471 (fa26) |
✔️ Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee |
| Graduate level | |
|---|---|
| Holistic Analysis of Heritage Structures ART 538 (fa26) |
◦ Concrete Vaulted Construction in Imperial Rome: Innovations in Context by Lynne C. Lancaster ◦ Innovative Vaulting in the Architecture of the Roman Empire: 1st to 4th Centuries CE by Lynne C. Lancaster ◦ Building Construction Before Mechanization by John Fitchen ◦ The Oxford Handbook of Engineering & Technology in the Classical World by John Peter Oleson |
| Science & Its Fictions in the Long 19th Century ART 577 (fa26) |
✔️ Frankenstein by Mary Shelley ✔️ Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne • The Island of Doctor Moreau by H.G. Wells |