Art History Syllabus Instructor Jake Stapleton Phone 525-3100 ext. 318 Email jstapes@sps186.org Location Room 316 Office Hours 3 rd Hour After school starting in October from 3:30-4:30 everyday. COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course is designed for the highly motivated visual art student that has expressed an interest in completing the AP Art History exam. The course covers art from the Paleolithic period through postmodernism and is designed to provide students with the same material covered in an introductory college course in art history. Students learn to understand works of art through both a contextual and a visual analysis of the major forms of artistic expression from the past and present as well as from a wide variety of cultures. The yearlong course is designed to be a chronological examination of art through units of study that are adapted from chapters in the textbook: Kleiner, Fred S. Gardner s Art Through The Ages: A Global History. 13th ed. Boston. MA: Thomson Wadsworth, 2009. COURSE OBJECTIVES: Think critically about art and how it relates to history Understand works of art within the historical context as they relate to issues such as politics, religion, patronage, gender, function and ethnicity. Examine the relationship of context, function and style of art within any given culture. Demonstrate a mastery of critical analysis of the three major forms of art: architecture, painting, and sculpture in the various cultures studied through a written format. Identify and convey the interrelationships of the elements and principles of art in visual images. Describe and identify the various techniques, media, and processes of the three major art forms (architecture, painting, and sculpture). Syllabus This syllabus is organized to include course content material from the prehistoric world to the present in both Western and non-western cultures. This yearlong course is designed to be a chronological examination of art through units of study that are adapted from chapters in the textbook: Kleiner, Fred S. Gardner s Art Through The Ages: A Global History. 13th ed. Boston. MA: Thomson Wadsworth, 2009. Weekly time frames indicate specific areas to be covered during the course of study. Full Year, 2014-2015 Page 1
Grading: Grading for AP will be on a point system. Points are totaled to determine the grade for each grading period. The scale is listed below. It is advised that students NOT THROW ANYTHING AWAY. Inadequate and poor planning on the student s part does not constitute an emergency on the teacher s part. In short, if you see you are behind and NEED an A, plan better and study harder. 100-90% = A 89-80% = B 79-70 % = C 69-60% = D 59% Below = F Late Work: I will accept late work once. I will give you feedback on late work, but the highest grade you will receive will be a C. Handing in work late deprives you of critical feedback from the class. Plagiarism Plagiarism can involve not only written work but also artwork. In short, your work is your property and visa versa. Plagiarism is a form of cheating. Any time a student uses someone else's work and does not give that person credit, it is plagiarism. Anyone who plagiarizes will receive an F on the assignment Week 1 Introduction: What Is Art History? (Pages 1-13) Chapter 1: Art Before History (Pages 14-30) Paleolithic Art Neolithic Art Test - Slide identification, multiple choice, and discussion questions related to the content of this week s material in a Week 2 Chapter 2: The Ancient Near East (Pages 31-52) Sumer Akkad and the Third Dynasty of Ur Second Millennium BCE Assyria Neo-Babylonia and Persia Test - Slide identification, multiple choice, and discussion questions related to the content of this week s material in a Full Year, 2014-2015 Page 2
Week 3 Chapter 3: Egypt Under The Pharaohs (Pages 53-80) The Predynastic and Early Dynastic Periods The Old Kingdom The New Kingdom First Millennium BCE Test - Slide identification, multiple choice, and discussion questions related to the content of this week s material in a Week 4 Chapter 4: The Prehistoric Aegean (Pages 80-98) Cycladic Art Minoan Art Mycenaean Art Test - Slide identification, multiple choice, and discussion questions related to the content of this week s material in a Week 5 Chapter 5: Ancient Greece (Pages 99-156) Geometric and Orientalizing Periods Early and High Classical Periods Late Classical Period Hellenistic Period Week 6 Chapter 6: South And Southwest Asia Before 1200 (Pages 157-180) India and Pakistan Southeast Asia Week 7 Chapter 7: China and Korea to 1279 (Pages 181-206) China Korea Test- Slide identification, multiple choice, and discussion questions related to the content of this week s material in a Week 8 Chapter 8: Japan Before 1333 (Pages 207-222) Japan Before Buddhism Buddhist Japan Full Year, 2014-2015 Page 3
