Class Schedule

1

Tues

1/5

• Introduction
• Art history–an overview
• The ancient world and the birth of writing
• Pre-history
• Sumer & Mesopotamia
• Egypt

pp.16–44

Wed

1/7

Quiz 1

The Classical World

• Minos& Mycenae
• Greece
• Etruria
• Rome

pp.46–120

2

Tues

1/12

Quiz 2

Europe in the Middle Ages

• Early Christian
• Byazantine
• Golden Age of Ireland
• Carolingian
• Ottonian
• Romanesque
• Gothic

pp. 122–144, 156–212

Wed

1/14

The Renaissance

• Late Gothic
• Early Renaissance
• High Renaissance
• Northern Renaissance
• Renaissance in printing

pp. 215-282

3

Tues

1/19

Quiz 3

The Art of Excess

• The Baroque in Italy, Spain and Flanders
• Dutch restraint
• French Classicism
• Rococo

pp. 284–318

Thur

1/21

The Art of Revolution

• Philosophy of the 'Enlightenment'
• American ideals
• Neoclassicism
• The French Revolution
• Napoleon
• Romanticism

pp. 318–339

4

Tues

1/26

Quiz 4

The Victorian Era

• New technology
• Chromolitography
• Invention of Photography
• Design and illustration
• Arts and Crafts Movement
• The Pre-Raphaelites

pp. 339–342

Thur

1/28

The Independents

• Photography as document
• Courbet and Realism
• Manet and Whistler
• Impressionism
• The Jananese influence
• Post-Impressionism

pp. 344–367

5

Tues

2/2

Student presentations

Thur

2/4

Student presentations

6

Tues

2/9

Field trip to the MIA

Thur

2/11

La Belle Epoque

• Symbolism
• Art Nouveau
• The Glasgow School
• The Vienna Secession

• Peter Behrens

7

Tues

2/16

Quiz 5

The Shock of the New

• The Ashcan School
• The Fauve
• Expressionism
• Cubism
• Futurism

pp.370–391

Thur

2/18

Program assessment day — no classes held

8

Tues

2/23

Quiz 6

Modernism Between the Wars

• Straight photography
• The Steieglitz group and American modernism
• Social art and Regionalism
• Dada
• Abstraction
• Surrealism

pp. 391–402

Thur

2/25

• Reflective essay due

Popular Arts in Modern Age

• The Golden Age of Illustration
• Plakatstil
• The World War I poster
• Art Deco
• Heroic Realism
• The World War II poster
• Streamline

9

Tues

3/2

Quiz 7

A New Language of Form

• Constructivism
• DeStijl
• The Bauhaus

• Swiss International style

pp.404–421

Thur

3/4

America Takes the Lead

• Abstract Expressionism
• The New York School
• American editorial and advertising
• Pop Art
• Psychedelic
• Push Pin

10

Tues

3/9

Quiz 8

On Our Own Time

• Post Modernism
• Multimedia
• The digital revolution

pp. 421–432

Thur

3/11

Final presentations