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1. Syllabus Art Appreciation HU115
2. Introduction
3. Why It Matters
4. Form and Content
5. Reading: Formalism and Content
6. Video: Introducing Formal Analysis: Landscape
7. Elements of Design
8. Reading: Artistic Elements
9. Videos: Elements of Art
10. Principles of Design
11. Reading: Artistic Principles
12. Types of Representation
13. Reading: Representational, Abstract, and Nonrepresentational Art
14. Putting It Together
15. Why It Matters
16. Art as a kind of communication and expression of culture
17. Reading: Defining Art from the Medieval Period to Renaissance
18. Reading: Defining Art from the Academy to Avant-Garde
19. Reading: Defining Art from Modernity to Globalization
20. Purposes of Art
21. Reading: Purpose of Art
22. Aesthetics
23. Reading: Art, Aesthetics, and Beauty
24. Perception and Value
25. Reading: Value Judgment
26. The Ongoing Definition of Art
27. Reading: Defining Art
28. Putting It Together
29. Why It Matters
30. Video: Art and Context
31. Perspective
32. Reading: Perspective
33. Subjective vs. Objective Analysis
34. Reading: How We See: Objective and Subjective Means
35. Context
36. Reading: Context
37. Critical Modalities
38. Reading: Critical Modalities
39. Cultural and World Perspective
40. Reading: Crossing Cultures, the artwork of Kehinde Wiley
41. Symbolism
42. Reading: Analyzing Symbols
43. Reading: Iconographic Analysis
44. Putting It Together
45. Why It Matters
46. Key Characteristics of Art: Prehistory
47. Reading: Prehistoric Art: Paleolithic Origins
48. Reading: The Neolithic Revolution
49. Reading: Ancient Near East
50. Reading: Ancient Egypt
51. Reading: Ancient Greece and Rome
52. Key Characteristics of Art: Age of Faith
53. Reading: The Medieval and Byzantine Eras
54. Reading: Early Christian Art
55. Reading: Church Architecture
56. Reading: Arts of the Islamic World: the Early Period
57. Reading: Introduction to Mosque Architecture
58. Reading: Romanesque
59. Reading: Gothic Architecture
60. Reading: Neo-Confucianism and Fan Kuan’s Travelers by Streams and Mountains
61. Reading: Shiva As Lord of the Dance (Nataraja)
62. Reading: Classic Maya Portrait Stelae
63. Key Characteristics of Art: Renaissance through Baroque
64. Reading: Florence in the Trecento (1300s)
65. Reading: Florence in the Early Renaissance
66. Video: Linear Perspective: Brunelleschi's Experiement
67. Video: How One-Point Linear Perspective Works
68. Video: Rogier van der Weyden, Deposition, c. 1435
69. Reading: Toward the High Renaissance
70. Reading: 1500–1600 End of the Renaissance and the Reformation
71. Reading: The Baroque: Art, Politics, and Religion in Seventeenth-Century Europe
72. Key Characteristics of Art: Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
73. Reading: Fragonard's The Swing
74. Reading: 1700–1800 Age of Enlightenment
75. Reading: Neo-Classicism
76. Reading: David's Death of Marat
77. Reading: Romanticism in France Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People
78. Video: Charles Barry and A.W.N. Pugin Palace of Westminster (Houses of Parliament)
79. Reading: Hokusai’s Under the Wave off Kanagawa (The Great Wave)
80. Reading: Becoming Modern
81. Reading: Early Photography
82. Reading: Impressionism
83. Reading: Nkisi Nkondi
84. Key Characteristics of Art: 1900 to the Present
85. Reading: Cubism and Picasso's Still Life with Chair Caning
86. Video: Wassily Kandinsky, Composition VII, 1913, Abstract Expressionism
87. Reading: British Art and Literature During WWI
88. Reading: Italian Futurism: An Introduction
89. Reading: Dada and Surrealism
90. Reading: Art in Nazi Germany
91. Reading: The Origins of Abstract Expressionism
92. Reading: Photography
93. Reading: Contemporary Art
94. Reading: Warhol's Gold Marilyn Monroe
95. Reading: Conceptual Art
