Table of Contents
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Introduction
Elements and Principles of Design
- Why It Matters
- Form and Content
- Reading: Formalism and Content
- Video: Introducing Formal Analysis: Landscape
- Elements of Design
- Reading: Artistic Elements
- Videos: Elements of Art
- Principles of Design
- Reading: Artistic Principles
- Types of Representation
- Reading: Representational, Abstract, and Nonrepresentational Art
- Putting It Together
What Is Art?
- Why It Matters
- Art as a kind of communication and expression of culture
- Reading: Defining Art from the Medieval Period to Renaissance
- Reading: Defining Art from the Academy to Avant-Garde
- Reading: Defining Art from Modernity to Globalization
- Purposes of Art
- Reading: Purpose of Art
- Aesthetics
- Reading: Art, Aesthetics, and Beauty
- Perception and Value
- Reading: Value Judgment
- The Ongoing Definition of Art
- Reading: Defining Art
- Putting It Together
Context and Perspective
- Why It Matters
- Video: Art and Context
- Perspective
- Reading: Perspective
- Subjective vs. Objective Analysis
- Reading: How We See: Objective and Subjective Means
- Context
- Reading: Context
- Critical Modalities
- Reading: Critical Modalities
- Cultural and World Perspective
- Reading: Crossing Cultures, the artwork of Kehinde Wiley
- Symbolism
- Reading: Analyzing Symbols
- Reading: Iconographic Analysis
- Putting It Together
Periods in Art History
- Why It Matters
- Key Characteristics of Art: Prehistory
- Reading: Prehistoric Art: Paleolithic Origins
- Reading: The Neolithic Revolution
- Reading: Ancient Near East
- Reading: Ancient Egypt
- Reading: Ancient Greece and Rome
- Key Characteristics of Art: Age of Faith
- Reading: The Medieval and Byzantine Eras
- Reading: Early Christian Art
- Reading: Church Architecture
- Reading: Arts of the Islamic World: the Early Period
- Reading: Introduction to Mosque Architecture
- Reading: Romanesque
- Reading: Gothic Architecture
- Reading: Neo-Confucianism and Fan Kuan’s Travelers by Streams and Mountains
- Reading: Shiva As Lord of the Dance (Nataraja)
- Reading: Classic Maya Portrait Stelae
- Key Characteristics of Art: Renaissance through Baroque
- Reading: Florence in the Trecento (1300s)
- Reading: Florence in the Early Renaissance
- Video: Linear Perspective: Brunelleschi's Experiement
- Video: How One-Point Linear Perspective Works
- Video: Rogier van der Weyden, Deposition, c. 1435
- Reading: Toward the High Renaissance
- Reading: 1500–1600 End of the Renaissance and the Reformation
- Reading: The Baroque: Art, Politics, and Religion in Seventeenth-Century Europe
- Key Characteristics of Art: Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
- Reading: Fragonard's The Swing
- Reading: 1700–1800 Age of Enlightenment
- Reading: Neo-Classicism
- Reading: David's Death of Marat
- Reading: Romanticism in France Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People
- Video: Charles Barry and A.W.N. Pugin Palace of Westminster (Houses of Parliament)
- Reading: Hokusai’s Under the Wave off Kanagawa (The Great Wave)
- Reading: Becoming Modern
- Reading: Early Photography
- Reading: Impressionism
- Reading: Nkisi Nkondi
- Key Characteristics of Art: 1900 to the Present
- Reading: Cubism and Picasso's Still Life with Chair Caning
- Video: Wassily Kandinsky, Composition VII, 1913, Abstract Expressionism
- Reading: British Art and Literature During WWI
- Reading: Italian Futurism: An Introduction
- Reading: Dada and Surrealism
- Reading: Art in Nazi Germany
- Reading: The Origins of Abstract Expressionism
- Reading: Photography
- Reading: Contemporary Art
- Reading: Warhol's Gold Marilyn Monroe
- Reading: Conceptual Art
- Reading: Mary Kelly's Post-Partum Document
- Reading: Appropriation (The “Pictures Generation”)
- Compare Artworks—Similar Period
- Reading: Modern Storytellers: Romare Bearden, Jacob Lawrence, Faith Ringgold
- Compare Artworks—Different Periods and Cultures
- Reading: African Influences in Modern Art
- Historical Influence of Art
- Reading: Classical Art and Modern Dress
- Putting It Together
Fine Art Media and Technique
- Why It Matters
- Two-Dimensional Arts
- Reading: Drawing
- Reading: Painting
- Reading: Printmaking
- Reading: Photography
- Three-Dimensional Techniques
- Reading: Types of Sculpture and Other Three-Dimensional Media
- Reading: Methods
- Reading: Installation Art
- Architecture
- Reading: Design, Methods, and Materials
- Time-Based Art
- Reading: Time-Based Media: Film and Video
- Digital Technology
- Reading: Digital Technology and Art of the 21st Century
- Putting It Together
Research, Communicate, and Evaluate Arts Information
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