Session | Session Focus | Reading Assignment | Other Assignment | Meeting Place/Exam Dates |
January 18 | Introduction to course. The Enlightenment | Gardner, 15th edition, Chapter 26 | | |
January 20 | Neoclassicism | Gardner, 15th edition, Chapter 26 | | |
January 25 | Art under Napoleon; Romanticism (Fuseli, Blake, Goya) | Gardner, 15th edition, Chapter 27 | | |
January 27 | Romanticism, Realism | Gardner, 15th edition, Chapter 27 | | |
February 1 | Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Architecture, Photography | Gardner, 15th edition, Chapter 27 | | |
February 3 | Impressionism, Post-Impressionism | Gardner, 15th edition, Chapter 28 | | |
February 8 | Symbolism. Late 19th century sculpture and architecture | Gardner, 15th edition, Chapter 28 | | |
February 10 | Fauvism, German Expressionism | Gardner, 15th edition, Chapter 29 | | |
February 15 | Primitivism & Cubism; Synthetic Cubism; Collage | Gardner, 15th edition, Chapter 29 | | |
February 17 | Futurism; Dada | Gardner, 15th edition, Chapter 29 | | |
February 22 | Suprematism, Constructivism. America: 1900 to 1930; | Gardner, 15th edition, Chapter 29 | | |
February 24 | Europe 1920 - 1945 (Picasso in 1930s; Neue Sachlichkeit) | Gardner, 15th edition, Chapter 29 | | |
February 29 | Surrealism | Gardner, 15th edition, Chapter 29 | | |
March 2 | De Stijl. Sculpture. Architecture. | Gardner, 15th edition, Chapter 29 | | |
March 4 (Make-up day for Monday, April 25) | America 1930-1945 | Gardner, 15th edition, Chapter 29 | | |
March 7 | Midterm | | | Midterm |
March 9 | Postwar Expressionism in Europe; Abstract Expressionism; Post-Painterly Abstraction | Gardner, 15th edition, Chapter 30 | | |
March 14 | Sculpture; Pop Art | Gardner, 15th edition, Chapter 30 | | |
March 16 | Superrealism; Neo-Expressionism | Gardner, 15th edition, Chapter 30 | | |
March 21 | Feminist Art | Gardner, 15th edition, Chapter 30 | | |
March 23 | Architecture: Modernism, Postmodernism, Deconstructivism | Gardner, 15th edition, Chapter 30 | | |
April 4 | Environmental and Site-Specific Art; Performance and Conceptual Art and New Media | Gardner, 15th edition, Chapter 30 | | |
April 6 | Contemporary Art Worldwide | Gardner, 15th edition, Chapter 31 | | |
April 11 | Contemporary Art Worldwide | Gardner, 15th edition, Chapter 31 | | |
April 13 | South and Southeast Asia after 1200 | Gardner, 15th edition, Chapter 32 | | |
April 18 | China and Korea after 1279 | Gardner, 15th edition, Chapter 33 | | |
April 20 | Japan after 1336 | Gardner, 15th edition, Chapter 34 | | |
April 25 | Native Arts of the Americas 1300 - 1980 | Gardner, 15th edition, Chapter 35 | | |
April 27 | Africa 1800 - 1980 | Gardner, 15th edition, Chapter 37 | | |
April 30 - May 6 (precise date to be announced) | | | | Final Examination |