AP Art History Course Curriculum and Syllabus Mr. Nisbet
Sources for readings:
Adams, Laurie Schneider, A History of Western Art, 1997.
Art of Our Century. The Chronicle of Western Art 1900 to the Present, 1989. (AC)
Honour, Hugh and John Fleming. The Visual Arts: A History, 4th ed., 1995. (H&F)
Janson, H.W. History of Art , 5th ed., 1995. (J)
Krull, Kathleen. Lives of the Artists , 1995.
Rosenblum, Robert, and H.W. Janson, 19th Century Art, 1984. (19C)
Stokstad, Marilyn. Art History . 1995.
Strickland, Carol. The Annotated Mona Lisa , 1992.
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**Text book: Tansey, Richard G. and Fred S. Kleiner. Gardner's Art Through the Ages , 12th ed., 2004. (G)
Wilkins, David G., Bernard Schultz, and Katheryn M. Linduff, Art Past, Art Present , 1997. (APAP)
+ others as noted on syllabus
If a student is absent and misses a reading quiz without notifying me, they will
NOT be able to make it up. However, if I know about the absence in advance, the student has the opportunity to make up the reading quiz during their lunch sometime that SAME week. (*Except Friday, in which they will have until the following Tuesday - the sooner the better)
Issues to explore in class discussions and written assignments for weeks one through seven:
 Who are the patrons of religious art and architecture, and what impact do they have on its content and form?
 How do artists communicate religious beliefs and concepts? How do they differentiate between
 the natural and the supernatural?
Is there universality in the ways human beings have expressed their spiritual beliefs through art?
Are there any features that all religious art shares? Are there universal images permeating
 human religions like archetypes in mythology?
How can we recognize the art and architecture of a particular religion?
 Why are art and religion intimately connected throughout human history? How does art serve the needs of religion?
 What does the comparison of non-Western and Western art reveal about artistic patronage, practice, purpose, meaning, and style?
 What sorts of things emerge as universals and which are more culturally specific?
 Do artistic styles seem to follow the same kind of development in Asia as in Europe?
 Are the historical forces that shape Asian artistic evolution markedly different from those affecting European art?
 Which artistic innovations do the Western and non-Western worlds seem to have both covered independently and which did each have to learn from the other?
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Week 1 August 27-31: Art of Japan
 AUGUST 27: Class introduction, syllabus, expectations, rules, Introduction to Art History
Paradigm.
 AUGUST 28: Reading QUIZ over expectations and rules

 AUGUST 29: Reading QUIZ over Gardner’s pp. 222 – 231 (Start at Buddhist Japan); pp. 779-786 (Stop at “Edo Period”)
 AUGUST 30: Reading QUIZ over Gardner’s pp. 786–795: Edo Japan, Final Shogun
 AUGUST 31: Video QUIZ over “The Great Wave (Japanese Art Documentary 1/5) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWesQcVUoKw&feature=related
Week 2 September 3-7: Ancient Near Eastern Art and
Egyptian Art
 SEPTEMBER 3: Labor Day! Make sure you read!!!
 SEPTEMBER 4: Reading QUIZ over Gardner’s pp. 31-52:
Sumerian, Akkadian, Neo-
Sumerian, Babylonian, Assyrian,
Neo-Babylonian, Persian, and
Sasanian art
 SEPTEMBER 5: Reading QUIZ over Gardner’s pp. 55-68:
Predynastic and Early Dynastic Periods, Old Kingdom
(Stop at Middle Kingdom)
 SEPTEMBER 6: Reading QUIZ over Gardner’s pp. 68-76
(Middle Kingdom to Sculpture and Painting)
 SEPTEMBER 7: Pep Rally Schedule (Beach Blast) Reading
QUIZ over Gardner’s pp. 76-82 (Through Late Kingdom)
Week 3: September 10-14: Aegean and Early Greek Art
– Archaic Period
 SEPTEMBER 10:
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 SEPTEMBER 11: Reading QUIZ over Gardner’s pp. 85-
96 (Stop at Mycenaean Art)
 SEPTEMBER 12: Cycladic and Minoan Slide Quiz, only
Titles!
