Please be sure to read the assigned chapters in Art Through the Ages before you come to class each week. Slide lists are linked under assignment in two formats, and hot-links to supplementary images will be included on the lists. All other images are available in the eBook.

Material covered in weeks two through seven is different for each section due to holidays; please pay close attention to the divisions next to each week below. Slide lists are in the process of being updated; they will be linked as soon as they have been revised.

Both Sections: The Legacy of Classicism: Baroque, Rococo, Neoclassicism

Friday Section: The Impact of Technology on Nineteenth-century Art, Part 1: Romanticism, Realism, and Impressionism.
Video: J. M. W. Turner

Kleiner, Chapters 30 and 31 (for the next two weeks)
Slide list [.docx] [.pdf]; Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History Thematic Essays (Metropolitan Museum of Art): Nineteenth-Century French Realism; Impressionism: Art and Modernity

Friday Section: The Impact of Technology on Nineteenth-century Art, Part 2: From Neo-Gothic Medievalism to The Arts and Crafts Movement

Kleiner, Chapters 30-31 (for weeks 3, 4, and 6)
Slide list [.docx] [.pdf]
TOAH essays: Louis Daguerre and the Invention of Photography; William Henry Fox Talbot and the Invention of Photography;
The Pre-raphaelite Lens: British Photography and Painting 1848-1875 (National Gallery of Art)
Workshop (set-up in class, complete at home): Photography Before Color. This workshop is required, and due week 5

Friday Section: Exoticism and the Impact of Asia on Nineteenth-century Western Art
Video: Art Nouveau 1890-1914 (The link is to the exhibit at the National Gallery of Art on which the film was based.)
Midterm exam review

Kleiner, Chapters 26, 27 and 28 (Asian art)
Slide list [.docx] [.pdf]
TOAH essays: Japonisme, Art Nouveau, and Exoticism in the Decorative Arts; Getty Museum exhibit: Imagining the Orient.

Friday Section: The Roots of Modern Art, Part 1: Post-Impressionism and Expressionism

Final project introduction

Museum Analysis Essay guidelines and Note-taking template
Kleiner, Chapter 35 (for the next two weeks)
Slide list [.docx] [.pdf]
Workshop: Mattisse and gouaches découpés
Final project guidelines

Monday Section: The Roots of Modern Art, Part 1: Post-Impressionism and Expressionism

Final project introduction

Friday Section: Presidents Day Holiday

Class does not meet

Kleiner, Chapters 33 and 34 (Oceania and Africa)
Slide list [.docx] [.pdf]
Clement Greenberg, "Modernist Painting;" TOAH essays: Cubism, African Influences on Modern Art,
Workshop: Collage and Papier Collé (due week 9)

Twentieth-century Art after Cubism: From Representation to Abstraction, the Bauhaus, Constructivism, Suprematism, Futurism, Surrealism

Degenerate Art; catalogue of the video
Slide list [.docx] [.pdf]
Final Project due