Week 1:
Monday, August 20: Introduction: What is Art?: A Negative Definition
Wednesday, August 22: World Art and Visual Culture: Homo Sacer, Homo Politicus, Homo Economicus:
Readings: (World of Art): “A World of Art,” pp. 9-22; “Developing Visual Literacy,” pp. 23-41; ”The Themes of Art,” pp. 42-62; ”Seeing the Value of Art,” pp. 63-79
Week 2:
Monday, August 27: Technology and Art: Techne and Representation:
Readings: (World of Art): “Line,” pp. 81-99; “Space,” pp. 100-18; ”Light and Color,” pp. 119-50
Wednesday, August 29: The Radical Contingency Between Art, Architecture, and Design: A Short History:
Readings: (World of Art): “Other formal elements,” pp. 151-65; “The principles of design,” pp. 166-93
Week 3:
Monday, September 3: Labor Day
Wednesday, September 5: The Principles of World Art I: The Phenomenology of Art: Real and Virtual Space:
Readings: (Art Through the Ages): “The Subjects and Vocabulary of Art History,” pp. 1-13
Readings: (World of Art): “Architecture,” pp. 354-87; “Design,” pp. 388-416
Week 4: (quiz 1)
Monday, September 10: The Principles of World Art II: Places:
Readings: (World of Art): “Drawing,” pp. 195-219; “Printmaking,” pp. 220-43; “Painting,” pp. 244-271
Wednesday, September 12: The Principles of World Art III: Images:
Readings (World of Art): “Sculpture,” pp. 272-97; “Other three-dimensional media,” pp. 298-326; ”The camera arts,” pp. 327-53
Week 5: (quiz 2)
Monday, September 17: The Birth of Art: Africa, Europe, and the Near East in the Stone Age:
Readings: (Art Through the Ages): Chapter 1, pp. 15-28
Wednesday, September 19: The Rise of Civilization: The Art of the Ancient Near East:
Readings: (Art Through the Ages): Chapter 2, pp. 31-52
Week 6: (quiz 3)
Monday, September 24: Pharaohs and the Afterlife: The Art of Ancient Egypt:
Readings: (Art Through the Ages): Chapter 3, pp. 55-82
Wednesday, September 26: Pharaohs and the Afterlife: The Art of Ancient Egypt:
Readings: (Art Through the Ages): Chapter 3, pp. 55-82
Week 7: (quiz 4)
Monday, October 1: Minos and the Heroes of Homer: The Art of the Prehistoric Aegean:
Readings: (Art Through the Ages): Chapter 4, pp. 85-102
Wednesday, October 3: Gods, Heroes, and Athletes: The Art of Ancient Greece:
Readings: (Art Through the Ages): Chapter 5, pp. 105-45
Week 8:
Monday, October 8: Gods, Heroes, and Athletes: The Art of Ancient Greece:
Readings: (Art Through the Ages): Chapter 5, pp. 145-64
Wednesday, October 10: MIDTERM
Week 9:
Monday, October 15: Paths to Enlightenment: The Art of South and Southeast Asia before 1200; The Silk Road and Beyond: The Art of Early China and Korea:
Readings: (Art Through the Ages): Chapter 6, pp. 167-88
Readings: (Art Through the Ages): Chapter 7, pp. 191-214
Wednesday, October 17: Shrines, Statues, and Scrolls: The Art of Early Japan:
Readings: (Art Through the Ages): Chapter 8, pp. 217-30
Week 10: (quiz 5)
Monday, October 22: Italy before the Romans: The Art of the Etruscans; From Seven Hills to Three Continents: The Art of Ancient Rome (I):
Readings: (Art Through the Ages): Chapter 9, 233-44; Chapter 10, pp. 247-74
Wednesday, October 24: From Seven Hills to Three Continents: The Art of Ancient Rome (II); Pagans, Christians, and Jews: The Art of Late Antiquity (I):
Readings: (Art Through the Ages): Chapter 10, 274-98; Chapter 11, pp. 301-11
Week 11: (quiz 6)
Monday, October 29: Pagans, Christians, and Jews: The Art of Late Antiquity (II);
Rome in the East: The Art of Byzantium (I):
Readings: (Art Through the Ages): Chapter 11, pp. 311-22; Chapter 12, 325-340
Wednesday, October 31: Rome in the East: The Art of Byzantium (II):
Readings: (Art Through the Ages): Chapter 12, pp. 340-54
Week 12: (quiz 7)
Monday, November 5: In Praise of Allah: The Art of the Islamic World:
Readings: (Art Through the Ages): Chapter 13, pp. 357-78
Wednesday, November 7: From Alaska to the Andes: Native Arts of the Americas before 1300; South from the Sahara: Early African Art:
Readings: (Art Through the Ages): Chapter 14, p. 381-406; Chapter 15, pp. 409-18
Week 13: (quiz 8)
Monday, November 12: Europe after the Fall of Rome: Early Medieval Art in the West:
Readings: (Art Through the Ages): Chapter 16, p. 421-44
Wednesday, November 14: The Age of Pilgrimages: Romanesque Art:
Readings: (Art Through the Ages): Chapter 17, pp. 447-76
Monday, November 19: Fall Break
Wednesday, November 21: Fall Break
Week 14:
Monday, November 26: No Lecture
Wednesday, November 28: The Age of the Great Cathedrals: Gothic Art:
Readings: (Art Through the Ages): Chapter 18, pp. 479-518
Week 15:
Monday, December 3: Conclusions (I): Art After the Renaissance and Reformation: The Disenchantment of the World: The Death of God and the End of Art
Wednesday, December 5: Conclusions (II): World Art as Cultural Studies
Tuesday, December 11: Final Examination: 3:00-5:00pm