 SEPTEMBER 13: Reading QUIZ over Gardner’s pp. 96-102; ALSO Gardner’s p. 107
“Gods and Goddesses of Mount Olympus.”
 SEPTEMBER 14: Reading QUIZ over Gardner’s pp. 105-115 (Stop at Architecture)
Geometric, Orientalizing, and Archaic Early Greece
Week 4: September 17-21: Classical Greek Art through Hellenistic

 SEPTEMBER 17: Reading QUIZ over: Gardner’s pp. 115-124 (Archaic Architecture and Vase Painting) Stop at Aegina and the Transition to the Classical
 SEPTEMBER 18: Reading QUIZ over: Gardner’s pp.124-132 (Stop at Athenian
Acropolis) and Must read PAGE 133!! (Polykleitos’s Cannon of
Proportions – very IMPORTANT)
 SEPTEMBER 19: Reading QUIZ over: Gardner’s pp.
132-142
(ALL ACROPOLIS); Gardner’s pp. 145-149 The Late Classical
Period, stop at Alex the Great.
 SEPTEMBER 20: Reading QUIZ over: Gardner’s pp. 153-164 –
Hellenistic Period of Late Greece
 SEPTEMBER 21: AP Essay Practice. Three 10-minute practice essays.
Week 5: September 24-28: Etruscan and Roman Art
 SEPTEMBER 24: Reading QUIZ over: Gardner’s pp. 233-
244 Etruscan Art.
 SEPTEMBER 25: Reading QUIZ over: Gardner’s pp. 247-
265 (Stop at Early Empire) **Make sure you read the green box on page 250**
 SEPTEMBER 26: [Mr. Nisbet’s Birthday], Reading QUIZ over:
READER: “Roman Empire Essay from the Metropolitan
Museum” PLUS Gardner’s pp. 265-274, Stop at High
Empire
 SEPTEMBER 27: Reading QUIZ over: Gardner’s pp. 274-
289 (Stop at Late Empire)
 SEPTEMBER 28: Reading Quiz over: Gardner’s pp. 289-
298 – Late Empire of Rome
Week 6: October 1-5: Early Christian and Pagan Art
 OCTOBER 1:
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 OCTOBER 2: Reading QUIZ over: READER: Christian
Symbols and Iconography AND (+) Early Christian
Architecture
 OCTOBER 3: Reading QUIZ over: Gardner’s pp. 301-307,
ALSO 308-309 “The Life of Jesus in Art”
 OCTOBER 4: Reading QUIZ over: 310-322 – “Sculpture section, Rome section to end of chapter”
 OCTOBER 5: Pep Rally Schedule (Camo) Practice AP 30 minute writing for Daily Grade. Will score out of
AP 0-9 scale.
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Week 7: October 8-12: Byzantine Art and
Islamic Art
 OCTOBER 8: Holiday, Make sure you read Byzantine Art from READER!!
 OCTOBER 9: Reading QUIZ over:
READER: Byzantine Art
 OCTOBER 10: Reading QUIZ over:
Gardner’s pp. 358-367 (Stop at Later
Islamic Art)
 OCTOBER 11: Reading QUIZ over:
Gardner’s pp. 367-378 “Later Islamic Art
– Conclusion”
 OCTOBER 12: Pep Rally (Homecoming): Practice AP 30 Minute Essay for Daily
Grade. Will score out of AP 0-9 scale.
Week 8: October 15-19: Early Medieval Art
 OCTOBER 15: Reading QUIZ over: Gardner’s pp. 425-436 “Hiberno-Saxon Art –
Stop at Ottonian Art”
 OCTOBER 16: Reading QUIZ over: Gardner’s pp. 436-
444 “Ottonian Art to Conclusion”
 OCTOBER 17: (Half-day due to PSAT, school begins at
11:45AM) Practice 10-minute essay question for
Daily Grade.
