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College of Staten Island Department of Performance and Creative Arts Introduction to the Visual Arts ART 100 3 hours, 3 Credits Fall 2013 Tuesdays 4:40 6:30 pm Thursdays 4:40 5:30 pm Classroom 1P/228 Maria Laura Steverlynck Email: Maria.Steverlynck@csi.cuny.edu Office: 1P/203 Advising hours: Tuesdays & Thursdays 3:30 4:30 pm Course Description A selective examination of the materials and forms of the visual arts from antiquity to the present -including painting, sculpture, and architecture -- designed to provide students with a critical and historical framework for evaluating visual experience. Students will become familiar with core examples of Western material culture, art, design, and architecture emerging out of Europe and the Americas. Through the combination of slide lectures, videos, short writing assignments and a museum visit, students will explore themes such as the function of objects, their social and historical contexts, materials and techniques of production, conventions of representations, and the artists role. The course will pose the following questions: What is art? Is the appearance, or form of an art or design object its most important element? Is iconography an essential component? What role does religion, biography, psychology, philosophy, society and politics play in the production of material culture, artmaking, design, and perception? Learning Outcomes At the end of this semester, students should be able to: Exhibit familiarity with the major art and design works, makers, and movements in world art and design from Antiquity to our contemporary moment. Become familiar with the core vocabulary, and themes expressed through the visual arts Exhibit familiarity with the social, cultural, political and religious contexts of art and design making; Students will be able to clearly describe and critically analyze works of art.

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Final Grade Calculation Participation /Quizzes Museum Paper Midterm Final Exam TOTAL

20% 30% 25% 25% 100%

ASSIGNMENTS 1. Quizzes and Participation Participation is a very important component of this course. Participation means to come to class prepared and engage actively with the class material. I will be giving you quizzes sporadically throughout the semester. In exception of the first quiz, which will be test you knowledge and understanding of this syllabus, these quizzes are meant to serve as practice for the midterm and final exams. Each quiz will be made up of 5 multiple-choice questions. They will be graded in a check, check plus or check minus scale, the average of these quizzes will count towards your participation grade. 2. Midterm and Final Exams Your MIDTERM EXAM DATE is OCTOBER 17 and FINAL EXAM DATE is DECEMBER 19 Please keep in mind that NO MAKE-UP EXAMS will be given. If you are absent on the day of the exams and have no documented excuse, you will automatically receive a zero grade for the exam and that will be factored into the average of the course. Both exams will consist of 25 multiple-choice questions and 2 long comparison essay questions. The multiple choice questions are worth 2 points each (50 points in total) and the comparison questions are worth 25 points each (50 points total). The multiple-choice portion of the exam will test your understating of the general information about the artworks seen in class. You will be asked to identify facts such as who the artist or cultures that made the artwork and how its an example of a style and/or an era. For each comparison I will show you two images and ask you to compare and contrast them in a short essay format. These comparison questions will require you to analyze the artworks comparatively and to connect them to general themes discussed in the course. We will make comparison exercises together in every class meeting for practice. Every week I will be posting a list of images covered in class. These are the images you will be tested on and are responsible to study for these exams. 3. Museum Formal Analysis Paper On September 28 we will meet at the Metropolitan Museum of Art at 10 am. During the visit I want you to look around the galleries of the museum and select an artwork you really like, or just intrigues you. The assignment for this visit is to write a formal analysis of the selected

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artwork. I will talk about this assignment in the next few classes and post specifics on this assignment on Blackboard. The paper will be due on October 8. I will not accept any emailed papers. All late papers will be penalized with one letter grade for each day after the deadline. I will not accept papers after October 22.

