AP Art History

AP Art History -Syllabus-- Instructor: Mrs. Lock Welcome to the History of Art! Art is all around us. It is our response to the world. Art reflects our hopes and doubts; it is the mirror of our dreams; it is the record of our struggle to find order and meaning in life; it is the journal of our search for identity in an increasingly complex matrix of possibility and failure, love and despair. Art is man's second nature made manifest. Power point presentations displaying images and text are the basis for lecture and discussion. This course reflects a college level introductory art history survey course will prepare you for the Advanced Placement Examination in Art History. Course format 1. Ancient through Medieval 30% a. The Ancient World i. The Aegean b. Greece and Roman c. Early Christian, Byzantine and Early Medieval d. Romanesque e. Gothic 2. Beyond European Tradition 20% a. Ancient art i. Prehistory (summer reading with a outline sent by e-mail) b. African art including Ancient Egypt c. The Americas d. Asia including Ancient Near East (summer reading with a outline sent by e-mail) e. Oceania f. Global Islamic traditions (discussions included in the Early Middle ages) 3. Renaissance to Present 50% a. Fourteenth through Sixteenth Centuries b. Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries c. Nineteenth Century d. Twentieth Century

Course Objectives Students will 1. Utilize the language of Art History 2. Explore the notion of style or the relationship of form to content 3. Recognize the relationship of works to each other and to their historical and cultural context. 4. Develop and understanding of art in context of the culture and time in which it was created. 5. Recognize, analyze and describe styles, context and content. 6. Develop ability to look at art critically and with the vocabulary of Art History articulate what is seen or experienced, especially in writing.

Primary text : Schneider Adams, Laurie, Art Across Time, 2nd edition, McGraw Hill

READINGS—— Your textbook is Art Across Time, a two-volume text by Laurie Schneider Adams. Art Across Time has an excellent website. It contains works of art and artists for each chapter, an on-line image bank, chapter quizzes and even essay questions. We will make extensive use of the site, plus other search engines, like http://witcombe.sbc.edu/ARTHLinks.html. Get to know them! Look at the supplemental resources below you will see information from these resources. All of the following resources are found in my room, copies are also found in the local library and some are available in our library.

Supplemental resources Kleiner, Mamiya and Tansey. Gardner’s Art Through the Ages, 10th Ed. Prentice Hall Stokstad, Marilyn. Art History. Revised 2nd edition, Prentice Hall Janson, H. W, and Anthony, History of Art, Revised 6th edition, Prentice Hall Schneider Adams, Laurie, Art Across Time, 3rd edition, McGraw Hill Strickland, Carol, The Annotated Mona Lisa. Pierce, James Smith, From Abacus to Zeus, A handbook of Art History, 6th edition, Prentice Hall Ellis, Esler, World History, Teachers Edition, Prentice Hall Barnet, Sylvan, A Short Guide to Writing about Art, 4th edition, Harper Collins

Additional publications Art in America Smithsonian Art News

Special Note: You are expected to see this class through to the end, and that end is the national Advanced Placement exam in Art History in May ,2014. For that reason, we will work hard all the way through April when we begin our review.

I am always available for an appointment, a help session, or just to talk things over anything. If you have any questions, get in touch with me and if I cannot help you, I will find someone who can. If you must be away when a test is to be given or if you are absent on the day of a test, the school regulations about making up exams apply. My makeup exams are different from my regularly scheduled exams. There is no excuse for not knowing what assignments are expected of you.

AP Art History is a taste of college. Since they will let you stand or fall on your own at college, I will not coddle you. Each week, I will expect you to do the reading. Take my word for it: there is a direct correlation between doing the homework and doing well on my quizzes . . . or, you can take your chances and find out for yourself. Either way, I think you will come over to my way of thinking. It just adds up. First Semester INTRODUCTION Weeks 1 —Introduction Why do we study Art? Text 1-24 and on-the-spot assignments. I. Non-Western Art Week 2—Early Asian Art and Late Asian Art Summer reading handout chapter 3 and 9 Week 3—Art of the Americas and African Art Summer reading handout chapter 15 and 16 NON-WESTERN EXAM

II. PART ONE- ANCIENT ART HISTORY Week 4—Art of Prehistory and Ancient Near East Text, Chapters 1 and 2 Week 5—Ancient Egypt and Aegean Text, Chapters 3 and 4 UNIT 1 EXAM- CHAPTER 1-4

III. PART TWO- THE ROOTS OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION Weeks 6-7—Art of Ancient Greece Text, Chapter 5 and 6 (intro) CHAPTER 5/6 EXAM Week 8-9—Art of the Etruscans and Ancient Rome Text, Chapter 6-7 Week 10— Early Christian and Byzantine Art Text, Chapter 8 CHAPTER 7/8 EXAM

IV. PART THREE- THE MIDDLE AGES Week 11—Early Middle Ages/ Islam Text, Chapter 9, Additional reading on Islam Week 12—Romanesque Art Text, Chapter 10 CHAPTER 9/10 EXAM Week 13—Gothic Art Text, Chapter 11 Week 14—Precursors of the Renaissance Text, Chapter 12 CHAPTER 11/12 EXAM

V. PART FOUR- THE RENAISSANCE & THE BAROQUE AND ROCOCO Week 15— The Early Renaissance (Italian) Text, Chapter 13 Week 16— Early Renaissance (Northern European) Text, Chapter 13-14 CHAPTER 13/14 EXAM Week 17- The High Renaissance in Rome/ Venice Text, Chapter 14 Week 18— Mannerism and the Later Sixteenth Century in Italy Text, Chapter 15 Second Semester

Week 1— Sixteenth Century Painting in Northern Europe Text, Chapter 16 CHAPTER 15/16 EXAM VI. PART FIVE- ART OF THE 17TH AND Early 18TH CENTURY Week 2— The Baroque Style in Western Europe Text, Chapter 17 Week 3— Rococo and the Eighteenth Century Text, Chapter 18 CHAPTER 17/18 EXAM VII. PART SIX-LATE 18TH AND 19TH CENTURY Week 4— Neoclassicism/ Romanticism: Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries Text, Chapter 19-20 Week 5— Nineteenth-Century Realism Text, Chapter 21 CHAPTER 19/20/21 EXAM Week 6— Nineteenth-Century Impressionism and Japanese Art (WTW)/ Post-Impressionism and the Late Nineteenth Century Text, Chapter 22-23 CHAPTER 22/23 EXAM

VIII. PART SEVEN- MODERN AND POSTMODERN WORLD Week 7— Turn of the Century: Early Picasso, Fauvism, Expressionism, and Matisse/ Cubism, Futurism and Related Twentieth Century Developments and African Art Text, Chapter 24-25 Week 8— Dada, Surrealism, Fantasy and America between the Wars Text, Chapter 26 CHAPTER 24/25/26 EXAM Week 9 — Abstract Expressionism-Field Painting & the 1960’s: Op, Pop, & Minimalism Text, Chapter 27 and 28 Week 10— Innovation and Continuity Text, Chapter 29 CHAPTER 27/28/29 EXAM

IX. AP REVIEW Week 11—-- Review, review, review!!!!!!!!!! Week 12—-- Review, review, review!!!!!!!!!! Week 13— AP Exam Review for AP Examination

AP Exam May 7, 2015….Afternoon