Session | Session Focus | Reading Assignment | Other Assignment | Meeting Place/Exam Dates |
August 29 | Introduction to course. The Enlightenment | Gardner, 15th edition, Chapter 26 | | |
August 31 | Neoclassicism | Gardner, 15th edition, Chapter 26 | | |
September 5 | Art under Napoleon; Romanticism (Fuseli, Blake, Goya) | Gardner, 15th edition, Chapter 27 | | |
September 7 | Romanticism, Realism | Gardner, 15th edition, Chapter 27 | | |
September 12 | Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Architecture, Photography | Gardner, 15th edition, Chapter 27 | | |
September 14 | Impressionism, Post-Impressionism | Gardner, 15th edition, Chapter 28 | | |
September 19 | Symbolism. Late 19th century sculpture and architecture | Gardner, 15th edition, Chapter 28 | | |
September 21 | Fauvism, German Expressionism | Gardner, 15th edition, Chapter 29 | | |
September 26 | Primitivism & Cubism; Synthetic Cubism; Collage | Gardner, 15th edition, Chapter 29 | | |
September 28 | Futurism; Dada | Gardner, 15th edition, Chapter 29 | | |
October 3 | Suprematism, Constructivism. America: 1900 to 1930; | Gardner, 15th edition, Chapter 29 | | |
October 5 | Europe 1920 - 1945 (Picasso in 1930s; Neue Sachlichkeit) | Gardner, 15th edition, Chapter 29 | | |
October 10 | Surrealism | Gardner, 15th edition, Chapter 29 | | |
October 12 | De Stijl. Sculpture. Architecture. | Gardner, 15th edition, Chapter 29 | | |
October 17 | America 1930-1945 | Gardner, 15th edition, Chapter 29 | | |
October 19 | Midterm | SLIDES FOR IDENTIFICATION & TOPICS ONLINE | Seven journal entries done | Midterm |
October 24 | Postwar Expressionism in Europe; Abstract Expressionism; Post-Painterly Abstraction | Gardner, 15th edition, Chapter 30 | | |
October 26 | Sculpture; Pop Art | Gardner, 15th edition, Chapter 30 | | |
October 31 | Superrealism; Neo-Expressionism | Gardner, 15th edition, Chapter 30 | | |
November 2 | Feminist Art | Gardner, 15th edition, Chapter 30 | | |
November 7 | Architecture: Modernism, Postmodernism, Deconstructivism | Gardner, 15th edition, Chapter 30 | | |
November 9 | Environmental and Site-Specific Art; Performance and Conceptual Art and New Media | Gardner, 15th edition, Chapter 30 | | |
November 14 | Contemporary Art Worldwide | Gardner, 15th edition, Chapter 31 | | |
November 16 | Contemporary Art Worldwide | Gardner, 15th edition, Chapter 31 | | |
November 21 | South and Southeast Asia after 1200 | Gardner, 15th edition, Chapter 32 | | |
November 23 | China and Korea after 1279 | Gardner, 15th edition, Chapter 33 | | |
November 28 | Japan after 1336 | Gardner, 15th edition, Chapter 34 | Journal & Paper | |
November 30 | Native Arts of the Americas 1300 - 1980
Africa 1800 - 1980 | Gardner, 15th edition, Chapter 35, Chapter 37 | | |
December 3 - 9 (precise date to be announced) | | Slides for identification & Preparation topics online | | Final Examination |