 OCTOBER 18: Reading QUIZ over: READER: “Animals in Medieval Art”
 OCTOBER 19: Reading QUIZ over: READER:
“Carolingian Art”
Week 9: October 22-26: Romanesque Art
 OCTOBER 22:
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 OCTOBER 23: Reading QUIZ over: READER: “The
Middle Ages, The Reign of Religion”
 OCTOBER 24: Reading QUIZ over: Gardner’s pp. 447-458 (Stop at Tuscany)
 OCTOBER 25: Reading QUIZ over: Gardner’s pp. 458-
470 (Stop at Painting)
 OCTOBER 26: (Goblin Day) Reading QUIZ over:
Gardner’s pp. 470-476 “Romanesque Painting”
Week 10: October 29 – November 2: Gothic Art
 OCTOBER 29: VOCABULARY QUIZ over: Gardner’s p.
482 “The Gothic Rib Vault” & p. 488 “The Gothic
Cathedral”
 OCTOBER 30: Reading QUIZ over: Gardner’s pp. 479-
487 (Stop after Flying Buttresses)

 OCTOBER 31: Reading QUIZ over: Gardner’s pp. 489-501 (Stop before “Boook
Illumination and Luxury Arts”)
 NOVEMBER 1: Reading QUIZ over: Gardner’s pp.501-506 (Stop at “Gothic Outside
France”
 NOVEMBER 2: Reading QUIZ over: Gardner’s pp. 506-518: “Gothic Outside France to Conclusion”
Week 11: November 5-9 Late Gothic – Trecento Proto Renaissance
 NOVEMBER 5:
 NOVEMBER 6: Reading QUIZ over: Gardner’s pp. 521-531 (Stop at “The Republic of Siena”
 NOVEMBER 7: Reading QUIZ over: Gardner’s pp. 531-538 (Stop at “The Republic of Florence”
 NOVEMBER 8: Reading Quiz over: Gardner’s pp. 538-542: Florence to Conclusion.
 NOVEMBER 9: Pep Rally (Mix n Match) Practice AP 30 minute writing for a Daily
Grade. Will score out of AP 0-9 scale.
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Issues to explore in class discussion and written assignments in weeks twelve - eighteen:
 What impact did major historical events such as the Crusades, the Black Death, the spread of
Islam, and the expansion of navigation have on the European mindset and resulting art?
 Why did the Renaissance happen? Why did it begin in Italy? Why was the epicenter in
Florence? Why do we hear so much about the Medicis?
 What is HUMANISM and what caused its emergence? How can we see evidence of humanism in European art and architecture produced during the 14 th and 15 th centuries? What impact does it have on formal elements? How is it reflected in subject matter?
What effect does the emergence of art academies have on the history of art?
Why do we see so few female artists in this period?
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What impact does the emergence of strong, centralized monarchies have on art and architectural production?
How do artists depict secular power and authority? How do these images differ from those
 portraying religious power?
What impact did Popes Innocent VIII, Alexander VI, Julius II, and Leo X have on contemporary art and architecture?
Why did Rome emerge as the center of European art in the 16 th century?
In what ways is it accurate to call Michelangelo the first of the Mannerists?
What impact did the beginning of the Protestant Reformation and the sack of Rome in 1527 have on the development of Mannerism?
 Why did distinctly disproportionate body parts appeal to the Mannerists?
 In what ways were the Mannerists attempting to distinguish themselves from the artists active from 1500 to 1520?
 Why are the artists of Florence and Rome so much better known by the general public than those of Venice? Is the work of Leonardo, Michelangelo, and Raphael inherently superior to that of
Giorgione and Titian?
 What exactly distinguishes the Venetian style from Florentine and Roman art of the same period?

