Part I Fundamentals
• 1 – The Humanities: An Introduction
• 2 – What is a Work of Art?
• 3 – Being a Critic of the Arts
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1 – The Humanities: An
Introduction
• The Humanities: A Study of Values
• Taste
• Responses To Art
– Structure and Artistic Form
– Perception
• Abstract Ideas and Concrete Images
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2 – What Is A Work Of Art?
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Identifying Art Conceptually
Identifying Art Perceptually
Artistic Form
Participation
Participation And Artistic Form
Content
Subject Matter
Subject Matter and Artistic Form
Participation, Artistic Form, And Content
– Artistic Form: Examples
– Subject Matter and Content
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3 – Being A Critic Of The Arts
• You Are Already an Art Critic
• Participation and The Critic
• Kinds of Criticism
– Descriptive Criticism
– Detail, Regional, and Structural Relationships
– Interpretive Criticism
– Evaluative Criticism
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Part II The Arts
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4 – Painting
5 – Sculpture
6 – Architecture
7 – Drama
8 – Literature
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9 – Music
10 – Dance
11 – Film
12 – Television and
Video Art
• 13 – Photography
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4 – Painting
• Your Visual Powers
• The Media of Painting
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Tempera
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Oil
Water Color
Acrylic
Other Media
Pigments and Binders
• Elements of Painting
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Line
Color
Texture
Composition
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4 – Painting (cont’d)
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The Clarity of Painting
The “All-at-Onceness” of Painting
Abstract Painting
Intensity and Restfulness
Representational Painting
Comparison of Five Impressionist
Paintings
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4 – Painting (cont’d)
• Determining the
Subject Matter of a
Painting
• Interpretation of the
Self
– Frida Kahlo
– Romaine Brooks
– Rembrandt van Rijn
• Some Painting Styles
of the Twentieth
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5 – Sculpture
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Sculpture and Touch
Sculpture And Density
Sensory Interconnections
Sculpture And Painting Compared
Sunken-Relief Sculpture
Low-Relief Sculpture
High-Relief Sculpture
Sculpture In The Round
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5 – Sculpture (cont’d)
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Sensory Space
Sculpture and The Human Body
Sculpture In The Round And The Human Body
Techniques of Sculpture
Contemporary Sculpture
Truth To Materials
Space Sculpture
Protest Against Technology
Accommodation with Technology
Machine Sculpture
Earth Sculpture
Sculpture In Public Places
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6 – Architecture
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Centered Space
Space and Architecture
Chartres
Living Space
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6 – Architecture
• Four Necessities of Architecture
– Technical Requirements of Architecture
– Functional Requirements Of Architecture
– Spatial Requirements of Architecture
– Revelatory Requirements of Architecture
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6 – Architecture (cont’d)
• Earth-Rooted Architecture
– Site
– Gravity
– Raw Materials
– Centrality
• Sky-Oriented Architecture
– Axis Mundi
– Defiance of Gravity
– Integration of Light
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6 – Architecture (cont’d)
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Earth-Resting Architecture
Earth Dominating Architecture
Combinations of Types
Two Contemporary Architects: Zaha Hadid
and Santiago Calatrava
• Urban Planning
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7 – Literature
• Spoken Language and Literature
• Literary Structures
– The Narrative and The Narrator
– The Episodic Narrative
– The Organic Narrative
– The Quest Narrative
– The Lyric
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7 – Literature
• Literary Details
– Image
– Metaphor
– Symbol
– Irony
– Diction
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8 – Drama
• Aristotle and The Elements of Drama
– Dialogue and Soliloquy
• Imitation and Realism
• An Alternative Theory of Tragedy
• Archetypal Patterns
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8 – Drama
• Genres Of Drama
– The Tragic Stage
– Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet
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Comedy: Old and New
Tragicomedy: The Mixed Genre
A Play for Study: The Bear
Musical Comedy
Modern Drama
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9 – Music
• Hearing and Listening
• The Elements of Music
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Consonance
Dissonance
Rhythm
Tempo
Melodic Material: Melody, Theme, and Motive
Counterpoint
Harmony
Dynamics
Contrast
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9 – Music (cont’d)
• The Subject Matter of Music
– Feelings
• Two Theories: Formalism and
Expressionism
• Sound
• Tonal Center
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9 – Music (cont’d)
• Musical Structures
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Theme and Variations
Rondo
Fugue
Sonata Form
Fantasia
The Symphony
• Beethoven’s Symphony in E Major, No. 3, Eroica
• Blues and Popular Music
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10 – Dance
• Subject Matter of Dance
• Form
• Dance and Ritual
– Indian Dance
– The Zuni Rain Dance
– Social Dance
– The Court Dance
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10 – Dance
• Ballet
– Swan Lake
• Modern Dance
– Alvin Ailey’s Revelations
– Martha Graham
– Pilobolus and Momix Dance Companies
– Mark Morris Dance Group
– Twyla Tharp
• Popular Dance
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11 – Film
• The Subject Matter Of
Film
• Directing and Editing
• The Participative
Experience and Film
• The Film Image
• Camera Point of View
• Audience Response
To Film
• Sound
• Image and Action
• Film Structure
• Filmic Meanings
• The Context of Film
History
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11 – Film (cont’d)
• Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather
– The Narrative Structure of The Godfather,
Parts I and II
– Coppola’s Images
– Coppola’s Use of Sound
– The Power of The Godfather
• A Classic Film: Casablanca
• Experimentation
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12 – Television and Video Art
• The Evolution of Television
• The Subject Matter of Television and Video
Art
• Commercial Television
– The Television Series
– The Structure of the Self-Contained Episode
– The Television Serial
• Video Art
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13 – Photography
• Photography and Painting
• Photography and Painting: The
Pictorialists
• Straight Photography
– Stieglitz: Pioneer of Straight Photography
– The F/64 Group
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13 – Photography (cont’d)
• The Documentarists
• The Modern Eye
• Color Photography
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Part III Interrelationships
• 14 – The Arts
• 15 – Is it Art or Something Like It?
• 16 – The Other Humanities
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14 – The Interrelationships of the
Arts
• Appropriation
• Synthesis
• Interpretation
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Film Interprets Literature: Howards End
Music Interprets Drama: The Marriage of Figaro
Poetry Interprets Painting: The Starry Night
Sculpture Interprets Poetry: Apollo and Daphne
Painting Interprets Dance And Music: The Dance and
Music
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15 – Is It Art or Something Like
It?
• Art and Artlike
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Folk Art
Popular Art
Propaganda
Kitsch
• Decoration
• Design
• Idea Art
– Dada
– Duchampism
– Conceptual Art
• Performance Art
• Shock Art
• Virtual Art
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16 – The Interrelationships of the
Humanities
• The Humanities and The Sciences
• The Arts and The Other Humanities
– Perceiving and Thinking
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Values
The Arts and History
The Arts and Philosophy
The Arts and Theology
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