Howard Stoner Course Materials Collection, 1994-2017

Howard Stoner Course Materials Collection, 1994-2017

Summary Information

Abstract

The Howard Stoner Course Materials collection contains syllabi, hand-outs, and other teaching materials collected by Howard Stoner, a New York City-based advertising executive who audited over 70 courses at Columbia and Barnard between 1994 and 2017.

At a Glance

Call No.:
UA#0153
Bib ID:
13477186 View CLIO record
Creator(s):
Stoner, Howard
Repository:
Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Physical Description:
1.96 linear feet (4 document boxes and 1 index card box)
Language(s):
English .
Access:
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Description

Scope and Contents

The Howard Stoner Course Materials collection contains syllabi, reading lists, bibliographies, lecture hand-outs, slide lists, reading guides, and instructions for assignments. The collection concentrates on the Art History department, where Stoner enrolled in lectures and seminars from 1994 through 2005, but the materials from the last ten years of the collection cover lecture courses from a range of disciplines in the humanities. Each series is organized alphabetically by course title.

Arrangement

This collection is arranged in seven series.

Using the Collection

Conditions Governing Access

You will need to make an appointment in advance to use this collection material in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room. You can schedule an appointment once you've submitted your request through your Special Collections Research Account.

This collection is located off-site. You will need to request this material at least three business days in advance to use the collection in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room.

This collection has no restrictions.

Conditions Governing Use

Reproductions may be made for research purposes. The RBML maintains ownership of the physical material only. Copyright remains with the creator and his/her heirs. The responsibility to secure copyright permission rests with the patron.

The RBML cannot provide access to original time-based media material which has not been first been reformatted for preservation. Researchers are welcome to examine archival time-based media items and decide whether they wish to place an order for Audio/Video reformatting. If copyright and/or condition restrictions apply, it may not be possible to digitize a requested item. Please note that A/V reformatting is handled by an outside vendor and typically takes 6-8 weeks.

Preferred Citation

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Howard Stoner Course Materials collection, 1994-2017; Box and Folder (if known); University Archives, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Libraries.

Selected Related Material at Columbia

Lecture Notes Collection (UA#0034)

Accruals

No additions are expected.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Nancy Reed, Gift, December 2017.

About the Finding Aid / Processing Information

Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Processing Information

This collection was processed by Victoria Wiet (GSAS). Finding aid written by Victoria Wiet and Jocelyn Wilk in August 2018.

Revision Description

2018-08-16 File created.

2019-05-20 EAD was imported spring 2019 as part of the ArchivesSpace Phase II migration.

Biographical Note

Howard Stoner was an executive at N.W. Ayer and Son, one of the leading American advertising agencies in the 20th century. An account manager for most of his tenure at Ayer, by the time of his retirement he was Senior Vice President at the firm. He graduated with a degree in English from Princeton University in 1954 and an MBA from Columbia in1960. In addition to being active in Princeton's alumni networks, Stoner also avidly attended the performing and fine arts throughout New York City. He began auditing classes at Columbia in 1994, increased his course load following his retirement in 1997, and continued his education at Columbia until spring 2017. He passed away in July 2017.

Subject Headings

The subject headings listed below are found in this collection. Links below allow searches for other collections at Columbia University, through CLIO, the catalog for Columbia University Libraries, and through ArchiveGRID, a catalog that allows users to search the holdings of multiple research libraries and archives.

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Genre/Form
Course materials
Syllabi
Name
Columbia University
Subject
Architecture, European
Architecture, Modern -- 20th century
Art -- History
Classics
Comparative literature
English literature
History
Music -- History and criticism
Religion

Series I: Art History, 1994-2005

This series consists of syllabi, bibliographies of recommended readings, hand-outs from lectures and museum visits, slide lists, and instructions for written assignments and exams. In a few instances, Stoner also collected syllabi from years other than the one he when he had enrolled. The courses represented in the series primarily consist of undergraduate lectures but also includes graduate lectures and graduate seminars. The curriculum concentrates but does not exclusively focus on classical art and European painting until 1900.