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Week 12: November 12-16: Northern Renaissance
 NOVEMBER 12: Reading QUIZ over: READER: “With Sight and
Feeling: 15 th Century Art in Northern Europe”
 NOVEMBER 13: Reading QUIZ over: Gardner’s pp. 545-559
(Stop at “Private Devotional Imagery”
 NOVEMBER 14: Reading QUIZ over: Gardner’s pp. 559-564:
“Private Devotional Imagery” stopping at “Enigmatic Flemish
Painter”
 NOVEMBER 15: Reading QUIZ over: Gardner’s pp. 564-570:
Bosch to Conclusion” + READER: “The World of Bosch”
 NOVEMBER 16: Reading QUIZ over:
Week 13: November 19-23:
Week 14: November 26-30: Early Italian Renaissance
 NOVEMBER 26: Reading QUIZ over: Gardner’s pp. 573-582
 NOVEMBER 27: Reading QUIZ over: Gardner’s pp. 583-591
(Stop at “The Medici as Patrons”)
 NOVEMBER 28: Gardner’s pp. 591-603 (Stop at “Princely
Courts”)
 NOVEMBER 29: Gardner’s pp. 603-610
 NOVEMBER 30: Reading QUIZ over: READER: “Early
Fifteenth Century Painting”
Week 15: December 3-7: High Renaissance
 DECEMBER 3: Reading QUIZ over: READER: “Virtue and
Beauty-Ideal Image of a Woman”
 DECEMBER 4: Reading QUIZ over: Gardner’s pp. 613-618 and Gardner’s p. 621 “The Merits of Painting versus
Sculpture”
 DECEMBER 5: Reading QUIZ over: Gardner’s pp. 619-627 “Julius II: A Warrior-
Pope’s Quest for Authority”
 DECEMBER 6: Reading QUIZ over: Gardner’s pp. 629-638 “A Congregation of Great
Thinkers” stop at “Early 16 th Century Venetian Art”
 DECEMBER 7: Reading QUIZ over: Gardner’s p. 628 “Restoring the Glory of
Renaissance Art”
Week 16: December 10-14: Mannerism and Venetian Art
 DECEMBER 10:
 DECEMBER 11: Reading QUIZ over: Gardner’s pp. 638-648 “Early 16 th Century
Venetian Art” stop at “Mannerism”
 DECEMBER 12: Reading QUIZ over: Gardner’s pp. 648-654 “Mannerism” stop at
“Later 16 th -Century Architecture”

 DECEMBER 13: Reading QUIZ over: Gardner’s pp. 654-660 “Later 16 th ” to
Conclusion.
 DECEMBER 14: Field Trip to Ft. Worth Arts District – Modern, Kimbell, Amon Carter.
Leave at 8:45AM in front of school. We will be back for 6 th Period lunch at 1:10PM.
All you will need are two pencils and a hard surface for you to write on. You will be completing the AP Art History Field Trip Exercise, which will take you roughly over
2 hours. This is worth a TEST GRADE.
Week 17: December 17-21: 16 th Century Northern European Art
 DECEMBER 17: Reading QUIZ over: READER: “Sixteenth Century Northern Art: A
Conflict of Styles”
 DECEMBER 18: Reading QUIZ over: Gardner’s pp. 663-675 Stop at “France”
 DECEMBER 19: Reading QUIZ over: Gardner’s pp. 675-686 “France” to Conclusion
 DECEMBER 20: (Half day, begin at 12:45 PM)
 DECEMBER 21: (Half day, begin at 12:45 PM) + Pep Rally?
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Issues to explore in class discussion and written assignments during weeks 18 - 20:
 What is the impact of the Protestant Reformation and the Catholic Counter Reformation on
European art and architecture? How do they influence artistic patronage? How do they shape attitudes of the general public toward art? What impact do they have on both the content and form of the works artists produce?
 What impact does the Scientific Revolution have on the art of Europe in the seventeenth and
 early eighteenth centuries?
Gardner's discusses 17 th
century art in the context of fascination with "matter in motion through time, space, and light." How do we see evidence of that fascination in the art and architecture of the Baroque period?
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How is art affected by the growing popularity of theater and opera?
How do artists incorporate theatricality into painting and sculpture?
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How can we account for the artistic explosion in the Dutch
Netherlands during the 17
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century?
