AR188 (EX17) OK - History of Art II

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This course has an assignment that is due by 11:55 pm Central Standard Time on Wednesday night of the first week of class. Failure to complete this assignment will result in your removal from the course for non-participation.  See Announcement Blog and Assignments.

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.

Note: used books do not have active access cards which are required for the assigned repeatable chapter quizzes.  The Central online bookstore has the book with access in two versions. 

See:  http://bookstore.mbsdirect.net/centralmethodist.htm

Online Mindtap Access is required for this course. There is course content and quizzes on that Access. There are two purchasing options with this textbook:

  1. Mindtap Access with an ebook, ISBN 978-1-305-86838-0
  2. Mindtap Access with a looseleaf edition of the book, ISBN 978-1-305-93360-6

Mindtap is required. However, you can choose to use only the ebook version of the text through Mindtap. You can purchase Mindtap access directly from the publisher by following the instructor's class address or course key (located in the syllabus) on the first day of class. Occasionally, publisher pricing is less than bookstore pricing.

Course Special Requirements

Microsoft PowerPoint will be necessary to view and hear the slide lectures posted on the myCMU site.  You will need a computer with speakers or headphones to hear the lecture audio.  Note that we are using the concise version of the textbook and some works covered in the lectures are not in the textbook.  This places great importance on being able to hearas well as see the lectures.  (Non-Microsoft versions of PowerPoint are not able to access the audio attached to each lecture, so are not acceptable.)  It is possible to view and hear the lectures on a mobile device [iPad, tablet, etc.], by using the free downloadable Microsoft PowerPoint App.  For full info, see the course syllabus, p. 5.

Course Description

A study of the major world cultures and their artistic achievements. 
Covers the Renaissance to the present.
 

This course will focus on the pivotal role of art in the expression of human consciousness and culture from the early Renaissance in the 14th and 15th centuries to the high Renaissance and Mannerism of the 16th century, the Baroque and Rococo of the 17th and 18th centuries, and on through the many styles of the modern world. (3 credit hours; fulfills Fine Arts requirement)

Course Objectives

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.