Accident update

INTRODUCTION

1.

Introduction to course, purposes of art, artistic approaches to truth

THE FOUNDATIONS: ART AS STATEMENT

2.	50-61		Sumerian and Akkadian art
3.	62-75		Egyptian Art: Early Dynastic to Middle Kingdom
4.	75-93		Minoan, Mycenean and Hittite art
5.	93-112		Egyptian New Kingdom and Babylonian art
6.			1ST REVIEW: terms, concepts, comparisons

THE CULMINATION: CLASSICAL ART

7.	126-135		Archaic Greece, kouroi and korai, drawing
8.	136-152		Classical Greece: Temples, Orders, Idealization ...........

NEW IDEAS: ART AS OBSERVATION AND DIALOGUE

9.	152-159		Late Classical Greece: naturalism (to Cnidian Venus)
10.	159-164		Scythians and Celts, pattern, fantasy, movement
11.	165-172		Etruscans, character, portraiture, humor
12.	172-186		Hellenistic sculpture, energy, violence, excitement, pathos
13.	186-193		Hellenistic and Roman painting, perspective, style

Accident, 26th October, 2000

Questions? , use the ariadne address given here to get me at home. NOTE that classes have resumed! Unit 15 is for Tuesday.

THE OLDEST IDEAS OF ALL

14.			2ND REVIEW: terms, concepts, comparisons DONE
15.	34-49		Prehistoric Art - read pages 34-49 & remember the Lascaux video, AND visit the prehistoric links in the accident link and, better yet also the ones in the art history browser Professor is back in class. This unit is for Tuesday 7th November. SEE YOU IN CLASS!!

ART FOR DOMINATION

16.	193-215		10-question in-class-graded optional quiz #1: Compositions, truth-types, idealization Class topic: Roman architecture and sculpture
17.	296-311		10-question in-class-graded optional quiz #2: Classical Beauty, Classical beliefs about truth, visual truth in detail Class topic: Early Christian Art, symbolism, churches
18.	311-323		MERGED WITH UNIT 19 (just scan the readings - look at S Vitale and S Apollinare Nuovo) Byzantine Architecture, architectural and visual miracles
19.	323-328		10-question in-class-graded optional quiz #3: symbolic truth, Early Christian Art, components of the Mass (names for bread, wine, and sacrificial table, name of miraculous process) & Christian symbols introduced in unit 17. Class topic: Byzantine Art: ambiguity & architectural miracles, icons, Iconoclasm
THANKSGIVING RECESS
20.	329-332		10-question in-class-graded optional quiz #4: Problems of 2nd Commandment (discussed last time, with new vocab), Icons, Iconoclasm Class topic: Insular Art, complexity, symbolic abstractions
21.			3RD REVIEW: terms, concepts, comparisons, styles (we'll think about this nearer the time, depending on success of in-class quizzes)

STYLE AS MEANING

22.	332-340		MERGED WITH UNIT 23 - scan the reading, concentrate on Aachen Palace Chapel 10-question in-class-graded optional quiz #5: (details to be announced) Carolingian architecture
23.	364-381		10-question in-class-graded optional quiz #6: (details to be announced) The Millennium & its issues: sculpture and vaults
24.	381-383		MERGED WITH UNIT 25 - scan the reading, concentrate on vault structure 10-question in-class-graded optional quiz #6: (details to be announced) High Romanesque architecture, vaulting solutions
25.	383-394		10-question in-class-graded optional quiz #7: (details to be announced) French Gothic Architecture (vaults and stained glass)
26.	394-400		CANCELLED, sadly - scan the reading if liked, note sudden change from "Roman" sculpture style to "Gothic" in year 1245 Gothic sculpture: style as politics
27.			4TH REVIEW: terms, concepts, comparisons, styles

ART AND CHURCH REFORM

28.	400-421		Italian Gothic, the icon as altarpiece; Giotto & realism
29.			CANCELLED, sadly - review course, if liked, and note chronology & logic of expanding artistic concepts and purposes. Note especially sound reasons for non-realism, and that art impacts society as as well as reflecting it. PREPARED DISCUSSION: Conclusion