Session | Session Focus | Reading Assignment | Other Assignment | Meeting Place/Exam Dates |
January 15 | Introduction to course. The Enlightenment | Gardner, 15th edition, Chapter 26 | | |
January 17 | Neoclassicism | Gardner, 15th edition, Chapter 26 | | |
January 22 | Art under Napoleon; Romanticism (Fuseli, Blake, Goya) | Gardner, 15th edition, Chapter 27 | | |
January 24 | Romanticism, Realism | Gardner, 15th edition, Chapter 27 | | |
January 29 | Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Architecture, Photography | Gardner, 15th edition, Chapter 27 | | |
January 31 | Impressionism, Post-Impressionism | Gardner, 15th edition, Chapter 28 | | |
February 5 | Symbolism. Late 19th century sculpture and architecture | Gardner, 15th edition, Chapter 28 | | |
February 7 | Fauvism, German Expressionism | Gardner, 15th edition, Chapter 29 | First visual analysis due | |
February 12 | Primitivism & Cubism; Synthetic Cubism; Collage | Gardner, 15th edition, Chapter 29 | | |
February 14 | Futurism; Dada | Gardner, 15th edition, Chapter 29 | | |
February 16 (Friday; Make-up for missing 25 April) | Suprematism, Constructivism. America: 1900 to 1930; | Gardner, 15th edition, Chapter 29 | | |
February 19 | Europe 1920 - 1945 (Picasso in 1930s; Neue Sachlichkeit) | Gardner, 15th edition, Chapter 29 | | |
February 21 | Surrealism | Gardner, 15th edition, Chapter 29 | | |
February 26 | De Stijl. Sculpture. Architecture. | Gardner, 15th edition, Chapter 29 | Second visual analysis due | |
February 28 | America 1930-1945 | Gardner, 15th edition, Chapter 29 | | |
March 5 | Midterm | | | Midterm |
March 7 | Postwar Expressionism in Europe; Abstract Expressionism; Post-Painterly Abstraction | Gardner, 15th edition, Chapter 30 | | |
March 12 | Sculpture; Pop Art | Gardner, 15th edition, Chapter 30 | | |
March 14 | Superrealism; Neo-Expressionism | Gardner, 15th edition, Chapter 30 | | |
March 19 | Feminist Art | Gardner, 15th edition, Chapter 30 | | |
March 21 | Architecture: Modernism, Postmodernism, Deconstructivism | Gardner, 15th edition, Chapter 30 | | |
March 26 | Environmental and Site-Specific Art; Performance and Conceptual Art and New Media | Gardner, 15th edition, Chapter 30 | Third visual analysis due | |
March 28 | Contemporary Art Worldwide | Gardner, 15th edition, Chapter 31 | | |
April 9 | Contemporary Art Worldwide | Gardner, 15th edition, Chapter 31 | | |
April 11 | South and Southeast Asia after 1200 | Gardner, 15th edition, Chapter 32 | | |
April 16 | China and Korea after 1279 | Gardner, 15th edition, Chapter 33 | | |
April 18 | Japan after 1336 | Gardner, 15th edition, Chapter 34 | Fourth visual analysis and Paper Due | Fourth visual analysis and Paper Due |
April 23 | Native Arts of the Americas 1300 - 1980 | Gardner, 15th edition, Chapter 35 | | |
28 April - 4 May (precise date to be announced) | | | | Final Examination |