Week 9 Chapter 9: The Etruscans (Pages 223-236) Early Etruscan Art Later Etruscan Art 9-Week Test This test will cover the first 9 chapters. It will include: slide identification, multiple choice, and discussion questions related to the content of material in a Week 10 Chapter 10: The Roman Empire (Pages 237-288) Republic Pompeii and the Cities of Vesuvius Early Empire High Empire Late Empire Week 11 Chapter 11: Late Antiquity (Pages 289-310) Dura-Europos The Catacombs and Funerary Art Architecture and Mosaics Luxury Arts Week 12 Chapter 12: Byzantium (Pages 311-340) Early Byzantine Art Middle Byzantine Art Late Byzantine Art Week 13 Chapter 13: The Islamic World (Pages 341-364) Full Year, 2014-2015 Page 4
Early Islamic Art Later Islamic Art Week 14 Chapter 14: Native Arts Of The Americas Before 1300 (Pages 365-392) Mesoamerica Intermediate Area South America North America Week 15 Chapter 15: Africa Before 1800 (Pages 393-406) Prehistoric and Early Cultures 11th to 18th Centuries Week 16 Chapter 16: Early Medieval Europe (Pages 307-430) Art Of The Warrior Lords Christian Art: Scandinavia, British Isles, Spain Carolingian Art Ottonian Art Test - Slide identification, multiple choice, and discussion questions related to 5 the content of this week s material in a Week 17 Chapter 17: Romanesque Europe (Pages 431-460) France and Northern Spain Holy Roman Empire Italy Normandy and England Week 18 Chapter 18: Gothic Europe (Pages 461-496) French Gothic Full Year, 2014-2015 Page 5
Gothic Outside of France Semester Test This test will cover the first 18 chapters. It will include: slide identification, multiple choice, and discussion questions related to the content of material in a Week 19 Chapter 19: Italy, 1200 To 1400 (Pages 497-518) The 13th Century The 14th Century Week 20 Chapter 20: Northern Europe, 1400 To 1500 (Pages 519-540) Burgundy and Flanders France Holy Roman Empire Week 21 Chapter 21: Italy, 1400 To 1500 (Pages 541-578) Florence The Princely Courts Week 22 Chapter 22: Italy, 1500 To 1600 (Pages 579-624) High and Late Renaissance Mannerism Week 23 Chapter 23: Northern Europe And Spain, 1500 To 1600 (Pages 625-648) Holy Roman Empire France The Netherlands Spain Full Year, 2014-2015 Page 6
Week 24 Chapter 24: Italy And Spain, 1600 To 1700 (Pages 649-672) Italy Spain 9-Week Test This test will cover the chapters 19 through 24. It will include: slide identification, multiple choice, and discussion questions related to the content of material in a Week 25 Chapter 25: Northern Europe, 1600 To 1700 (Pages 673-704) Flanders Dutch Republic France England Week 26 Chapter 26: South and Southeast Asia After 1200 (Pages 705-718) India Southeast Asia Contemporary Art Week 27 Chapter 27: China And Korea After 1279 (Pages 719-734) China Korea Week 28 Chapter 28: Japan After 1336 (Pages 735-750) Japan, 1336 to 1868 Modern Japan Full Year, 2014-2015 Page 7
Week 29 Chapter 29: Europe And America, 1700 To 1800 (Pages 751-776) Rococo The Enlightenment Neoclassicism Week 30 Chapter 30: Europe And America, 1800 To 1870 (Pages 777-820) Art under Napoleon Romanticism Realism Architecture Photography Week 31 Chapter 31: Europe And America, 1870 To 1900 (Pages 821-852) Impressionism Post-Impressionism Symbolism Sculpture Architecture and Decorative Arts Week 32 Chapter 32: Native Arts Of The Americas After 1300 (Pages 853-870) Mesoamerica South America North America Week 33 Chapter 33: Oceania (Pages 871-888) Australia and Melanesia Micronesia Full Year, 2014-2015 Page 8
Polynesia Week 34 Chapter 34: Africa After 1800 (Pages 889-908) 19th Century 20th Century Contemporary Art Week 35 Chapter 35: Europe And America, 1900 To 1945 (Pages 909-968) Europe, 1900 to 1920 America, 1900 to 1930 Europe, 1920 to 1945 America, 1930 to 1945 Architecture Week 36 Chapter 36: Europe And America, After 1945 (Pages 969-1025) Painting and Sculpture, 1945-1970 Painting and Sculpture since 1970 Architecture and Site-Specific Art Performance and Conceptual Art and New Media Full Year, 2014-2015 Page 9