ART1021 — Art History of the Western World: Pre-History to Gothic Europe
ART 1021 - Art History of the Western World: Pre-History to Gothic Europe ART 1021 - Art History of the Western World: Pre-History to Gothic Europe Hours/Week: Lecture 3 Course Description: This course traces the development of art and architecture from the Paleolithic through the European Gothic Periods - the art, architecture, philosophies, and traditions that formed the European canon. Topics present many non-western art origins and perspectives from a diverse range of cultural sources. MnTC Goals 6 Humanities/Fine Arts, 8 Global Perspective What is the study of Art History? a. Analysis Strategies: Written, Diagrammatic, Verbal Critique b. Ethics of Cultural Comparison c. Current Art Historical Issues and Scholarship Trends 2. Vocabulary common to Art and Design 3. Visual analysis of an image: Actively Seeing 4. Early Art: Paleolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic Art, approx. 30,000-2,000 BCE 5. The Art of Mesopotamia, approx. 3,500 BCE- 636 CE 6. The Art of Ancient Egypt, approx. 3,000 BCE- 30 BCE 7. The Art of the Prehistoric Aegean, approx. 3,000 BCE- 1200 BCE 8. The Art of Ancient Greece, approx. 900 BCE-31 BCE 9. The Art of the Etruscans, approx. 900 BCE-89 BCE 10. The Art of Ancient Rome, approx. 753 BCE-337 CE 11. The Art of Late Antiquity: The decline of Rome, approx. 29 CE-526CE 12. The Art of Byzantium: Eastern Roman Empire, approx. 527 CE-1453 CE 13. The Art of the Islamic World, approx. 600 CE-1600CE 14. Early Medieval Art in the West, approx. 476 CE-1050CE 15. Ea
Prerequisites: ENGL0950, RDNG0940, RDNG0950, ENGL0090, ESOL0051, ESOL0052