Schedule

DATE

TITLE

TOPIC

READING

ASSIGNMENTS

PART ONE: RENAISSANCE TO MODERN EUROPE

AUG
17

INTRODUCTION

AUG
22

WHAT IS ART?

AUG
24

WHAT IS ART
HISTORY?

AUG
29

AUG
31

Overview of
course content,
approach,
resources, and
assignments
Art Through
Introduction to art the Ages,
Introduction
(Pages 1-13)
Art Through the
Introduction
Ages,
to the study of
Introduction
art
(Pages 1-13)

The art of 15TH

RENAISSANCE 1: century Europe:
THE EARLY
Burgundy and
RENAISSANCE
Flanders, France,
IN EUROPE
Holy Roman
Empire
RENAISSANCE 2:
THE EARLY
The art of 15th
RENAISSANCE
century Italy
IN ITALY

SEPT
NO CLASS
5

Art Through the

Ages, Ch. 8
(Pages 217229)

Required
Materials Check

Quiz
Masterpiece
Project Sign Up

Quiz

Art Through the

Ages, Ch. 8
(Pages 2229249

Quiz

Art Through the

Ages, Ch. 9
(Pages 251268)

Quiz
Online
Discussion 1
Masterpiece
Project Outline

Art Through the

Ages, Ch. 9
(Pages 272-

Quiz

LABOR DAY

The High
RENAISSANCE 3: Renaissance in
SEPT
THE HIGH
Italy: Leonardo,
7
RENAISSANCE
Raphael,
Michelangelo
The art of 16th
SEPT RENAISSANCE 4:
century Europe:
12
EUROPE
Holy Roman

Empire,
Netherlands,
Spain
SEPT THE BAROQUE
14
1: ITALY

The art of 17th

century Italy and
Spain

THE BAROQUE
SEPT
2: NORTHERN
19
EUROPE

The art of 17th

century Flanders,
Dutch Republic,
France

ART AND
SEPT SCIENCE: THE
21
CASE OF
VERMEER

Investigating the
methods of Jan
Vermeer

EIGHTEENTH
SEPT
CENTURY
26
EUROPE

Neoclassicism
and the art of the
Enlightenment

NINETEENTH
SEPT CENTURY
28
EUROPE 1:
ROMANTICISM

Romanticism in
the early 19th
century

OCT
3

OCT
5
OCT
10
OCT
12

NINETEENTH
CENTURY
EUROPE 2:
REALISM and
PHOTOGRAPHY
NINETEENTH
CENTURY
EUROPE 2:
REALISM and
PHOTOGRAPHY
PART ONE
REVIEW
PART ONE
REVIEW

OCT
17

MASTERPIECE
PROJECT
PRESENTATION
S

OCT

MIDTERM

282)
Art Through the
Ages, Ch. 10
(Pages 285297)
Art Through the
Ages, Ch. 10
(Pages 298311)
Film: Tims
Vermeer
Art Through the
Ages, Ch. 11
(Pages 313329)
Art Through the
Ages, Ch. 12
(Pages 330341)

Quiz

Quiz

Online
Discussion 2

Quiz

Quiz

Realism in the
mid 19th century
and the invention
of photography

Art Through the

Ages, Ch. 12
(Pages 341348, 351-355)

Quiz
Masterpiece
Project (Part
One): ART
GUIDE DUE
OCT 3

Realism in the
mid19th century
and the invention
of photography

Art Through the

Ages, Ch. 12
(Pages 341348, 351-355)

Art Guide
Review

Review and recap

of Part One
Review and recap
of Part One
Student
presentations of
projects from Part
One

Masterpiece
Project (Part
One):
PRESENTATIO
N OCT 17
Midterm Exam

19
PART TWO: MODERNISM, POSTMODERNISM, AND BEYOND

OCT
24

BIRTH OF THE
MODERN:
IMPRESSIONISM
and POST
IMPRESSIONISM

Art in the wake of

Courbet and
Manet:
Impressionists
and Post
Impressionists
Art in Europe
before the war:
Expressionism
and Abstraction

OCT
26

MODERNISM 1:
AVANT GARDE

OCT
31

MODERNISM 2:
FILM AND ITS
IMPACT

NOV
2

Dada and the

MODERNISM 3:
Surrealists,
DISCONTENTS and
Suprematism and
IDEALISTS
De Stijl

NOV
7

NOV
9

NOV
14

MODERNISM 4:
THE AMERICAS
MODERNISM 5:
POST WAR
ABSTRACTION
POSTMODERNISM
1: POP AND
PROTEST

The birth of film

and its impact.

Modernism in the
U.S. and Mexico

Abstraction in the
U.S. after WW II.
Moving beyond
Modernism: Pop
Art and Feminist
Art

Art Through the

Ages, Ch. 13
(Pages 356375)
Art Through the
Ages, Ch. 14
(Pages 376386)
Film: Picasso
and Braque Go
to the Movies
Art Through the
Ages, Ch. 14
(Pages 386390, 394-399)
Art Through the
Ages, Ch. 14
(Pages 390393, 399-405)
Art Through the
Ages, Ch. 15
(Pages 410420)
Art Through the
Ages, Ch. 15
(Pages 420428)

Quiz

Quiz
Online
Discussion 3
Quiz

Quiz
Quiz
Online
Discussion 4
Quiz

Quiz

NOV
16

MUSEUM FIELD
TRIP 1:
INTRODUCTION
AND PREP

Introduction to
museum and
logistics.

Museum Field
Trip (Details
TBD)
Masterpiece
Project (Part
Two): ART
GUIDE DUE
NOV 18

NOV
21

MUSEUM FIELD
TRIP 2:
REFLECTION

Reflection on field
trip experience

Reflection

NOV
23

POSTMODERNISM
2: WHAT IS ART?

NOV
28

CONTEMPORARY
ART 1: SOCIAL
CRITIQUE

NOV
30
DEC
5
DEC
7
DEC
12

CONTEMPORARY
ART 2:
REPRESENTATION
AND
ABSTRACTION
PART TWO
REVIEW

Moving beyond
Modernism: Earth
Art, Conceptual
Art, Performance
Art, New Media
Engaging issues
of identity,
gender, sexuality,
and power
The return of the
figure and
abstraction in art
and architecture

Art Through the

Ages, Ch. 15
(Pages 432437)

Quiz
Online
Discussion 5

Art Through the

Ages, Ch. 16
(Pages 438448)

Quiz

Art Through the

Ages, Ch. 16
(Pages 448459)

Quiz

Review and recap

of Part Two

MASTERPIECE
PROJECT
PRESENTATIONS

Student
presentations of
projects from Part
Two

Masterpiece
Project (Part
Two):
PRESENTATIO
N DEC 7

FINAL

Our final is
scheduled for
12:30-2:30

Final Exam