Class Schedule

Week 1                                             

September 1st

Introduction

Web Sites

1. Paleolithic Art: http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/ent/A0837340.html

2. Chuvet Cave: http://www.culture.gouv.fr/culture/arcnat/chauvet/en/

3. Lascaux Cave: http://www.culture.fr/culture/arcnat/lascaux/en/

4. Female figures: http://witcombe.sbc.edu/willendorf/

Week 2.

September 6th; 8th

Central American Precolumbian Art

South American Precolumbian Art

Web Sites

1. Neolithic Period: http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/society/A0835205.html

2. Newgrange: http://www.stonepages.com/ireland/ireland.html

3. Stonehenge: http://witcombe.sbc.edu/earthmysteries/EMStonehenge.html

                     http://www.exn.ca/mysticplaces/stonehenge.cfm

4. Easter Island: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/easter/

                       http://www.netaxs.com/~trance/rapanui.html

5. Teotihuacan: http://archaeology.la.asu.edu/teo/

                         http://www.archaeology.org/online/features/mexico/

6. Machu Pichu: http://www.raingod.com/angus/Gallery/Photos/SouthAmerica/Peru/IncaTrail.html

                           http://www.shastahome.com/machu-picchu/guide.html

7. Chako Canyon National Monument:  http://www.jqjacobs.net/southwest/chaco.html

                                                               http://www.ratical.com/southwest/CCdescrip.html

8. Native American Photographs:  

          http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award98/ienhtml/curthome.html                          

9. Aztec Art, Architecture, Culture:

    http://library.thinkquest.org/10098/aztec.htm?tqskip1=1&tqtime=0831

10. Mayan Architecture:

      http://library.thinkquest.org/10098/mayan.htm?tqskip1=1&tqtime=0831

11. Chief Crazy Horse Monument: http://www.crazyhorse.org/

                                                         http://website.lineone.net/~bunwin/crazy_horse.htm

Week 3.

September 13th, 15th

Ancient Egyptian Art

Ancient to Classical Greek and Roman Art

Web Sites

1. Pyramids of Ancient Egypt: http://touregypt.net/featurestories/pyramids.htm

2. Great Pyramid of Cheops: http://www.touregypt.net/cheops.htm

3. Egyptian Antiquities: http://touregypt.net/egyptantiquities/

4. Women in Egypt:  http://www.arthistory.sbc.edu/imageswomen/

5. Colossus of Rhodes: http://ce.eng.usf.edu/pharos/wonders/colossus.html

6. Greek Architecture: http://library.thinkquest.org/10098/greek.htm

7. Parthenon: http://academic.reed.edu/humanities/110Tech/Parthenon.html

8. Roman Art and Architecture: http://harpy.uccs.edu/roman/html/roman.html

9. Pantheon: http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/Pantheon.html

10. Coliseum: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colosseum

 http://wings.buffalo.edu/AandL/Maecenas/rome/colosseum/section_contents.html                   

Week 4.

September 20th, 22nd

Asian Art

Web Sites

1. Chinese Time Line: http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/c/chinese.html

2. Historic Basis of Chinese Culture: http://www.mc.maricopa.edu/~reffland/anthropology/asb_china/han_synthesis.html

3. Silk Road: http://members.tripod.com/MaryannWatson/China/silkroad.htm

4. Buddhist Architecture: http://www.travelchinaguide.com/intro/architecture/styles/buddhist.htm

5. Great Wall of China: http://www.chinavista.com/travel/greatwall/greatwall.html

6. 1st Emperor Qin Shi Huangs Buried Army: http://www.travelchinaguide.com/attraction/shaanxi/xian/terra_cotta_army/

