ARTS 105 - History of Art II

3 Credits: (3 lecture)

Course Description
This course is a chronological survey of painting, sculpture, and architecture beginning with the European Renaissance and ending with the Post-Modern era in Europe and America.  Spring semester only.

Text
No text required.

Objectives
The student will be able to 

A. Evaluate the art of major historical periods by taking into account the original cultural/historical contexts and forces that influence art, the artists who make it, and the patrons who commission it. 

B. Recognize the styles of major historical periods and artists of the past, along with the styles of major artistic movements of the modern world. 

C. Identify the formal elements and principles of art to assist them in their evaluation and recognition of the art of particular time periods, stylistic movements, and artists. 

D. Identify various techniques and materials used to make art. 

 

Content
A. Influence of the cultural/historical contexts of major time periods extending from the European Renaissance to the modern world 

B. Patronage and the functions of art 

C. Language of art: the formal elements and principles 

D. Artistic styles of major civilizations, individual artists, and movements of the modern era 

E. Visual literacy 

Student Evaluation
Evaluation is based on a series of periodic exams, a final exam, and a term project and  

paper.  

 

Bibliography
Adams, Laurie Schneider. Art across Time. 2nd ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2002.  

Clark, Kenneth M.  The Nude: A study in Ideal Form. Garden City: Doubleday, 1959.  

Gardner, Helen, Kleiner, Fred, and Mamiya, Christin. Gardner’s Art through the Ages. 12th ed. Belmont: Thomson/Wadsworth, 2005.  

Gombrich, E.H. Art and Illusion. 6th ed. New York: Phaidon, 2002.  

Holt, Elizabeth G., ed.  A Documentary History of Art. vol. 1. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986. 

Kemp, Martin, ed. The Oxford History of Western Art. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.  

Kostof, Spiro. A History of Architecture: Settings and Rituals. 2nd ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.  

Slatkin, Wendy. Women Artists in History: From Antiquity to the Present. 4th ed. Upper Saddle River: Prentice Hall, 2000. 

Trachtenberg, Marvin and Isabelle Hyman.  Architecture from Prehistory to Post-Modernism.  New York: Abrams, 1986.  

Tucker, Amy.  Visual Literacy: Writing about Art. New York: McGraw Hill, 2002.