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
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
1.
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
Week 13—Gothic Art
Text, Chapter 11
Week 14—Precursors of the Renaissance
Text, Chapter 12
CHAPTER 9/10 EXAM
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
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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