RECOMMENDED TEXTBOOK Most readings for this class will be in: Marylin Stokstad & Micheal W. Cothren, Art: A Brief History. 5th Edition. Pearson, 2011. ISBN: 0205017029. The textbook will be on reserve at the library, or you can find it at the CSI bookstore. It is also available to purchase online on amazon for $106.89, you can also rent it for $29.49, and if you have a digital device that supports kindle you can get it for $74.90. Copies of earlier editions cost less. All of the images we will be discussing in class appear in this textbook. Other readings outside of this text will be made available on Blackboard under Reading Assignments. RECOMMENDED WEBS SOURCES Smarthistory.org is a site that acts as an interactive textbook with videos of the major artworks explained by experts in the field. These videos are short and can be helpful for preparing before class, or for reviewing before quizzes, and your midterm/final exams. The site also has a great glossary of art historical terms which can be helpful when you are unsure of the use and/or meaning of these terms. Another helpful source is the Metropolitan Museum of Arts website (www.metmuseum.org) and its Timeline of Art History (www.metmuseum.org/toah/) are both highly recommended. The timeline is a great tool for understating better the museums collection in a broader historical context. SCHOOL RESROUCES Library The campus has a great library. I am currently in the process of scheduling a guest speaker to come into the classroom and talk to you about the use of the library. In the meantime, I encourage you to visit it and become familiar with its website. After the class visit we will be having several in-class workshops on how to use the library and its resources appropriately. Blackboard Email & Blackboard: It is CRUCIAL that you check your email and blackboard site regularly since I will be communicating important announcements and handouts for the class through them. All the course documents (updated syllabus, Image lists and study guides for the midterm and final exams) will be posted under Course Documents. Supplementary readings will be posted under Reading Assignments.

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CLASS POLICIES Attendance I will take attendance at the beginning of each class. Attendance is mandatory and students are expected to attend all class meetings except in case of serious illness or emergency. Everyone gets 2 absence with no questions asked. Additional absences will reduce your final grade by one point. Students must not arrive late to class you should not leave the classroom during the class session except in cases of emergency. Lateness will negatively affect your final grade. Please, make every effort to come to class on time. Responsibility Students are responsible for all assignments, even if they are absent. Late papers, failure to complete the readings assigned for class discussion, and lack of preparedness for in-class discussions and presentations will jeopardize your successful completion of this course. Email Correspondence Students are expected to compose their emails with the proper writing etiquette. Such as: Writing in full sentences and using proper grammar. Remember you are not text messaging your instructor! All correspondence should be done with the students College of Staten Island email address. Laptop use in the classroom Given their persistent abuse, laptop usage during the allotted class time is not allowed. Cell phone use in the classroom Given the persistent abuse of cell phones, their use (including text messaging ) during the allotted class time is not allowed. Participation Class participation is an essential part of class and includes: keeping up with reading, contributing meaningfully to class discussions, active participation in group work, and coming to class regularly and on time. Plagiarism & Cheating Plagiarism is the use of another person's words or ideas in any academic work using books, journals, Internet postings, or other student papers without proper acknowledgment. Examples of this include using an author's words in your own essay and not citing them; paraphrasing an author's wordsthat is changing the exact wording but lifting the exact meaningand not citing them. If a student is caught cheating on an exam or having plagiarized an assignment, he/she will receive an F for the exam/ assignment and will be reported to the Dean of Students. Delays In rare instances, I may be delayed arriving to class. If I have not arrived by the time class is scheduled to start, you must wait a minimum of fifteen minutes for my arrival. In the event that I will miss class entirely, a sign will be posted at the classroom indicating your assignment for the next class meeting.

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Course Outline Weekly Topic WEEK 1

Date August 29

Class Topic Introduction

Assignments
Stokstad. Introduction, Pg. 1-17 Stokstad. Ch.1 Prehistoric Art in Europe, Pg. 18-31.

