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1. Quiz Overview
2. Syllabus Art Appreciation HU115
3. Introduction
4. Why It Matters
5. Form and Content
6. Reading: Formalism and Content
7. Video: Introducing Formal Analysis: Landscape
8. Elements of Design
9. Reading: Artistic Elements
10. Videos: Elements of Art
11. Principles of Design
12. Reading: Artistic Principles
13. Types of Representation
14. Reading: Representational, Abstract, and Nonrepresentational Art
15. Putting It Together
16. Why It Matters
17. Art as a kind of communication and expression of culture
18. Reading: Defining Art from the Medieval Period to Renaissance
19. Reading: Defining Art from the Academy to Avant-Garde
20. Reading: Defining Art from Modernity to Globalization
21. Purposes of Art
22. Reading: Purpose of Art
23. Aesthetics
24. Reading: Art, Aesthetics, and Beauty
25. Perception and Value
26. Reading: Value Judgment
27. The Ongoing Definition of Art
28. Reading: Defining Art
29. Putting It Together
30. Why It Matters
31. Video: Art and Context
32. Perspective
33. Reading: Perspective
34. Subjective vs. Objective Analysis
35. Reading: How We See: Objective and Subjective Means
36. Context
37. Reading: Context
38. Critical Modalities
39. Reading: Critical Modalities
40. Cultural and World Perspective
41. Reading: Crossing Cultures, the artwork of Kehinde Wiley
42. Symbolism
43. Reading: Analyzing Symbols
44. Reading: Iconographic Analysis
45. Putting It Together
46. Why It Matters
47. Key Characteristics of Art: Prehistory
48. Reading: Prehistoric Art: Paleolithic Origins
49. Reading: The Neolithic Revolution
50. Reading: Ancient Near East
51. Reading: Ancient Egypt
52. Reading: Ancient Greece and Rome
53. Key Characteristics of Art: Age of Faith
54. Reading: The Medieval and Byzantine Eras
55. Reading: Early Christian Art
56. Reading: Church Architecture
57. Reading: Arts of the Islamic World: the Early Period
58. Reading: Introduction to Mosque Architecture
59. Reading: Romanesque
60. Reading: Gothic Architecture
61. Reading: Neo-Confucianism and Fan Kuan’s Travelers by Streams and Mountains
62. Reading: Shiva As Lord of the Dance (Nataraja)
63. Reading: Classic Maya Portrait Stelae
64. Key Characteristics of Art: Renaissance through Baroque
65. Reading: Florence in the Trecento (1300s)
66. Reading: Florence in the Early Renaissance
67. Video: Linear Perspective: Brunelleschi's Experiement
68. Video: How One-Point Linear Perspective Works
69. Video: Rogier van der Weyden, Deposition, c. 1435
70. Reading: Toward the High Renaissance
71. Reading: 1500–1600 End of the Renaissance and the Reformation
72. Reading: The Baroque: Art, Politics, and Religion in Seventeenth-Century Europe
73. Key Characteristics of Art: Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
74. Reading: Fragonard's The Swing
75. Reading: 1700–1800 Age of Enlightenment
76. Reading: Neo-Classicism
77. Reading: David's Death of Marat
78. Reading: Romanticism in France Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People
79. Video: Charles Barry and A.W.N. Pugin Palace of Westminster (Houses of Parliament)
80. Reading: Hokusai’s Under the Wave off Kanagawa (The Great Wave)
81. Reading: Becoming Modern
82. Reading: Early Photography
83. Reading: Impressionism
84. Reading: Nkisi Nkondi
85. Key Characteristics of Art: 1900 to the Present
86. Reading: Cubism and Picasso's Still Life with Chair Caning
87. Video: Wassily Kandinsky, Composition VII, 1913, Abstract Expressionism
88. Reading: British Art and Literature During WWI
89. Reading: Italian Futurism: An Introduction
90. Reading: Dada and Surrealism
91. Reading: Art in Nazi Germany
92. Reading: The Origins of Abstract Expressionism
93. Reading: Photography
94. Reading: Contemporary Art
95. Reading: Warhol's Gold Marilyn Monroe
96. Reading: Conceptual Art
97. Reading: Mary Kelly's Post-Partum Document
98. Reading: Appropriation (The “Pictures Generation”)
