Set book:
Hugh Honour and John Fleming, The Visual Arts: A History, Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs,
NJ, 4th ed, 1995
BRING THIS BOOK TO CLASS! | Bring all your assignments to class, every time. |
Courses | Introduction | What you should be doing now |
INTRODUCTION
Introduction to course, purposes of art, artistic approaches to truth |
THE FOUNDATIONS: ART AS STATEMENT
19-24 | ![]() |
Sumerian Art | |
25-31 | ![]() |
Akkadian Art | |
32-42 | ![]() | Egyptian Art, Early Dynastic and Old Kingdom | |
42-51 | ![]() |
Egyptian Middle Kingdom and Minoan | |
51-55 59-62 |
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Mycenean Hittites |
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62-74 | ![]() |
Egyptian, New Kingdom | |
REVIEW: terms, concepts, comparisons |
THE CULMINATION: CLASSICAL ART
95-100 | ![]() | Archaic Greece, kouroi and korai | |
101-103 | ![]() |
Archaic Greece, drawing | |
104-109 | ![]() |
Classical Greece, temples, orders | |
110-118 | ![]() |
Classical Greece, Pediment sculpture, Idealization |
NEW IDEAS: ART AS OBSERVATION AND DIALOGUE
118-126 | ![]() |
Late Classical Greece, naturalism | |
126-132 | ![]() |
Scythians and Celts, pattern, fantasy, movement | |
133-140 | ![]() |
Etruscans, character, portraiture, humor | |
141-151 | ![]() |
Hellenistic sculpture, energy, violence, excitement, pathos | |
154-162 | ![]() |
Hellenistic and Roman painting, perspective, style |
THE OLDEST IDEAS OF ALL
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REVIEW: terms, concepts, comparisons | |
4-12 | PREPARED DISCUSSION: Prehistoric Art |
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ART FOR DOMINATION
24 Oct | ![]() |
WRITTEN TEST: all terms, concepts, styles, periods, and comparisons, so far | |
162-170 | ![]() |
Roman Architecture | |
170-182 | ![]() |
Roman Sculpture | |
264-279 | ![]() |
Early Christian Art, symbolic scenes | |
282-289 | ![]() |
Byzantine Architecture, Justinian and Hagia Sophia, an architectural miracle | |
279-282 289-291 |
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Byzantine Art, Justinian and Ravenna Byzantine Art, Justinian and Mount Sinai, miraculous optical illusions |
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291-296 | ![]() |
Byzantine Art, Icons and Iconoclasm, optical effects | |
297-300 | ![]() |
Insular Art, complexity, symbolic abstractions | |
REVIEW: terms, concepts, comparisons, styles |
STYLE AS MEANING
300-308 | ![]() |
Carolingian Art | |
332-338 | ![]() |
Ottonian Art | |
338-342 | ![]() |
Italian Romanesque Architecture | |
342-349 | ![]() |
French Romanesque Art and Architecture, The Millenium, vaulting problems | |
349-351 | ![]() |
High Romanesque, vaulting solutions | |
351-360 | ![]() |
French Gothic Architecture, the fulfillment of the prophecies | |
362-367 | ![]() |
Gothic Sculpture and the Anti-Christ | |
REVIEW: terms, concepts, comparisons, styles |
ART AND CHURCH REFORM
367-376 | ![]() |
Italian Gothic, the icon as altarpiece | |
376-380 | ![]() |
Italian Gothic, Giotto, earthy realism |
FINAL EXAM:
How many different ways can art address the spiritual?
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