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Art History 204 surveys the major traditions of ancient art and architecture, from the cave-paintings of Old Stone Age France and Spain, to the pyramids, ziggurats, and royal portraits of Egypt and Mesopotamia, to the temples, statues, and civic spaces of Greece and Rome.
In the term ahead we will examine the most significant monuments of
antiquity,
While the textbooks introduce the student to the principal works of art and architecture of antiquity, it is in the classroom that the cultural analysis of ancient art takes place. The student is thus expected not only to read the assigned readings but also to attend lectures and weekly discussion sections (run by Graduate Teaching Fellows) regularly. (It is our experience that students who miss more than a few class sessions do not perform well overall.) |
If you have a documented disability and anticipate needing accommodations in this course, please make arrangements to meet with me as soon as possible. Please request that the Counselor for Students with Disabilities send a letter verifying your disability. Her name is Hilary Gerdes and she can be reached at 6-3211 or at hgerdes@ oregon.uoregon.edu |
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and since we will cover a period some 35,000 years long we
will have to move briskly. But whenever possible we will attempt to
place these works in their historical, religious, and intellectual
contexts. That is, we will consider the work of ancient art as a
vehicle of cultural expression and as a guide to the underlying systems
of belief or ideologies of the cultures or states that produce them.