Why does the center of artistic influence begin to shift from Rome toward Western Europe and eventually Paris?
 What is the effect on artistic production of the rise of absolute monarchs, such as Louis XIV?
 How do the works of Baroque artists reflect influences from the
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Italian Renaissance or the Northern Renaissance?
Who are the rebels, the artistic groundbreakers, and what was their motivation?
Week 18: January 7-11: Baroque
 JANUARY 7: Holiday, Teacher Work Day
 JANUARY 8: Reading QUIZ over: Gardner’s pp. 699-704 (“Naturalistic Religious
Art”)
 JANUARY 9: Reading QUIZ over: READER: “On the Trail of Caravaggio”
 JANUARY 10: Reading QUIZ over: pp. 705-713 (Naturalistic to Flanders)

 JANUARY 11: Reading QUIZ over: Gardner’s pp. 713-718 (Flanders and stop at
“Dutch Republic”)
Week 19: January 14-18: Baroque
 JANUARY 14: Reading QUIZ over: Gardner’s pp. 718-725
(Dutch Republic, stop at “Reclaiming Land from the Sea”)
 JANUARY15: Reading QUIZ over: Gardner’s pp. 725-732
(Land from Sea stopping at “France”)
 JANUARY 16: Reading QUIZ over: Gardner’s pp. 732-741
(France to England)
 JANUARY 17: NO READING QUIZ!!! OMG!!!! Review for
 JANUARY 18: tomorrow’s TEST
Week 20: January 21-25: 16 th -17 th Century Architecture
 JANUARY 21: Holiday MLK Day
 JANUARY 22: Reading QUIZ over: READER: “Late 16 th Cent. Italian Architecture”
 JANUARY 23: Reading QUIZ over: READER: Façade of Il Gesú, Rome, Italy
 JANUARY 24: Reading QUIZ over: Gardner’s pp. 691-699 (Stop at Naturalistic)
 JANUARY 25: Reading QUIZ over: Gardner’s pp. 738-746 (“New Official Taste” to
Conclusion”
Issues to explore in class discussion and written assignments during weeks 21 - 23:
 How does Rococo art reflect the lives of the aristocratic class?
 What is the impact of Rococo images on the rising bourgeoisie?
 What impact does Enlightenment thought have on artistic content and form?
 What is the impact of the French Academy and the Salon Exhibitions?
 To what extent do works by 18 th
century artists reflect the decline of the ruling aristocracies and the rise of the middle class?
 How does the purpose of art change as the eighteenth century progresses?
 Just what does Romanticism mean?
 In what ways are Romantic artists reacting against the Enlightenment's intellectual climate?
 How does Romantic art reflect a break from deep-seated artistic rules inherited from the
Renaissance? Why does this occur?
 To what extent do Romantic visual artists reflect developments in contemporary literature and music?
 Stylistically and thematically, how do artists express the same kinds of notions found in
Romantic music and literature?
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What is the impact of the Industrial Revolution on artistic production?
 By what process does photography come to be considered art ? Do early photographers seem to define their work in that way? What functions does photography serve from the beginning that both link it with and distinguish it from the other visual arts?
 What impact does photography have on painting and vice versa? How do painters emulate photographers and how do photographers emulate painters?
 Technically speaking, what is the range of artistic expression inherent to photography? How do photographers manipulate their medium for their desired effects?
 What exactly is Realism ? Does it mean the same things for writers and for visual artists? What subjects do artists choose to depict realistically? Why?

 Is optical realism what is most real? If not, what techniques can artists use to portray their understanding of what is real?
 In what ways do the socioeconomic changes accompanying the Industrial Revolution affect the birth of Realism? To what extent was Realist art used as propaganda for social change?
 To what extent is Realism a reaction against Romanticism?
 How do the Pre-Raphaelites represent a reaction against Realism and/or Impressionism?
 How do the Impressionists represent perhaps the most dramatic break from the Renaissance tradition up to their time?
 How does their work reflect radical change stylistically, in their concepts of art's purpose, and in their ideas of themselves as artists?