99. Compare Artworks—Similar Period
100. Reading: Modern Storytellers: Romare Bearden, Jacob Lawrence, Faith Ringgold
101. Compare Artworks—Different Periods and Cultures
102. Reading: African Influences in Modern Art
103. Historical Influence of Art
104. Reading: Classical Art and Modern Dress
105. Putting It Together
106. Why It Matters
107. Two-Dimensional Arts
108. Reading: Drawing
109. Reading: Painting
110. Reading: Printmaking
111. Reading: Photography
112. Three-Dimensional Techniques
113. Reading: Types of Sculpture and Other Three-Dimensional Media
114. Reading: Methods
115. Reading: Installation Art
116. Architecture
117. Reading: Design, Methods, and Materials
118. Time-Based Art
119. Reading: Time-Based Media: Film and Video
120. Digital Technology
121. Reading: Digital Technology and Art of the 21st Century
122. Putting It Together
123. Why It Matters
124. Evaluate Source Materials
125. Reading: Research, Supplements, Definitions, Work Hints, and More
126. Audio/Reading: Nazi-Era Art Cache Brings Provenance Issues To Swiss Museum
127. Reading: Writing About Art
128. Reading: Writing Processes
129. Document Sources
130. Reading: Bibliography
131. Putting It Together
132. Online Writing Tutor
133. Welcome
134. My First Steps
135. Course Overview
136. Attendance Policy
137. Art Projects
138. Contact Information
139. Evaluation_Grading
140. Text Website
141. Discussion Grading Guidelines
142. Less Successful Discussion Posts
143. Successful Discussion Posts
144. Footnotes
145. Successful Writing Samples
146. Less Successful Writing Samples
147. Module 1 What Is Art Key Links Learning Outcomes
148. Module 1 What Is Art? Written Assignment
149. Module 1 What Is Art Class Forum 1 What is Art?
150. Module 2 Art and Race_Key Links_Learning Outcomes
151. Module 2 Art and Race Written Assignment
152. Module 2 Art and Race Forum 1
153. Module 2 Art and Race Forum 2
154. Module 2 Art and Race Forum 3
155. Module 2 Forum 4 Extra Credit Power of Stereotypes
156. Module 2 Art and Race Websites for Research
157. Module 3 Architecture as Art Key Links Learning Outcomes
158. Module 3 Forum 1 Vietnam Memorial Architect Maya Lin
159. Module 3 Forum 2 9/11 Memorial NYC
160. Module 3 Forum 3 WTC and Islamic Center
161. Module 3 Research Architecture
162. Module 3 Extra Credit 1 Antoni Gaudi and Simon Rodia
163. Module 3 Extra Credit II Riddle: The Parthenon, and The Male Bee
164. Module 4 Women in Art Key Links Learning Outcomes
165. Module 4 Women in Art Mini Lecture Women in Art
166. Module 4 Women in Art Written Assignment
167. Module 4 Women in Art Forum Women in Art
168. Module 5 Art and War Key Links Learning Outcomes
169. Module 5 Forum I Pablo Picasso's Guernica
170. Module 5 Art and War Forum 2 Nazi Theft of Art
171. Module 5 Art and War Forum 3 Artists and War
172. Module 5 Art and War Civil War and American Art
173. Module 5 Art and War BBC Documentary WWII
174. Module 5 Art and War Khan Academy Parthenon Battle
175. Module 5 Art and War Khan Academy Bayeux Tapestry
176. Module 5 Art and War Khan Academy Video Bayeux Tapestry
177. Module 6 ISIS and Art History Key Links Learning Outcomes
178. Module 6 ISIS and Art History Forum 1 Iconoclasts
179. Module 6 ISIS and Art History Forum 2 ISIS and Art History
180. Module 6 ISIS and Art History Forum 3 Golden Calf
181. Module 7 Non-Western Art Key Links Learning Outcomes
182. Module 7 Non-Western Art Mini-Lecture
183. Module 7 Non-Western Art Research Assignment
184. Module 7 Non-Western Art Forum on Non-Western Art
185. Module 8 Late Gothic_Renaissance Art Key Links Learning Outcomes
186. Module 8 Michelangelo and Giacometti Test Medieval and Renaissance
187. Module 8 Michelangelo and Giacometti Forum
188. Module 8 Renaissance Art Written Assignment
189. Collage Example
190. Art Project 2 Zen Drawing
191. Art Project 2 Zen Drawing Examples
192. Calder Example
Art-Appreciation-Syllabus 2017
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