Course Description:
This course is designed as a high-level, challenging course with similar rigor to that found in the collegiate classroom. We will operate under college-level assumptions, the first of which is that you are interested enough in this subject to take the course and, therefore, are willing to do the work entailed in learning the material. Art History is an introductory survey course dealing with the history of art and its evolution from ancient to modern societies. AP Art History covers approximately 30,000 years of art creation, from the Prehistoric and Neolithic periods to 20th Century, Postmodern, and current art trends. Though a brief survey of Asian, African, Islamic, and other Eastern Art is studied, the bulk of this year-long class covers mainly Europe and the rest of the Western World. The course studies historical transition of art periods, as well as how culture, religion, government and history reflect the personal and sociological art trends throughout the existence of humans.
This course is designed as a high-level, challenging course with similar rigor to that found in the collegiate classroom. We will operate under college-level assumptions, the first of which is that you are interested enough in this subject to take the course and, therefore, are willing to do the work entailed in learning the material. Art History is an introductory survey course dealing with the history of art and its evolution from ancient to modern societies. AP Art History covers approximately 30,000 years of art creation, from the Prehistoric and Neolithic periods to 20th Century, Postmodern, and current art trends. Though a brief survey of Asian, African, Islamic, and other Eastern Art is studied, the bulk of this year-long class covers mainly Europe and the rest of the Western World. The course studies historical transition of art periods, as well as how culture, religion, government and history reflect the personal and sociological art trends throughout the existence of humans.
Planning and Pacing Sequence:
Unit Description # block days/weeks
1 Intro. To Art History 2/1
2 Global Prehistory, 30,000-500 BCE. 2/1
3 Ancient Mediterranean, 3500 BCE – 300 CE 5/2
Mesopotamia, Egypt
4 Ancient Greece, Roman Art 5/2
5 Early Europe c.200-1000 CE 30/5
Late Antiquity, Early Christian and Byzantine Art, Middle Ages
(Medieval, Romanesque, Gothic
6 Early, Mid, & Later Global (Indigenous Americas, Africa, W. & Central Asia,
South, East, & Southeast Asia, the Pacific) 30/4
7 Mid Europe & Colonial Americas c. 1000-1750 CE (Early & High
Renaissance in Italy, Renaissance in Northern Europe, Late
Renaissance, Mannerism) 30/5
8 Later Europe and Colonial Americas c. 1750-1900 CE (Baroque,
Rococo, Neoclassicism, Romanticism, Realism, Impressionism,
Post-Impressionism, Symbolism, Fin de siècle, Art Nouveau) 30/5
9 20th Century Europe and Americas c. 1980 to present 2
10 20th to 21st Century Global (Expressionism, Dada, Surrealism, 2
Cubism, Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, Minimalism, Conceptual,
Modernism, Post Modernism, Identity, Multi Culturalism,Art &
Community)
11 Pre-Exam Review 3
12) Post Exam Enrichment Projects 3
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2 Global Prehistory, 30,000-500 BCE. 2/1
3 Ancient Mediterranean, 3500 BCE – 300 CE 5/2
Mesopotamia, Egypt
4 Ancient Greece, Roman Art 5/2
5 Early Europe c.200-1000 CE 30/5
Late Antiquity, Early Christian and Byzantine Art, Middle Ages
(Medieval, Romanesque, Gothic
6 Early, Mid, & Later Global (Indigenous Americas, Africa, W. & Central Asia,
South, East, & Southeast Asia, the Pacific) 30/4
7 Mid Europe & Colonial Americas c. 1000-1750 CE (Early & High
Renaissance in Italy, Renaissance in Northern Europe, Late
Renaissance, Mannerism) 30/5
8 Later Europe and Colonial Americas c. 1750-1900 CE (Baroque,
Rococo, Neoclassicism, Romanticism, Realism, Impressionism,
Post-Impressionism, Symbolism, Fin de siècle, Art Nouveau) 30/5
9 20th Century Europe and Americas c. 1980 to present 2
10 20th to 21st Century Global (Expressionism, Dada, Surrealism, 2
Cubism, Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, Minimalism, Conceptual,
Modernism, Post Modernism, Identity, Multi Culturalism,Art &
Community)
11 Pre-Exam Review 3
12) Post Exam Enrichment Projects 3
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