Brevard, NC
Dr. A. Chapin Sims
Art 101
Office:
216 Sims Art Building TTh 11:30 am – 12:45pm
Tel. 883-8292 x. 2329
Email:
chapin@brevard.edu
Web:
http://www2.brevard.edu/chapin/annewebpage/
Office
Hours: by appointment
Prerequisites: None
This course satisfies a distribution requirement
in either Area IIIA (History) and IV (Appreciation of the Arts) in the General Education
Requirements.
What is Art History?
Art history throws light
on the evolution of human society. While
history provides written records of past events, art objects preserve the
actual result of past investments in human imagination, labor, and wealth. Every art object raises questions: who
produced it? Why? What is its function? What does it mean? What does it tell us about that period of
human society? The answers to these
questions involve the study of the social, religious, intellectual, and
historical contexts of art and form the basis of art history.
Goals and Objectives:
This course offers an
introduction to the history of western art from the Renaissance in the
fourteenth century to the Modern era into the 21st century. Individual art objects—paintings, sculptures,
architectural monuments, drawings, photographs, ceramics, and textiles—are
discussed in detail within their social, religious, intellectual, and
historical contexts. The goal is to explore
the meaning of the art object within the context of the society that produced
it. The result is an ever-evolving
picture of human society.
Implementation:
AH 202 is primarily a
lecture course with a question-and-answer/discussion component. Individual objects are presented to the class
in a lecture setting, but students are frequently asked questions that promote
group discussions about the objects themselves.
The students practice
many skills in these discussions. Visual
analysis—the process of analyzing what is seen in a work of art—is the
foundation of art history and is developed with both the spoken and written
word. One assigned paper requires the
use of visual analysis.
Regular quizzes test
knowledge and understanding of the monuments.
Learning to recognize the art objects provides
a working visual “vocabulary” while memorizing their dates provides the
students with a lasting grasp of historical periods. Testing develops skills to think and analyze
quickly, and paper writing offers the student the opportunity for greater
reflection into the meaning of a monument while practicing writing skills.
Teacher's
Education:
This course meets the following requirements for Art Education Majors.
·
Standard
1 (Teachers know the content they teach.
Expectations:
· All students are expected to come to every class unless sick or participating in a Brevard College-sponsored activity
· All students are expected to arrive on time to each class.
· All students are expected to have done the required reading every week.
· All students are expected to be courteous to their fellow students and to their ideas and opinions
· All students are expected and encouraged to participate in class and share views
· All students are invited to ask questions, seek answers, to thrive and prosper in this course.
AH 201 Course
Requirements:
1. Attendance.
Class attendance is
mandatory. Attendance will be taken at
every class starting the second week of class.
Each class attended is worth 4 points for a total of 100 points.
2. Completion of reading assignments.
Text: The text selected
for this course is Laurie Schneider Adams, Art Across
Time, 2nd ed., vol. 2. It is available in the student bookstore.
3. Exams and Quizzes:
There will be two
midterms and a final exam. There are
also regular quizzes that are designed to help students keep up with the
material.
Exams
There are two midterm exams and a final exam, each an essay
exam of 100 points each. Students will
be asked to write an art historical essay analyzing and synthesizing the
monuments studied in class.
Quizzes (6 quizzes; 50
points each)
Identification
of artistic monuments, definition of terms, and quizzing on factual material. The lowest quiz grade is dropped.
Summary of grading:
Attendance 100 pts.
Exams 300
pts.
Quizzes 250
pts.
Total 650 pts.
Grades are assigned on a
curve.
AH
202H Honor’s Component: Students enrolled in the Honor’s section will note that the
course meets with regular AH 202 students. In addition to the course
requirements of AH 202, the Honors students will also complete the following:
·
Honor
students will write a visual analysis of painting as a short paper of 3-4 pp. The goal of the paper will be to describe in
detail the stylistic characteristics of little-known painting, to try to
identify it by style and historical period, and to place it within its art
historical context. Details of the assignment will be circulated in class.
·
Honor
students will each present three key monuments of art history to the class –
one for each third of the course. Students will describe the important features
of the style, iconography, and historical context of each monument. Each
presentation should be no longer than 15 minutes in length and is worth 1/3 of
an exam grade, so that the three presentations together are the equivalent of a
100-point exam.
·
Honor
students will be responsible for learning additional key monuments. These
monuments may or may not be discussed in class as time allows, but they can all
be found in the text book. Honors students will be quizzed on these key
monuments in an Honors section of the regular class quizzes.
·
In
addition to extra key monuments, Honors student quizzes may be slightly longer
than regular AH 201 quizzes, so that an Honors quiz may have a total of 60
possible points whereas a regular AH 201 quiz will have a total of 50 points.