 Who were their greatest influences and why?
 What impact does the opening of European-Japanese trade relations have on the art world? Why are European artists so taken with Japanese woodblock prints? How do they emulate those prints
 in their own paintings and prints?
Why have the Impressionists enjoyed such popularity among the general population in the past several decades, and why have the Pre-Raphaelites experienced a notable rise in popularity?
 Why were Post-Impressionist artists initially attracted to Impressionism, and why did each become dissatisfied with it?
 What was each trying to accomplish artistically and what in their work made them influential for
 other artists?
How do the Post-Impressionists reflect the changing role of the artist in Western society?
Week 21: January 28 – February 1: Rococo and
Neoclassical
 JANUARY 28: Reading QUIZ over: Gardner’s pp. 797-804
Stop at Enlightenment
 JANUARY 29: Reading QUIZ over: Gardner’s pp. 804-813
From Enlightenment stop after Italy
 JANUARY 30: Reading QUIZ over: Gardner’s pp. 814-820
Revival of Classical to “Neoclassical in England”
 JANUARY 31: Reading QUIZ over: Gardner’s pp. 820-827
Neo in England to “Rise of Romanticism”
 FEBRUARY 1: Reading QUIZ over: Gardner’s pp. 843-845
Revival in Architecture
Week 22: February 4-8: Romanticism, Early American Art, and
Realism
 FEBRUARY 8: Reading QUIZ over: Gardner’s pp. 863-869 Stop at
 FEBRUARY 4: Reading QUIZ over: Gardner’s pp. 827-836 Rise to
Dramatic in Sculpture
 FEBRUARY 5: Reading QUIZ over: Gardner’s pp. 836-843 stop at
Architecture
 FEBRUARY 6: Reading QUIZ over: Gardner’s pp. 853-863 Stop at
“Realism outside France”
 FEBRUARY 7: Reading QUIZ over: READER: Romanticism to
Realism
“Impressionism”

Week 23: February 11-15: Impressionism and Post Impressionism
 FEBRUARY 11:
 FEBRUARY 12: Reading QUIZ over: Gardner’s pp.
869-874 “Impressionism” through “Relaxed
Leisure by the Seaside” ***Make sure you read
“Japonisme” on page 874.
 FEBRUARY 13: Reading QUIZ over: Gardner’s pp.
875-879
 FEBRUARY 14: Reading QUIZ over: Gardner’s pp. 879-886
 FEBRUARY 15: Practice AP Essay questions
Issues to explore in class discussion and written assignments in weeks 24 - 29:
 How do new scientific discoveries such as x-ray technology influence the work of 20 th
century
 artists?
Why does African sculpture have a radicalizing effect on many early 20 th
century European artists? How do European artists incorporate formal elements of African art?
 How do we account for the proliferation of styles in the 20 th century?
 To what extent do these artists reflect society? To what extent do they reflect a growing gulf between society and its artists?
 How important is it, if at all, that the work of these artists is more inaccessible to today's general viewing public than work done in earlier times?
 What is the significance of the emergence of non-figurative art?
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Does the definition of art change during the 20 th
century?
 In what ways do these artists explore issues raised by contemporary events and by thinkers such as Nietzsche, Bergson, Freud, and Jung?
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 What formal devices do 20
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century artists develop in order to achieve their goals?
How are major world events, particularly the World Wars, reflected in the art of the century?
How can we learn to appreciate works of art that don't appeal to us aesthetically?
When artists intend to shock and anger us, what techniques do they use?
What is the best way to TEACH non-objective art to people who know nothing about it?
What impact have the Civil Rights and feminist movements had on art? How effective have artistic images done by members of these movements, as well as members of other marginalized groups, been in bringing about social change?
 What exactly is Post Modernism? What has been the impact of Post Modern theory on artistic patronage and production? Where do we go from here? What artistic frontiers remain?
