T
HE HISTORY OF ART
COURSE OUTLINE
I. Week 1
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Prehistoric Art
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Paleolithic –Lascaux Cave Painting, Woman of Willendorf,
Neolithic – Stonehenge
Art of the Early Civilizations
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Egyptian Art – Imhotep, Step Pyramid, Great Pyramids, Bust of Nefertiti
II. Week 2
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Art of Africa, Oceana & Native America
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Africa – Masks, sculpture
Oceana & Australia – Monumental sculpture, aboriginal art
Native North America – Burial mounds, pottery, textiles, architecture
Classical Art
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Greek – Parthenon, Myron, Phidias, Polykleitos, Praxiteles
Roman – Augustus of Primaporta, Colosseum, Trajan's Column, Pantheon
III. Week 3
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Islamic & Byzantine Art
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Arab World – Islamic Architecture, Mosque of Córdoba, the Alhambra
Early Christian – Byzantine Mosaics, Hagia Sophia, Andrei Rublev
Gothic & Medieval Art
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Gothic – St. Sernin, Durham Cathedral, Notre Dame, Chartres
Romanesque – Cimabue, Duccio
Proto-Renaissance – Giotto
IV. Week 4 & 5
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Italian Renaissance Art
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Renaissance – Brunelleschi, Ghiberti Doors
High Renaissance
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Donatello, Botticelli, Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael
V. Week 6
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Venetian & Northern Renaissance Art
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Art of Venice – Bellini, Giorgione, Titian
Flemish Painting – Dürer, Bruegel, Bosch, Jan van Eyck, Rogier van der Weyden
VI. Week 7
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Baroque & Neo Classical Art
Mannerism – Tintoretto, El Greco, Pontormo, Bronzino, Cellini
Baroque Painting – Reubens, Rembrandt, Caravaggio, Palace of Versailles
Neo-Classicism – David, Ingres, Greuze, Canova
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Art that recaptures Greco-Roman grace and grandeur
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VII. Week 8
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Romanticism – Caspar Friedrich, Gericault, Delacroix, Turner, Benjamin West
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VIII.
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The triumph of imagination and individuality
Week 9
Realism – Corot, Courbet, Daumier, Millet
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Celebrating working class and peasants; en plein air rustic painting
IX. Week 10
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Impressionism – Monet, Manet, Renoir, Pissarro, Cassatt, Morisot, Degas
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Capturing fleeting effects of natural light
X. Week 11
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Post-Impressionism – Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cézanne, Seurat
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A soft revolt against Impressionism
XI. Week 12
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Fauvism & Expressionism – Matisse, Kirchner, Kandinsky, Marc
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Harsh colors and flat surfaces (Fauvism); emotion distorting form
XII. Week 13
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13Cubism – Picasso, Braque, Leger, Boccioni, Severini, Malevich
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Pre– and Post–World War 1 art experiments: new forms to express modern life
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Week 14
Dada & Surrealism – Duchamp, Dalí, Ernst, Magritte,de Chirico, Kahlo
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Week 15
Abstract Expressionism – Gorky, Pollock, de Kooning, Rothko
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Ridiculous art; painting dreamsand exploring the unconscious
Post–World War II: pure abstraction and expression without form
XV. Week 16
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Pop – Warhol, Lichtenstein
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Popular art absorbs consumerism
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Week 17
Postmodernism – Gerhard Richter, Cindy Sherman, Anselm Kiefer, Frank Gehry, Zaha Hadid
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Week 18
Contemporary Art – Koons, Hirst, Fairey, Banksy
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without a center and reworking and mixing past styles