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| 1. Read the Chapter. View and bookmark this site, "Illuminating World Cultures", from the British Museum. Read a lecture from the Metropolitan Museum of Art on the origins of art in Africa. This just added: excellent site entitled "An Exhibition of Ice Age Art and Symbols." |
| 2. Vocabulary and terminology to know: PALEOLITHIC, NEOLITHIC, PREHISTORIC, SCULPTURE IN THE ROUND, RELIEF SCULPTURE, MODELING, RADIOCARBON DATING, GROUND LINE, MURAL, TWISTED PERSPECTIVE, TERRACOTTA, COMPOSITE VIEW, POST AND LINTEL CONSTRUCTION, HENGE, MEGALITHIC. Also know concepts of OPTICAL, DESCRIPTIVE, AND CONCEPTUAL relating to art. |
3. Key items and issues:
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4. Art from text to remember
b. "Two Bisons" relief carving from France (see page 19). c. Cave paintings at Pech Merle, France (see page 20). d. Cave paintings at Lascaux in France, Hall of Bulls (see page 21) and Aurochs, Horses, and Rhinoceroses (see page 22). e. Deer Hunt, detail, from Catal Hoyuk (see page 26). f. Stonehenge in Wiltshire, England (see page 28). |
| 5. Visit and explore the following:
a. Examine rock art in Africa b. The Chauvet Caves in France
e. Examine "Iron Age in Western
Europe," including items from the La Tene and Romano-Celtic
cultures from 800 bce. f. Here's a site on radiocarbon dating. Although
focused on the Shroud of Turin and thus beyond our time period, it
is still a good site exploring information on Carbon 14 dating. g. And finally, here's a link
to the American Journal of Archaeology
which contains informative articles, with full text on-line, on many many
of the topics covered in Art History I. This is a good URL to "bookmark"
or save in your "favorites." |
| 6. Write a report on the chapter.
Write chapter report related to one of the 'key issues' in #3 above or analyzing one work of art from #4 above. See instructions on how to write chapter reports. ON-CAMPUS STUDENTS: submit your report as described in the schedule distributed in class. INTERNET STUDENTS: submit your report through the LISTSERV at ARTS1303@ACCD.EDU by Wednesday. (Please note chapter reports for Summer Session due as noted on the schedule). |
| 7. INTERNET STUDENTS: Engage in discussion
by commenting or asking a question related to someone else's chapter
report. Your discussion comments are not graded, but will count as
your being present in class, and constitute 15% of your total grade.
Please follow accepted rules for 'netiquette.'
Post to the LISTSERV at this address --ARTS1303@ACCD.EDU-- by Friday. (Please note comments due for Summer Session as noted on the summer schedule). |
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