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Week 24: February 18-22: Begin 20 th Century: Expressionism, Abstraction,
Fantasy, and Realism before World War I
 FEBRUARY 18: President’s Day
 FEBRUARY 19: Teacher Work Day/ Student Holiday

 FEBRUARY 20: Reading QUIZ over: Gardner’s pp. 886-893 “Rise of Avante-Garde stop at “The Arts and Crafts Movement”
 FEBRUARY 21: Reading QUIZ over: READER: “In Turn-of-the-Century Paris..”
 FEBRUARY 22: Reading QUIZ over: Gardner’s pp. 961-971 (Stop at Cubism)
Week 25: February 25 – March 1: Continue 20 th Century:
Expressionism, Abstraction, Fantasy, and Realism before World
War I; Expressionism, Abstraction, and Fantasy between Wars
 FEBRUARY 25: Reading QUIZ over: Gardner’s pp. 971-980
(Stop at Challenging)
 FEBRUARY 26: Reading QUIZ over: Gardner’s pp. 980-992:
(Stop at European Art in the Wake of WWI)
 FEBRUARY 27: Reading QUIZ over: Gardner’s pp. 992-996
 FEBRUARY 28: Reading QUIZ over: Gardner’s pp. 996-1007
(Stop at Bauhaus)
 MARCH 1: Reading QUIZ over: Gardner’s pp. 1020-1028 (“Art as a Political Statement”)
Week 26: March 4-8: Continue 20 th Century: Expressionism after WWII in Europe,
Abstract Expressionism
 MARCH 4:
 MARCH 5: Reading QUIZ over: Gardner’s pp. 1031-1040, ALSO READER: Abstract
Expressionism (3p)
 MARCH 6: Reading QUIZ over: Gardner’s pp. 1040-1046 (Stop at “Performance
Art”)
 MARCH 7: Reading QUIZ over: Gardner’s pp. 1046-1050 (Stop at “Art for the
Public)
 MARCH 8: 10-minute AP essay Practice
Week 27: March 11-15:
Week 28: March 18-22: Complete 20 th Century: Realism after WWII (Pop Art),
Photorealism, Earth & Site Art, Installations
 MARCH 18: Reading QUIZ over: Gardner’s pp. 1050-1054 (Stop @ Superrealism)
 MARCH 19: Reading QUIZ over: READER: “Really Big Art of Claus Oldenburg”
 MARCH 20:Reading QUIZ over: READER: “Ugly People”
 MARCH 21: Reading QUIZ over: Gardner’s pp. 1054-1059 (Superrealism stop at
Architecture)
 MARCH 22: 30 Minute AP Practice Essay
Week 29: March 25-29: Postmodernism
 MARCH 25: Reading QUIZ over: Gardner’s pp. 1068-1071 + “Contesting Culture”
 MARCH 26: Reading QUIZ over: Gardner’s pp. 1071-1076 (Political Weapon stop at Racism)

 MARCH 27: Reading QUIZ over: Gardner’s pp. 1076-1082 (Racism to New
Technologies)
 MARCH 28: Reading QUIZ over: Gardner’s pp. 1082-1090
 MARCH 29: Possible bad weather day, possible Holiday/Teacher work day
Week 30: April 1-5: Begin 19 th -21 st Architecture
 APRIL 1: Reading QUIZ over: Gardner’s pp. 818-824 (“Roman Grandeur in France” to “Free at Last”) & ALSO pp. 843-845 (“Revivalist Styles in Architecture”)
 APRIL 2: Reading QUIZ over: Gardner’s pp. 896 “Sculpting a Building” & ALSO pp.
897-900 (Stop at Floral stained-glass lamps”)
 APRIL 3: Reading QUIZ over: Gardner’s pp. 1007-1011 (The Bauhaus)
 APRIL 4: Reading QUIZ over: Gardner’s pp.
