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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. |
| Course Introduction | Assignment Topics |
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FIRST CLASS
| Introduction to course, explanations, hand-outs |
THE COURSE BEGINS: INTRODUCTION - Basic Ideas
| 38-42 | |
Egyptian, intellectual sculpture and painting, linear art, static composition and repetition | |
| 104-120 | |
Classical, parts of temple p 109, Classical Beauty and Idealization handout, static and dynamic art, lyrical art | |
| Preparation for Assignments | |||
| 154-162 | |
Painting and Mosaics, perspectives, painterly art, landscapes | |
| 265-273 | |
Early Christian, The Roman Basilica and parts of a church handout - continued use of idealization and Classical Beauty, II Commandment, recession from realism | |
| 373-80 | |
Paragraph 3 , Giovanni Pisano, Giotto, return to realism, Classicism, modelling for bulk, expression |
THE RENAISSANCE
| 388-396 | |
Read 388-393 - Italian Architecture and Painting | |
| 398-405 |
| Read 396-405 - Flemish Painting, and more Italian Architecture | |
| 410-421 | |
Read 410-414 - Piero della Francesca, and Read 417-421 - Botticelli |
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| 421-433 | |
Read 421-424 - Venetian Painting Read 433-436 - Bosch, Grunewald |
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| 439-448 | |
Read 439-448 - Leonardo, Raphael, Bramante | |
| 448-462 | |
Read 448-453 - Michelangelo: David and Sistine Chapel
Ceiling Read 456-461 - Giorgione and Titian |
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| 471-475 | |
Read 471-474 - Pieter Bruegel the Elder | |
| Surfing Day |
BAROQUE AND ROCOCO
| 350-541 | |
Read 530-541 - Cravaggio and the Carracci; Rubens and van Dyck | |
| 541-551 | |
Read 543-547 - Bernini Read 549-551 - Poussin and Claude | |
| 551-561 | |
Read 551-554 - Velasquez Read 556-561 - Rembrandt | |
| 561-569 | |
Read 561-566 - Dutch Painting | |
| 569-590 | |
Read 569-579 - French Rococo | |
| Surfing Day |
ROMANTIC
| 591-602 | |
Read 591-600 - NeoClassicism and Romanticism | |
| 602-613 | |
Read 602-604 - Goya Read 609-611 - Friedrich and Blake read 613-616 - Turner |
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| 620-632 | |
Read 620-623 - Architectural style Read 625-630 - Realism to end Manet |
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| 632-639 | |
Read 632-639 - American landscape and genre painting | |
| Surfing Day |
PROTO-MODERN
| 656-668 | |
Read 656-661 - Impressionism | |
| 668-678 | |
Read 668-670 - Japonisme Read 674-678 - Gauguin, Van Gogh, Munch, Rodin |
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| 679-688 | |
Read 679-681 - Art Nouveau, Sullivan Read 684-688 - Cezanne |
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MODERN
| 716-724 | |
Read 716-724 - Matisse, Picasso, Fauves | |
| 724-736 | |
Read 724-736 - Kandinsky, Cubism | |
| 736-750 | |
Read 741-743 - Abstract Art: Suprematism Read 745-750 - Dada and Surealism |
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| 750-761 | |
Read 750-753, 754-754 - American Precisionism Read 753-761 - de Chirico, Dali, Welded Metal Sculpture |
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| 761-774 | |
Read 765-772 - Constructivism, The Bauhaus, Le Corbusier | |
| 775-783 | |
Read 775-782 - American Abstract Expressionism | |
| 783-795 | |
Read 783-789 - Matisse, Jasper Johns, Pop Art | |
| 791-802 | |
Read 791-794 - Minimal Art, Land Art Read 797-802 - Process Art, Post Modernism |
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| 803-827 | |
Read 803-810 - Questioning Modernism Read 827 - Video Art |
FINAL EXAM:
What were the main criteria by which people recognized "good" art during the fifteenth century? Point out TWO turning points which paved the way for the art of the 20th century. What are the criteria by which we assess art today?
| Course Introduction | Assignment Topics |
Assignment Topics |
Encyclopedia |