Box 1

American Art and Culture, 2002 Fall

(BC3642, Elizabeth Hutchinson)


American Painters in England in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, 1997 Spring

(W4580, Allen Staley)


Archaeological Theory and Practice, 2001 Spring

(W4001, Joanna S. Smith)


Archaic Greek Art and Architecture, 2004 Fall

(G6247, Clemente Marconi)


Art in the Age of Reformation, 2000 Spring

(W4480, Keith Moxey)


Art Humanities: Masterpieces of Western Art, 2000 Spring

(C1121, Caroline Wamsler)


Art of the Later Middle Ages, 2004 Spring

(BC3342, Thomas Dale)


Collecting, 2004 Spring

(W4850, Anne Higonnet)


Dutch Art and Society in the Seventeenth Century, 1996 Spring

(W3505, Thomas Dale)


Early Christian and Early Medieval Art, 1995 Fall

(BC3551, Jane Rosenthal)


Early Victorian Painting, 1837-1861, 1995 Spring

(G4623, Allen Staley)


From Neoclassicism to Romanticism: German Painting and the Politics of Identity, 1763-1848, 2003 Spring

(G4560, Cordula Grewe)


Greek Art and Architecture, 1996 Fall

(V3249, Richard Brilliant)


Hellenistic Art, 1998 Spring

(G4225, Andrew Stewart)


History of Photography, 2005 Spring

(BC3673, Benjamin Buchloh)


Impressionism, 2003 Spring

(BC3663, Anne Higgonet)


Italian Renaissance Painting I: The Fifteenth Century, 1997 Fall

(V3400, James Beck)


Italian Renaissance Painting II: The Sixteenth Century, 1995 Spring

(V3437, David Rosand)


Modern Art and Tradition, 2000 Fall

(G6642, Theodore Reff)


Nineteenth-Century Painting, 1994 Fall

(W3600, Allen Staley)


Painting in Britain, 1860-1914, 1998 Spring

(unknown course number, Allen Staley)


Box 2

Post-Impressionism, 1999 Fall

(G6335, Theodore Reff)


Pre-Raphaelitism, 1995 Fall

(unknown course number, Allen Staley)


Realism and Impressionism, 1998 Fall

(G4680, Theodore Reff)


Renaissance Venice, 1997 Fall

(G6460, David Rosand)


Roman Art and Architecture, 1997 Spring

(V3250, Natalie Kampen)


Roman Art II: Augustus to the Flavians, 1996 Fall

(G6271, Richard Brilliant)


Roman Art III: Trajan to Constantine, 1997 Fall

(G6273, Richard Brilliant)


Seventeenth-Century Art, 1997 Fall

(V3200, Alexander Vergara)


Twentieth-Century Art, 2002 Spring

(W3650, Rosalind Krauss)

Series II: Architecture, 1994-2006

This series consists of syllabi, reading lists, hand-outs from lectures and walking tours, slide lists, and instructions for written assignments and exams. Most courses represented in the series were taught under the auspices of the Art History department, though a few lectures from the Architecture department appear as well. The curriculum focuses on European architecture from the medieval period until 1900 and American architecture, with a particular emphasis on New York City. Materials from an Introduction to Architecture course taken in Fall 2001 include lecture notes from September 12th, 2001, when the professor revised the syllabus to add a lecture on "The Skyscraper" in response to the World Trade Center attacks.


American Architecture Before 1876, 2006 Fall

(ARCH A4341, Andrew S. Dolkart)


The American City: Urban Form and City Planning, 2002 Fall

(AHIS C3643, Hilary Ballon)


The American City: Urban Forms and Social Patterns, 2005 Fall

(AHIS 3643, Hilary Ballon)


Architecture 1750-1890, 2003 Fall

(W3833, Barry Bergdoll)


Architectural History and Development of New York City, 2006 Spring

(ARCH A6705, Andrew S. Dolkart)


The Architecture of New York City, 1994 Summer

(ARCH S3605, Donald Reynolds)


Baroque and Rococo Architecture, 1600-1750, 2004 Spring

(AHIS W4443, Hilary Ballon)


Box 3

Gothic Architecture, 2001 Fall

(AHIS 4537, Stephen Murray) (3 folders)


Introduction to Architecture, 2001 Fall

(AHIS 3001, Joseph Connors) (2 folders)


Italian Renaissance Architecture, 2001 Spring

(AHIS 4418, Joseph Connors)

Series III: Music, 2009-2011

This series consists of syllabi, listening guides, lecture hand-outs, and instructions for written assignments and exams from undergraduate survey lectures in music history. Lecture hand-outs include excerpts from libretti annotated by the professor.