1012-1017 (International Style, Art
Deco, Frank Lloyd Wright)
 APRIL 5: 30-minute AP Essay
Week 31: April 8-12: Finish Modern, Post-Modern Architecture
 APRIL 8: Reading QUIZ over: Gardner’s pp. 1059-1063 (Moderism Architecture)
 APRIL 9: Reading QUIZ over: Gardner’s pp. 1063-1067 (Postmodernism +
Deconstructivist Architecture) **DO NOT FORGET TO SEE IMAGE OF
GUGGENHEIM ON PAGE 1068!!!
 APRIL 10: NO READING
 APRIL 11: NO READING
 APRIL 12: Field Trip to Dallas Museum District (Cindy Sherman @ DMA,
Collection @ Nasher Sculpture Center) Leave at 8:45AM in front of school. We will be back for 6 th Period lunch at 1:10PM. All you will need are two pencils and a hard surface for you to write on. You will be completing the AP Art History Field Trip
Exercise, which will take you roughly over 2 hours. This is worth a TEST GRADE.
Week 32: April 15-19: AP Review
 APRIL 15:
 APRIL 16: Review QUIZ #1: Japanese, Ancient Near East, Egyptian, “Greatest Hits”
 APRIL 17: Review 30 Minute Western + Non-Western Essay Questions, How to make a 9
 APRIL 18: Practice 30 Minute Essay, released AP question. Daily Grade.
 APRIL 19: Review QUIZ #2: Proto-Greek and Greek “Greatest Hits”
Week 33: April 22-26: Practice Tests, Review, review, review, review
 APRIL 22:
 APRIL 23: Review QUIZ #3: Etruscan, Roman, and Early Christian; "Greatest Hits" of
Ancients through Gothic .
 APRIL 24: Review QUIZ #4: Byzantine through Carolingian; "Greatest Hits" of
Ancients through Gothic .
 APRIL 25: Review QUIZ #5: Ottonian through Gothic; “Greatest Hits” of Trecento through Baroque

 APRIL 26: Review QUIZ #6: Late Gothic through Northern Renaissance; “Greatest
Hits” of Trecento through Baroque
Week 34: April 29 – May 3: Practice Tests, Review, review, review, review.
 APRIL 29: Review QUIZ #7: High Renaissance through Proto-Baroque; “Greatest
Hits” of Rococo through 20 th Century
 APRIL 30: Review QUIZ #8: Baroque through Romanticism; “Greatest Hits” of
Romanticism through 20 th Century
 MAY 1: Review QUIZ #9: Realism through End of Sheet; In class preparation for short essays
 MAY 2: Prepare for 30 minute essay
 MAY 3: Nonwestern Review
Week 35: May 6-10: Review **May 7 th , AP Test @ Afternoon - Noon**
 MAY 6: QUESTIONS, COMMENTS, CONCERNS?
 MAY 7: AP ART HISTORY TEST @ NOON (12:00PM) IN GYM 2 or LIBRARY
 MAY 8: CONGRATULATIONS, BRING FOOD, Good luck on other AP tests!
 MAY 9: PHEW
 MAY 10: AHHHH
Week 36: May 13-17: Prehistoric Cave Paintings
 MAY 13: Lascaux
 MAY 14: Pech Merle
 MAY 15: Altamira
 MAY 16: Chauvet
 MAY 17: Stonehenge
Week 37: May 20-24: Art Projects: Stained-glass Windows, Cartoons, Charades
 MAY 20: Begin Geometric Marker Stain-glass
 MAY 21: Finish Geometric Marker Stain-glass
 MAY 22: Create an original Art History Cartoon, full color
 MAY 23: Art History Charades
 MAY 24: Friendship Bracelets
Week 38: May 27-31: Art Projects: Artist Study Projects
 MAY 27: Introduce and begin Artist Projects
 MAY 28: Artist’s Projects
 MAY 29: Artist’s Projects
 MAY 30: Artist’s Projects Presentations
 MAY 31: Artist’s Projects Presentations
Week 30: June 3-6: Art Projects: Yearbooks
 JUNE 3: Holiday
 JUNE 4: (Early dismissal at 12:45PM)
 JUNE 5/6*: (Early dismissal at 12:45PM)
*Indicates a bad weather make-up day