96. Reading: Mary Kelly's Post-Partum Document
97. Reading: Appropriation (The “Pictures Generation”)
98. Compare Artworks—Similar Period
99. Reading: Modern Storytellers: Romare Bearden, Jacob Lawrence, Faith Ringgold
100. Compare Artworks—Different Periods and Cultures
101. Reading: African Influences in Modern Art
102. Historical Influence of Art
103. Reading: Classical Art and Modern Dress
104. Putting It Together
105. Why It Matters
106. Two-Dimensional Arts
107. Reading: Drawing
108. Reading: Painting
109. Reading: Printmaking
110. Reading: Photography
111. Three-Dimensional Techniques
112. Reading: Types of Sculpture and Other Three-Dimensional Media
113. Reading: Methods
114. Reading: Installation Art
115. Architecture
116. Reading: Design, Methods, and Materials
117. Time-Based Art
118. Reading: Time-Based Media: Film and Video
119. Digital Technology
120. Reading: Digital Technology and Art of the 21st Century
121. Putting It Together
122. Why It Matters
123. Evaluate Source Materials
124. Reading: Research, Supplements, Definitions, Work Hints, and More
125. Audio/Reading: Nazi-Era Art Cache Brings Provenance Issues To Swiss Museum
126. Reading: Writing About Art
127. Reading: Writing Processes
128. Document Sources
129. Reading: Bibliography
130. Putting It Together
131. Online Writing Tutor
132. Welcome
133. My First Steps
134. Course Overview
135. Attendance Policy
136. Art Projects
137. Contact Information
138. Evaluation_Grading
139. Text Website
140. Discussion Grading Guidelines
141. Less Successful Discussion Posts
142. Successful Discussion Posts
143. Footnotes
144. Successful Writing Samples
145. Less Successful Writing Samples
146. Module 1 What Is Art Key Links Learning Outcomes
147. Module 1 What Is Art Class Forum 1 What is Art?
148. Module 2 Art and Race_Key Links_Learning Outcomes
149. Module 2 Art and Race Forum 1
150. Module 2 Art and Race Forum 2
151. Module 2 Art and Race Forum 3
152. Module 2 Forum 4 Extra Credit Power of Stereotypes
153. Module 2 Art and Race Websites for Research
154. Module 3 Architecture as Art Key Links Learning Outcomes
155. Module 3 Forum 1 Vietnam Memorial Architect Maya Lin
156. Module 3 Forum 2 9/11 Memorial NYC
157. Module 3 Forum 3 WTC and Islamic Center
158. Module 3 Research Architecture
159. Module 3 Extra Credit 1 Antoni Gaudi and Simon Rodia
160. Module 3 Extra Credit II Riddle: The Parthenon, and The Male Bee
161. Module 4 Women in Art Key Links Learning Outcomes
162. Module 4 Women in Art Mini Lecture Women in Art
163. Module 4 Women in Art Forum Women in Art
164. Module 5 Art and War Key Links Learning Outcomes
165. Module 5 Forum I Pablo Picasso's Guernica
166. Module 5 Art and War Forum 2 Nazi Theft of Art
167. Module 5 Art and War Forum 3 Artists and War
168. Module 5 Art and War Civil War and American Art
169. Module 5 Art and War BBC Documentary WWII
170. Module 5 Art and War Khan Academy Parthenon Battle
171. Module 5 Art and War Khan Academy Bayeux Tapestry
172. Module 5 Art and War Khan Academy Video Bayeux Tapestry
173. Module 6 ISIS and Art History Key Links Learning Outcomes
174. Module 6 ISIS and Art History Forum 1 Iconoclasts
175. Module 6 ISIS and Art History Forum 2 ISIS and Art History
176. Module 6 ISIS and Art History Forum 3 Golden Calf
177. Module 7 Non-Western Art Key Links Learning Outcomes
178. Module 7 Non-Western Art Mini-Lecture
179. Module 7 Non-Western Art Forum on Non-Western Art
180. Module 8 Late Gothic_Renaissance Art Key Links Learning Outcomes
181. Module 8 Michelangelo and Giacometti Forum
182. Module 8 Renaissance Art Written Assignment
183. Collage Example
184. Art Project 2 Zen Drawing
185. Art Project 2 Zen Drawing Examples
186. Calder Example
Read “Iconographic Analysis” by Marjorie Munsterberg
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