ART-103A A Survey of World Art History Fall 2009
 

(This Calendar is subject to change) August 31 Syllabus Chaco Canyon Video I also suggest that you sign up for HIST 104A Western Civilization with a World Perspective.  A survey of civilization in the Mediterranean through the beginning of early modern history with a look at other world cultures. Lesson Plans Sept 2 Navajo and Anasazi  Navajo  Sept 4-9 Starter Kit NW coast  NW coast 2 NW coast 3 Prehistory  Read Stokstad  Introduction and Starter Kit Chapter 12 - Art of the Americas before 1300 Chapter 26 - Art of the Americas after 1300 Chapter 1 — Prehistoric Art in Europe Chapter 2 - Art of the Ancient Near East Read Mencher Liaisons 1-5 (How to Use This Book) 7-12 (How Raven Stole the Sun) What is cheating? Read Online Starter Kit Read Key Concepts, Form, Iconography and Context Southwest Cultures of the Americas Northwest Cultures of the Americas Prehistoric Cultures Sept 16-18 The Ancient Near East Stratigraphy China Neolithic Era 5000-2000 BCE China c1700-221 BCE Shang and Zhou  China 221BCE-907CE The Qin  China 221BCE-907CE The Han  Work Sheet #1 Due Sept 18 Chatal Huyuk and Mesopotamia  Ur Treasures from the ROYAL TOMBS of Ur http://www.usc.edu/dept/LAS/religion/arcproj/war/EssayFive.html Mencher Liaisons 9-11 (The Assyro-Babylonian FAQ) Read On-line Starter Kit Read The Raven and Archer Yi Mencher Liaisons 147-158 (The Treatise and Didactic Text in Chinese Culture) Neolithic China  Zhou and Shang  Shang Bronzes Qin  Han  Read Stokstad  Chapter 9 - Art of South and Southeast Asia before 1200 Chapter 10 - Chinese and Korean Art before 1279  Sept 23-25 Early Egypt  Akhenaten's Egypt  Tut's Egypt  Tut's Egypt 2  Parallels to Tut's Egypt in Benin Art  Egypt  Press Release on the reconstruction of Tut's features Read Stokstad  Chapter 3 - Art of Ancient Egypt Akhenaton  Tut Sept 30-Oct 2 Aegean 2800 1100BCE Stratigraphy Crete's Minoan Civilization c1500 Mainland Greece, Tiryns c1500 Mycenae c1500 The Aegean to the Mainland Synthesis and Transition Orientalized and Archaic Greek Pottery The Cyclades Crete, Knossos, Minoan Early Mainland Greece  http://bruceowen.com/worldprehist/3250s13.htm Read Stokstad  Chapter 4  - Aegean Art Mencher Liaisons 24-46 (Irving Stone: The Greek Treasure Mycenae!)12-14 (The Blinding of Polythemus) Diagram of the entablature and orders of architecture  Geometric, Orientalizing, Archaic and Classic Greek Pottery Geometric, Orientalizing, and Archaic Greek Sculpture and Architecture Oct 7 Test #1 Study guide for Test #1  You don't turn this in.  Oct 12-14 Intro to the Golden Age The Acropolis Acropolis II (Nike Temple) Acropolis III (Propylea) Acropolis IV (The Parthenon) Acropolis V (Erechtheion) Read The Allegory of the Cave (REALLY REALLY IMPORTANT) Mencher Liaisons 49, 87-90 (Thucydides: Perikles' Funeral Oration)  Read Stokstad  Chapter 5 - Art of Ancient Greece Oct 9 We watch the Bacchae in Class (Plan on staying a half hour later)

Oct 21-23 Discussion of the Bacchae Greek Sculpture, The Geometric, Oriental and Archaic Periods Sculpture Golden Age Sculpture Golden Age to Late Hellenism Take Home Quiz on Tragedy Due Oct 22 "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  49-86 (Ovid "Semele") and (Euripedes "The Bacchae")  additional sources to help: Notes on the Bacchae and the Components of Greek Tragedy Aristotle's Elements of Theatre An online encyclopedia of Greek mythology Oct 28-30 Roman Sculpture  Roman Architecture  Pompeii  Pompeii 2 (Houses)  Pompeii 3 (Decorations and Fresco)  Pompeii, The Gods and Theater  Roman Art and Architecture Roman Art in Pompeii Read Stokstad  Chapter 6 - Etruscan and Roman Art Nov 2-4 VIDEO of the Popol Vuh Mesoamerica The Olmec  Mesoamerica Teotihuacan 1  Mesoamerica Teotihuacan 2  Mesoamerica Mayan  Read the following The Olmec Maya and the Acropolis of Teotihuacan A synopis of the Popol Vuh Re-Read Stokstad  Chapter 12 - Art of the Americas before 1300 Mencher Liaisons 49-50 & 91-99 (The Popol Vuh, The Mayan Book of the Dawn of Life) Optional: The Entire Text of the Popol Vuh Nov 9 Rob Anderson Pergamon       Jewish Art   Rome During the rise of Judeo Christian Period  Late Rome Early Christian Art in Rome Byzantine Constantinople, Hagia Sofia  Byzantine Italy, San Vitale, Ravenna Italy  Worksheet #2 Due Nov 6 Jewish Art Early Christian Art Byzantine Catacombs Read Stokstad  Chapter 7  - Jewish, Early Christian, and Byzantine Art Chapter 8 - Islamic Art Mencher Liaisons 15-21 (Selections from Genesis-Jacob and Esau) Nov 16 Test #2 (First hour of class) Study Guide for Test #2You don't turn this in. November 18  Catch up or get ahead day Nov 23 to  Nov 30 The Vienna Genesis a Byzantine Manuscript Islam, Muhammed, Calligraphy and Mosque Architecture  The Monastic System Romanesque Sculpture at Autun  Romanesque Architecture's basic schema  Pisa Cathedral  Gothic Manuscripts Islamic Art The Romanesque to Gothic Period Architecture Mencher Liaisons 22 (Psalm 91) 101-107 (The Treatise and Didactic Texts, Thomas Aquinas' "Five Ways")  Read Stokstad  Chapter 15 — Romanesque Art Chapter 16 - Gothic Art of the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries Chapter 17 — Fourteenth-Century Art in Europe Dec 2-7 Work Sheet #3 Due Dec 3rd Gothic Architecture  Italian Gothic Sculpture Italian Gothic Painting Cimabue, Giotto and St. Francis at Assisi Giotto's Painting, The Arena Chapel Gothic to Renaissance, Annunciations and Iconography, Martini and Duccio and Lorenzetti Berlinghieri, Cimabue, and Giotto Duccio Giotto, San Francesco The psychology of Perspective An Interactive Site about Perspective Giotto Arena Chapel Dr. Farber's Lecture on the Arena Chapel Duccio and the Maesta Altar Study Guide for Final  Final Exam Monday Dec 15 at 2:30-4:30 Study Guide for Final