THE HISTORY OF WESTERN ART I
FALL 2005

The Great Sphinx of Giza   *
Old Kingdom, Dynasty IV

The Origins of Art: The Stone Ages, 35,000-3,000 B.C.

September 26	Making It: The Aesthetic Sense
September 28 - 30	Origins: The Art of the Caves --Gardner's, 1-24 (11th ed.: xxxiii-xlvii, 1-11)
October 3	The Emergence of Civilization --Gardner's, 24-28 (11th ed.: 12-21);

The Third Millenium: Civilization Defined

October 5	After the Flood: Early Dynastic Sumer and Royal Tombs of Ur --Gardner's, 31-40 (21-25)
October 7	Historic Act, Divine Fulfillment: Akkad and Neo-Sumerian Art --Gardner's, 40-50 (25-37)
October 10 - 12	QUIZ (10/13, on Palaeolithic and Near Eastern Art) The Old Kingdom: The Egyptian Canon and the Monumental Spirit --Gardner's, 55-68 (43-59)

The Second Millenium: Egyptian Climax, Aegean Overture

October 14	NO CLASS
October 17 - 29	The New Kingdom and the Amarna Revolution: --Gardner's, 68-82 (59-75)
October 21	MIDTERM (Palaeolithic, Near Eastern, and Egyptian Art)
October 24	The Octopus and the Labyrinth: The Minoan Aesthetic --Gardner's, 85-92, 93-96 (77-85, 87-89)
October 26	The Architecture and Art of Thera (Santorini) --Gardner's, 92-93 (85-87)
October 28	Violence and Emblem: Mycenaean Art --Gardner's, 96-102 (89-95)

The First Millenium: From Archaic Greece to Inperial Rome

October 31	The Idea of Order: Geometric Greek Art --Gardner's, 105-109 (97-102) --Woodford, 1-3, 38-42
November 2	Precision and Power: The Art of Seventh-Century Greece --Gardner's, 110-111 (102-105) --Woodford, 42-43
November 4	Kouroi and Korai: The Function and Meaning of Archaic Greek Sculpture --Gardner's, 112-120 (105-113) --Woodford, 4-11
November 7	From Archaic to Classical --Gardner's, 120-126 (114-120) --Woodford, 11-15, 44-52
November 9	QUIZ (Bronze Age Aegean and Archaic Greek Art) The Early Classical Style and the Temple of Zeus at Olympiabr> --Gardner's, 126-132 (120-126) --Woodford, 15-22, 23-35, 52-58
November 11 - 14	The Classical Moment: The Acropolis of Athens --Gardner's, 132-145 (126-139); Woodford, 35-37
November 16	From Late Classical to Hellenistic Art --Gardner's, 145-164 (139-159) --Woodford, 59-80
November 18	Introduction to Roman Art: Historicism, Realism, and Space --Gardner's 233-265 (161-194) --Woodford, 85-88, 109-116

Art and Empire

November 21	Art as Propaganda: The Augustan Age --Gardner's, 265-269 (194-199) --Woodford, 89-95
November 23	Art as Propagands: The Ara Pacis Augustae --Ramage, 96-102, 112-118
November 25	Thanksgiving Vacation: No Class
November 28	The Dome of Heaven: Hadrian and the Pantheon --Gardner's, 269-284 (199-215); Woodford, 113-122
November 30	A Tale of Two Columns --Gardner's, 284-198 (215-229); Woodford, 95-100
December 2	The Square and the Circle: The Church of Haghia Sophia --Gardner's, 301-330
December 6 (Tuesday)	FINAL EXAMINATION: 3:15 PM (Greek and Roman Art)

Web site created and maintained by Stephanie Struble for Jeffrey Hurwit,
"History of Western Art" (ArH 204), Fall 2003, Department of Art History, University of Oregon.

* Image courtesy of Jon at   Guardian's Secret,   a web site dedicated to Egyptian culture.