The objectives for students in this course are the following:
1. To develop cultural perspective on our own times by mastering the flow and change of major works and movements in the arts through history and how they illumine, express, and sometimes shape the concerns and consciousness of their times.
2. To master and learn to use the specific vocabulary of the arts and their history in order to examine both the style of art works through their formal analysis, and their content and meaning through exploring their contemporary cultural contexts.
3. To develop awareness of the many levels of meaning and richness of content communicated by artists in some works of art .
4 . To discuss intelligently and perceptively art works, styles, content, and meaning, in their historical contexts.
TEXTBOOK:
Fred S. Kleiner, Gardner's Art through the Ages: A Concise Global History , 4th Edition, Wadsworth Cengage Learning, Boston, 2017, with MindTap Access Card.
Online Mindtap Access is required for this course. Course content and required quizzes are on that MindTap Access as well as the complete ebook version of Kleiner. Our CMU Bookstore will have MindTap Access Cards. You can also get free instant access for two weeks at Cengagebrain.com. The course key is MTPNFC1NSKMR
Buying the Access Card with ebook at the bookstore or directly from Cengage will continue your access for the next 6 months. There is also the option of buying MindTap with ebook and the loose leaf textbook. These options (both with 2 free weeks) are listed below.
1. Mindtap Access with an ebook, ISBN 978-1-305-65951-3 (instant access online)
2. Mindtap Access with an ebook and a looseleaf edition of the book, ISBN 978-1-30593363-7 (instant access online, loose leaf text to follow by mail)
The site for Cengage MindTap registration is https://www.cengage.com/dashboard/#/course-confirmation/MTPNFC1NSKMR/initial-course-confirmation