Art History
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Course Description
Drawing from non-Western cultures (African, Asian, Latin American, Islamic) as well as Western cultures, this course explores architecture, painting, sculpture, and photography as they reflect and perform important social and political work. Students use works of art as primary source documents in uncovering the values and concerns of diverse societies, in developing standards for evaluating and contrasting world cultures, and in promoting an understanding of artistic expression and visual communication. The Addison Gallery and other local collections and exhibitions will provide for the study of original works of art. Each term may be taken separately. The fall term will focus on material from pre-history through the 14th century, and the winter term and spring term will cover a variety of international artistic responses relevant to visual literacy, historical development, and contemporary context. This course will prepare students for the AP examination in history of art if taken all three terms. Completion of Art 200 or Art 250 is recommended but not required.
Suggested Subjects
Reference Sources
Facts on File encyclopedia of art - REF 703 F15
A dictionary of art terms and techniques - 703 M45 (In the stacks, not the Garver Room)
Encyclopaedia of the arts - REF 703 R22E
The Encyclopedia of visual art - REF 703 EN 191
Encyclopedia of world art - REF 703 EN 19
Recommended Databases
ARTstor [1] includes approximately 500,000 images covering art, architecture and archeology. ARTstor's software tools support a wide range of pedagogical and research uses including: viewing and analyzing images through features such as zooming and panning, saving groups of images online for personal or shared uses, and creating and delivering presentations both online and offline.
Selected Internet Resources
National Gallery of Art houses one of the finest collections in the world illustrating major achievements in painting, sculpture, decorative arts, and works on paper from the Middle Ages to the present. Records on all of the more than 110,000 objects and images of more than 6,000 objects in the collection are available online.