The Opera, 2009 Fall

(V2025, Karen Henson)


The Operas of Verdi, 2010 Spring

(V3136, Karen Henson)


The Music of Brahms, 2010 Spring

(V3138, Walter Frisch)


The Symphony, 2011 Spring

(V2026, Walter Frisch)

Series IV: Religion, 2000-2008

This series consists of syllabi, bibliographies of recommended readings, class outlines and lecture handouts, and instructions for written assignments and exams from undergraduate surveys of Western religions.


Christianity, 2005 Fall

(V2105, Robert Somerville)


Introduction to Western Religions, 2000 Fall

(V1101, Celia Deutsch)


Islam, 2005 Spring

(V2305, Peter Awn)


Judaism, 2008 Fall

(V2505, Alan Segal)

Series V: History, 1994-2016, bulk 2006-2016

This series consists of syllabi, lecture hand-outs, and instructions for written assignments and exams from a diverse set of lectures in the History department. Included in the series is a syllabus and detailed set of field trip instructions for Kenneth Jackson's popular History of the City of New York lecture, though Stoner ultimately dropped the course.


Box 4

A City's History: New York, 1994 Summer

(S3605D, James Shenton)


History of the City of New York, 2016 Fall

(UN2535, Kenneth Jackson) (dropped)


Introduction to European History: French Revolution to the Present, 2016 Spring

(BC1302, Deborah Coen)


The Making of the Modern American Landscape, 2007 Spring

(W3441, Elizabeth Blackmar)


Nineteenth-Century Britain, 2016 Fall

(W2323, Matthew Wyman-McCarthy)


The Romans and Their Empire: 745 BC to 565 AD, 2006 Spring

(W1020, Myles McDonnell)

Series VI: Classics, English, and Comparative Literature, 2005-2017

This series consists of syllabi, reading guides, class outlines, lecture hand-outs, and instructions for exams and essays for lecture courses on the British and European novel, Classical literature and Shakespeare. A majority of the courses covered by the series were taught in the English department, but courses from Classics, Comparative Literature, and Russian appear as well.


American Modernism and Anti-Modernism, 2013 Spring

(W4604, Austin Graham)


The American Novel, 1865-1914, 2009 Spring

(unknown course number, Amanda Claybaugh)


American Writers and Their Foreign Counterparts, 2015 Spring

(BC3187, Mary Gordon)


Classical Myth, 2007 Fall

(CLLT V3132, Elizabeth Scharffenberger)


The Classical Tradition, 2012 Fall

(CLLT W4300, Nancy Worman)


Dickens, Thackeray, Eliot, 2013 Fall

(W4405, Nicholas Dames)


History of the English Novel II, 2017 Spring

(W4802, James Eli Adams)


Literature and Empire: The Reign of the Novel in Russia, 2015 Fall

(RUSS UN3320, Cathy Popkin)


Opera As Literature, 2008 Spring

(CPLS BC3125, James Crapotta)


Post-1945 American Fiction, 2006 Fall

(W3283, Ross Posnock)


Shakespeare I, 2011 Fall

(W3335, Molly Murray)


Shakespeare II, 2012 Spring

(W3336, Julie Crawford)


Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and the English Novel, 2015 Fall

(CLRS W4011, Liza Knapp)


Virginia Woolf, 2014 Spring

(W4225, Sarah Cole)

Series VII: Cassettes

This series consists of tapes of walking tours from Donald Reynolds' New York City architecture lecture course, taught in summer 1994.


Box 5

Architecture of New York City walking tour, 1994 July 18

(2 tapes)


Architecture of New York City walking tour, 1994 July 20

(1 tape)


Architecture of New York City walking tour, 1994 August 1

(2 tapes)


Architecture of New York City walking tour, 1994 August 8

(2 tapes)


Architecture of New York City waking tour, 1994 August 10

(1 tape)


Architecture of New York City, undated

(tape labeled "architectural stimuli")