7. Qin Shi Huangs Imperial Tomb: http://www.taisei.co.jp/cg_e/ancient_world/xian/axian.html

8. Chinese Calligraphy: http://www.chinapage.org/calligraphy.html

9. Chinese Architecture: http://library.thinkquest.org/10098/china1.htm

10.Chinese Garden Design: http://ccbs.ntu.edu.tw/FULLTEXT/INTLVIEW/intlvi01.htm

11. Japanese Ikebana: http://www.ikebana.com.au/history.html

12. Hokusai’s Prints: http://www.mastergraph.com/pages/hokusai.html  

13. Japanese Gardens: http://www.explorejapan.com/jgardens.htm

14. Tibetan Art: http://www.tibetart.com/welcome.cfm

15. Indian Architecture, Taj Mahal: http://www.tibetart.com/welcome.cfm

Week 5

September 27th, 29th

A. Persian Art 

B. Kitsch

Web Sites

1. Persian Art: http://www.art-arena.com/hpart.html

2. Persian Carpets:

    http://tehran.stanford.edu/Iran_Lib/Images/Persian_Carpet/carpet_history.html

3. Persian Painting: http://www.art-arena.com/Min.html

4. Islamic Art & Architecture:  http://www.islamicart.com/main/architecture/

Web Sites

Roadside Icons: http://members.aol.com/JTankard/roadside/home.html

Kitsch:  http://www.sharecom.ca/greenberg/kitsch.html

Week 6

October 4, 6

Web Sites

A.Degenerate Art, 

      http://www.philamuseum.org/collections/provenance/degenerate.shtml

B. Censorship,

     http://dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Censorship/

     http://users.rcn.com/kyp/stanley.html

Hitlers art:   http://www.snyderstreasures.net/pages/hartworks.htm

                         http://www.snyderstreasures.net/pages/postarticle.htm

Degenerate Art: http://www.ovationtv.com/artszone/programs/degenerate/index.html

October 11, 13th

Photography

Web Sites

Museum of Photography: http://www.photographymuseum.com/index.html

20th Century Photography: http://www.pbs.org/ktca/americanphotography/

Edward Curtis, Photographer: http://www.curtis-collection.com/

Alfred Steiglitz, Photographer: http://www.nga.gov/feature/stieglitz/asmain.htm

Jerry Uelsmann, Photographer: http://www.uelsmann.com/  

Lee Miller, Photographer: http://www.leemiller.co.uk/main.aspx

Week 8

October 18th 20th

A. MIDTERM EXAM

B. Christian Art to Southern Renaissance

Web Sites

Medieval Manuscripts: http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/dres/dres1.html

Amiens Cathedral: tp://www.learn.columbia.edu/Mcahweb/index-frame.html

Giotto: http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/giotto/

Italian Renaissance: http://www.nga.gov/collection/gallery/ita15.htm

                                 http://library.thinkquest.org/2838/artgal.htm

Italian Renaissance architecture: http://rubens.anu.edu.au/htdocs/surveys/italren/renarch/                                   

Week 9

October 25th, 27th 

Renaissance  

Web Sites

Louvre, Museum: http://www.louvre.fr/

Uffizi Gallery ,Florence: http://www.televisual.it/uffizi/

Italian Renaissance: http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/tl/it-ren/

Leonardo Da Vinci: http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/vinci/

Michelangelo: http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/michelangelo/

Raphael: http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/raphael/

Baroque

Web Sites

Vatican Collection http://www.roma2000.it/zmusvat.html

Bernini: http://www.ocaiw.com/bernini.htm

Gentleschi:

Rembrandt: http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/rembrandt/

Rubens: http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/rubens/

Week 10

November 1, 3

Romanticism and Rococo

Web Sites

Goya: http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/goya/

Watteau:http://www.nga.gov/collection/gallery/gg54/gg54-main1.html

Delacroix:  http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/delacroix/

Fragonard: http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/fragonard/

Week 11

November 8th, 10th 

Nineteenth Century Art

Impressionism / Post Impressionism

Web Sites

Impressionism   

http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/glo/impressionism/

Cezanne. http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/cezanne/bio.html

Monet: http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/monet/

Renoir: http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/renoir/

Pissaro: http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/pissarro/

Post Impressionism, Fauvism

Vincent Van Gogh: http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/gogh/

Paul Gauguin: http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/gauguin/ 

Architecture

Frank Lloyd Wright; http://www.delmars.com/wright/flwright.htm

                                  http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/1469/flwquote.html

                                  http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/flw/flw00.html

Great Buildings: http://www.greatbuildings.com/

Louis Kahn: http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/fa267/kahn.html

American Architecture: http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/fa267/fa267_20.html

Week 12

November 15th, 17th

Einstein and Picasso, African Art

Cubism, German Expressionism,  

Web Sites

Fauvism: http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/tl/20th/fauvism.html

Cubism: http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/glo/cubism/

Matisse: http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/matisse/

Picasso: http://www.ocaiw.com/picasso.htm

African Art: http://www.lib.virginia.edu/clemons/RMC/exhib/93.ray.aa/African.html

African Art; Smithsonian: http://www.nmafa.si.edu/

Week 13 November 22, 24 Thanksgiving recess

The 20th Century, Modernism

Web Sites

Modernism: http://www.artsmia.org/modernism/

Bauhaus: http://www.uiah.fi/presentation/history/ebauha.htm

American Regionalism:

Edward Hopper: http://nmaa-ryder.si.edu/collections/exhibits/hopper/

Thomas Hart Benton: http://sheldon.unl.edu/HTML/ARTIST/Benton_TH/AS.html

Grant Wood: http://www.crma.org/collection/wood/wood.htm

                       http://www.swope.org/main/collection/003coll.htm

Week 14

November 29, December1

Dadaism, Surrealism

Regionalism in America

Web Sites

Marcel Duchamp: http://www.artchive.com/artchive/D/duchamp.html

Surrealism: http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/s/surrealism.html

Rene Magritte: http://ebbs.english.vt.edu/hthl/etuds/brown/brown.html

Salvadore Dali: http://www.virtualdali.com/

Georgi di Chirco: http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/m/metaphysical.html

Abstract Expressionism

Mark Rothko: http://www.nga.gov/feature/rothko/rothkosplash.html

Jackson Pollock: http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/pollock/

Week 15

December 6, 8 Final Exam

Pop Art, Post Modernism and the Avant Garde.

http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/tl/20th/pop-art.html

http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/p/popart.html

Andy Warhol Museum: http://www.warhol.org/

Please note:

The above schedule is continually under construction as some sites close and others open. I will do my best to keep the site updated as these changes occur. Please notify me of any problems you have in accessing these sites.

Gallery Reports due Tuesday,  December 6h

Final Exam Thursday,  December 8th

Week 16: Grading Period

 

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