·
Honor
students will be graded to a higher standard deserving of Honor students.
Summary
of grading for 201H:
Attendance 100 points
Midterm exams 300
Honors quizzes 300
Honors presentations 100
Honors paper 100
Total 900 points
Policies:
Missed exams and quizzes
will be counted “0”. No make-up exams or
quizzes are given without compelling reason and without documented proof. A
written paper will not be substituted for a missed exam.
All cell phones and
other electronic devices are to be turned off and put away during all classes,
quizzes and exams. No students are allowed to leave the classroom (except for
an emergency) during exams and quizzes.
Exams not picked up in
class on the day that they are handed back can be picked up during the
professor’s office hours.
Students
with documented or undocumented learning disabilities or special needs
(including emergency medical information) should speak with the professor
during the first week of class about any special arrangements that are
necessary. The student with a learning disability should go to the Learning
Enhancement Center to obtain an accommodation letter.
All students will follow the Honor
Code and adhere to its guidelines. Any student who has not signed the Honor
Code pledge may get a form at the office of the Registrar. All students should
be particularly aware of the rules in the Honor Code regarding plagiarism and
cheating.
Brevard College takes the infringement of
these rules very seriously and carries out the appropriate academic and
disciplinary actions.
Penalties range from a grade of zero on the assignment to exclusion from the
class for the rest of the semester and/or a final grade of F in the
course.
The professor will
attempt to adhere as closely as possible to this syllabus but details are
subject to change.
Th Jan. 12 General
Introduction.
Read: Stokstad introduction
T Jan. 17 Art of 14th Century Italy and the Art
of the French Court.
Read: Stokstad TBA
Th Jan. 19 Early
Renaissance Art, 1: Painting in 15th Century Flanders
Read: Stokstad 577-606
T Jan. 24 Early Renaissance Art, 2: Art and Architecture of
Italy in the 15th Century.
Read: Stokstad 610-628.
Th Jan. 26 Early Renaissance Art, 3. Art
and Architecture of Italy in the 15th Century, cont.
Read: Stokstad 628-643
QUIZ 1
TTh Jan. 31- The
High Renaissance in Italy, 1-2
Feb. 2 Read:
Stokstad 645-664
T Feb. 7 The High Renaissance in
Italy, 3: Venetian and Northern Painting.
Read: Stokstad 664-682
QUIZ 2.
Th Feb. 9 EXAM
1
T Feb. 14 Mannerism and 16th
Century in Northern Europe.
Read: Stokstad 682-715
Th Feb. 16 17th Century Baroque Architecture.
Read: Stokstad 719-730
T Feb. 21 17th
Century Italian Baroque Sculpture and Painting
Read: Stokstad 730-739
Th Feb. 23 17th Century Baroque Art in Northern
Europe.
Read: Stokstad 758-785
T Feb. 28 17th Century Baroque Painting in Spain
and France.
Read: Stokstad 739-758
QUIZ 3
Th Mar. 2 Rococo
Art and Architecture of the 18th Century
Read: Stokstad 897-912.
TTh Mar. 6-10 SPRING
BREAK
T Mar. 14 Neoclassicism: The Late 18th and Early 19th
Centuries
Read: Stokstad 912-939
Th Mar. 16 Romanticism:
The Late 18th and Early 19th Centuries
Read: Stokstad 941-964
QUIZ 4
T Mar. 21 EXAM
2
Th Mar. 23 The 19th Century: Realism.
Read: Stokstad 965-979
TTh Mar. 28-30 The 19th
Century: Impressionism
Read: Stokstad 979-993
T Apr. 4 The 19th
Century: Post-Impressionism and Symbolism.
Read: Stokstad 993-1003
.
Th Apr. 6 Turn
of the Century: Art Nouveau, Expressionism and Fauvism
Stokstad 1003-1031
T Apr. 11 The Early 20th Century: Cubism and Futurism
Read: Stokstad 1031-1048
QUIZ 5.
Th Apr. 13 The 20th Century Between the Wars: Dada and
Surrealism.
Read: Stokstad 1048-1079
T Apr. 18 Post-War 20th Century, 1: Abstract
Expressionism.
Read: Stokstad 1083-1101
Th Apr. 20 The
Fifties, Sixties, and Seventies: Pop Art and Post-Modernism.
Read: Stokstad 1101-1113
T Apr. 25 Post-Modernism
Today: Art and Architecture of the Eighties and Nineties.
Read: Stokstad 1113-1152
QUIZ 6.
Th Apr. 27 Review
Sat. May 6 FINAL EXAM.
1:30 p.m