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1. Request Access
2. Discussions
3. I Need Help
4. Why It Matters
5. Defining Art from the Medieval Period to Today
6. Purposes of Art
7. Aesthetics and Value
8. Representational, Abstract, and Nonrepresentational Art
9. Putting It Together
10. Works Cited
11. Why It Matters
12. Formalism and Content
13. Elements of Art
14. Videos: Elements of Art
15. Design Principles
16. Putting It Together
17. Why It Matters
18. How We See: Objective and Subjective Means
19. Context
20. Perspectives and Criticism
21. Art in the Twenty-First Century
22. Iconography
23. Putting It Together
24. Why It Matters
25. Drawing
26. Painting
27. Printmaking
28. Photography
29. Sculpture and Installation Art
30. Time-Based Media: Film and Video
31. Architecture
32. Digital Technology
33. Putting It Together
34. Why It Matters
35. Paleolithic and Neolithic Art
36. Ancient Near East: Cradle of Civilization
37. Ancient Egyptian Civilization
38. Ancient Greece and Rome
39. The Early Middle Ages
40. Early Islamic Art and Mosque Architecture
41. Romanesque and Gothic Architecture
42. Towards the Renaissance
43. The Early Renaissance
44. Leonardo da Vinci
45. Michelangelo
46. The Reformation and Counter-Reformation
47. The Baroque and Rococo
48. The Age of Enlightenment
49. Neo-Classicism
50. Romanticism
51. Becoming Modern
52. Realism and Early Photography
53. Impressionism and Fauvism
54. Cubism
55. Futurism
56. Dada and Surrealism
57. Art in Nazi Germany
58. Abstract Expressionism
59. Photography in the Early 20th Century
60. Pop Art
61. Conceptual Art
62. Contemporary Art
63. Shiva "Nataraja" (India)
64. Fan Kuan’s Travelers by Streams and Mountains (China)
65. Hokusai’s Under the Wave off Kanagawa (Japan)
66. Nkisi Nkondi (Africa)
67. Maya Portrait Stelae (Mesoamerica)
68. Putting It Together
69. Modern Storytellers: Romare Bearden, Jacob Lawrence, Faith Ringgold
70. African Influences in Modern Art
71. Reading: Writing About Art
72. Reading: Writing Processes
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