101 Fall 2009

Art 101 (Prof. Mencher)
Syllabus
Tuesday Thursday Afternoons 2:15-3:50 Room 2133
(This Calendar is subject to change)

September 2009


Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
	31 First Day of Class	1 Syllabus Syllabus and Requirements Art of the Western World, The Classical Tradition http://www.learner.org/ resources/series1.html	2	3 Forms of Analysis Read Key Concepts, Form, Iconography and Context Sayre, *A World of Art,* Chapter 2 Developing Visual Literacy Chapter 3 Themes in Art Chapter 9 Principles of Design	4 Last day to add full-term class WITHOUT instructor's signature Last day that students are added into classes from the waitlist	5
6	7 Labor Day	8 Starter Kit Read Mencher *Liaisons* 1-5 (How to Use This Book) Starter Kit Sayre, *A World of Art,* Chapter 5 Formal Elements	9	10 Classical Philosophy Sayre, *A World of Art,* Chapter 18 Focus on Greek and Roman Art Read The Allegory of the Cave Mencher *Liaisons* 49, 87-90 (Thucydides: Perikles' Funeral Oration) Sayre, *A World of Art,* Chapter 16 "Architecture" What is cheating?	11	12
13 Last day to add full-term class (requires instructor's signature) Last day to drop full-term class without a W grade Last day to submit petition to audit full-term class	14	15 The Acropolis Understanding Labels Sayre, *A World of Art,* Chapter 14 Sculpture What is cheating?	16	17 Classic Sculpture Hellenistic Sculpture "The Acropolis" The Panathenaic Concept and Victory "The Acropolis" The Parthenon and its Sculptures "The Acropolis" The Erectheion and its Caryatids Sculpture during the "Golden Age of Perikles" Late Hellenistic Art	18	19
20	21	22 How to do a worksheet Quiz 1 Today Roman Sculpture Roman Architecture Roman Art and Architecture	23	24 Meet in the Art Gallery for class today in the lobby of the Smith Center	25 Last day to petition to complete class on a pass/no pass basis	26 FSO Performance 8PM "Atelier Show" Reception in Smith Center Art Gallery 7PM YOU MUST ATTEND THIS
27	28 Email version Version Due Monday September 28th by Midnight E-mail the paper either as an attachment or in the body of the e-mail.	29 Worksheet on Classics Due If you are late to class I will not accept this assignment it will be a zero and you fail the class entirely. Byzantine Art Early Christian Art Byzantine Sayre, *A World of Art,* Chapter 19 Focus on Christian Era Art	30

October 2009

November 2009


Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
1	2 Pergamon Show Opens	3 Quiz 4 Today Michelangelo and Mannerism Bernini's David Bernini's Cornaro Chapel 1647-1652 The Carracci Caravaggio The Baroque Style: The Caravaggisti The Story of Susanna and the Elders Mencher, Liaisons 197-214 Read Judith and Holofernes and Susanna and the Elders	4	5 Rob Anderson Comes to class and speaks about his drawings of the Pergamon Altar	6	7 "Atelier Show" Reception in Smith Center Art Gallery 7PM YOU MUST ATTEND THIS
8	9	10 Bernini Baroque Painting Read Sayre Chapter 9 Principals of Design Vermeer Velasquez Baroque Caravaggisti Mencher, Liaisons 219-224 Two Perspectives	11 Veteran's Day	12 Vermeer The Social Contract Read Mencher, Liaisons 139-144, Excerpts from The Social Contract *(Possible Quiz on this)*	13	14
15	16	17 Worksheet Classic to Baroque Art due If you are late to class I will not accept this test it will be a zero Neoclassicism History Painting & Neoclassicism Female Painters Neoclassic Holdouts & Romantics Romanticism Sayre, *A World of Art,* Chapter 21 "The 18th and 19th Centuries"	18	19 Field Trip to Stanford's Art Museum Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University Please be on the front steps at 4 PM sharp You must attend one of the field trips this week. Last day to drop from full-term classes with a W grade	20	21 Field Trip to Stanford's Art Museum Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University Please be on the front steps at 11:00am sharp You must attend one of the field trips this week.
22	23	24 Orientalism Romanticism Read Mencher, Liaisons 265-276 Excerpts from Weird Science and Romantic Notions "Imaginary Orient" by Linda Nochlin on Reserve in the Library "Imaginary Orient" by Linda Nochlin (also available on Reserve in the Library) Read Mencher, Liaisons 279-288The Imaginary and not so Imaginary Orients	25	26 Thanksgiving	27 Thanksgiving	28
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December 2009