AR188 (EX20) 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.

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.

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 assigned quizzes are 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  

You can purchase Mindtap access from the online campus bookstore (http://bookstore.mbsdirect.net/centralmethodist.htm)or directly from the publisher by following the instructor's class address located in the syllabus (p. 4). 

Course Special Requirements

Microsoft PowerPoint will be necessary to view and listen to the required lectures for the course.  You will need a computer with speakers or headphones to hear the audio which accompanies each PowerPoint lecture.  Non-Microsoft versions of PowerPoint may not be able to access the audio attached to each lecture.  If iPads or smartphones are unable to access the audio for the lectures, it will be necessary to use a computer for the lectures and their audio.