Session | Session Focus | Reading Assignment | Other Assignment | Meeting Place/Exam Dates |
August 28 | Introduction to course. The Enlightenment | Gardner, 15th edition, Chapter 26 | | |
August 30 | Neoclassicism | Gardner, 15th edition, Chapter 26 | | |
September 4 | Art under Napoleon; Romanticism (Fuseli, Blake, Goya) | Gardner, 15th edition, Chapter 27 | | |
September 6 | Romanticism, Realism | Gardner, 15th edition, Chapter 27 | | |
September 11 | Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Architecture, Photography | Gardner, 15th edition, Chapter 27 | | |
September 13 | Impressionism, Post-Impressionism | Gardner, 15th edition, Chapter 28 | | |
September 18 | Symbolism. Late 19th century sculpture and architecture | Gardner, 15th edition, Chapter 28 | | |
September 20 | Fauvism, German Expressionism | Gardner, 15th edition, Chapter 29 | | |
September 22 (Friday. Make-up for 1 November Holiday) | Primitivism & Cubism; Synthetic Cubism; Collage | Gardner, 15th edition, Chapter 29 | | |
September 25 | Futurism; Dada | Gardner, 15th edition, Chapter 29 | | |
September 27 | Suprematism, Constructivism. America: 1900 to 1930; | Gardner, 15th edition, Chapter 29 | | |
October 2 | Europe 1920 - 1945 (Picasso in 1930s; Neue Sachlichkeit) | Gardner, 15th edition, Chapter 29 | | |
October 4 | Surrealism | Gardner, 15th edition, Chapter 29 | | |
October 9 | De Stijl. Sculpture. Architecture. | Gardner, 15th edition, Chapter 29 | | |
October 11 | America 1930-1945 | Gardner, 15th edition, Chapter 29 | | |
October 16 | Midterm | | | Midterm |
October 18 | Postwar Expressionism in Europe; Abstract Expressionism; Post-Painterly Abstraction | Gardner, 15th edition, Chapter 30 | | |
October 23 | Sculpture; Pop Art | Gardner, 15th edition, Chapter 30 | | |
October 25 | Superrealism; Neo-Expressionism | Gardner, 15th edition, Chapter 30 | | |
October 30 | Feminist Art | Gardner, 15th edition, Chapter 30 | | |
November 6 | Architecture: Modernism, Postmodernism, Deconstructivism | Gardner, 15th edition, Chapter 30 | | |
November 8 | Environmental and Site-Specific Art; Performance and Conceptual Art and New Media | Gardner, 15th edition, Chapter 30 | | |
November 13 | Contemporary Art Worldwide | Gardner, 15th edition, Chapter 31 | | |
November 15 | Contemporary Art Worldwide | Gardner, 15th edition, Chapter 31 | | |
November 20 | South and Southeast Asia after 1200 | Gardner, 15th edition, Chapter 32 | | |
November 22 | China and Korea after 1279 | Gardner, 15th edition, Chapter 33 | | |
November 27 | Japan after 1336 | Gardner, 15th edition, Chapter 34 | Journal and Paper Due | Journal and Paper Due |
November 29 | Native Arts of the Americas 1300 - 1980 | Gardner, 15th edition, Chapter 35 | | |
December 2- 7 (precise date to be announced) | | | | Final Examination |