WEEK 2 Prehistory

September 3 September 5

Prehistoric Art - Syllabus Quiz No Classes at CSI Ancient Egypt Ancient Egypt Review Aegean and Early Greek Art - Quiz Late Classical and Hellenstic Greek Art

WEEK 3 Art of Ancient Egypt

September 10 September 12

Stokstad. Ch. 3 Art of Ancient Egypt, pg. 48-59. Stokstad. Ch. 3 Art of Ancient Egypt, pg. 59-67. Stokstad. Ch. 5 Art of Ancient Greece and the Aegean World. Pg. 92118. Stokstad. Ch. 5 Art of Ancient Greece and the Aegean World. Pg. 118128. Stokstad. Ch. 6 Etruscan and Roman Art. Pg. 128143. Stokstad. Ch. 6 Etruscan and Roman Art. Pg. 148157.

WEEK 4 Ancient Greek Art

September 17

September 19

WEEK 5 Roman Art

September 24 September 26

Etruscan and Early Roman Art Imperial Roman Art

WEEK 6 October 1 Early Christian/Jewish & Byzantine Art October 3

Early Christian/Jewish & Stokstad. Ch. 7. Jewish, Early Christian and Byzantine Art
Byzantine Art. Pg. 158183.

Class Cancelled Due to Museum Visit 9/28 Early Medieval Art

- Museum Paper Due Stokstad. Ch10 Early Medieval and Romanesque Art. Pg. 232-247. Stokstad. Ch10 Early Medieval and

WEEK 7 Romanesque Art

October 8

October 10

Romanesque Art and Architecture

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Romanesque Art. Pg. 247-259.

WEEK 8 Midterm Exam

October 15 October 17

NO CLASS - CSI Follows a Wednesday Schedule Midterm Exam Gothic Art in France - Quiz Gothic Art in England and Italy
Stokstad. Ch. 11 Gothic Art, pg. 260-277. Stokstad. Ch. 11 Gothic Art, pg. 277-291.

WEEK 9 Gothic Art

October 22 October 24

WEEK 9 Renaissance Art

October 29 October 31

Early Renaissance Art Art of the High Renaissance and the Reformation Baroque Rome & Spain Baroque Flanders & Dutch Republic Neo-Classicism in France and England - Quiz Romanticism

Stokstad. Ch. 12 Early Renaissance Art. Pg. 292323. Stokstad. Ch. 13 Art of the High Renaissance and Reformation Pg. 324365. Stokstad. Ch. 14 Seventeenth Century Art in Europe pg. 366-383. Stokstad. Ch. 14 Seventeenth Century Art in Europe pg. 383-401. Stokstad. Ch. 17 European & American Art, 1715-1840 pg. 446464. Stokstad. Ch. 17 European & American Art, 1715-1840 pg. 464473. Stokstad. Ch. 18 European & American Art, 1840-1910. Pg. 474485.

WEEK 10 Baroque Art

November 5 November 7

WEEK 11 November 12 European and American Art, 1715-1840 November 14

WEEK 12 November 19 European and American Art, 1840-1910 November 21

Architecture, the Academy & Art Nouveau Thanksgiving CSI Closed Early Photography/ Realism

WEEK 13 November 26 European and American

Stokstad. Ch. 18 European & American

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Art, 1840-1910 (cont.) November 28 Impressionism & PostImpressionism

Art, 1840-1910. Pg. 485495. Stokstad. Ch. 18 European & American Art, 1840-1910. Pg. 495509. Stokstad. Ch. 19 Modern Art in Europes and the Americas, 1900-1945. Pg. 510-539. Stokstad. Ch. 19 Modern Art in Europes and the Americas, 1900-1945. Pg. 539-549.

WEEK 14 Modern Art 1900-1945

December 3

December 5

Early Modernism in Europe and the United States - Quiz North American Art Between the Wars

WEEK 15 Art Since 1945

December 10

December 12 WEEK 16 December 17 December 19

Abstract Expressionism/ Stokstad. Ch. 20 Art Since 1945. Pg. 550-575. Pop Art & Conceptual Art Stokstad. Ch. 20 Art Postmodernism
Since 1945. Pg. 575-591.

Review Day Final Exam