ART207 Calendar Fall 2005
This calendar is subject to change. It is the responsibility of the student to keep up with any changes.
As it stands (the third week), we have already wandered. So be it. Keep reading a cahpter a week from the text. Don’t miss class. We’ll be fine.
Week 1:
24 August
- Objectives, syllabus
- Critiqing Art: general methods
Week 2:
30 August
- Writing About Art: general methods
- EA: Chapter 1: A Human Phenomenon
- EA: Chapter 2: The Language of Art
Week 3:
6 September
- Historical Perspectives: The Ideal in Art
- Ea: Chapter 3: The Language of Architecture
Week 4:
13 September
- Historical Perspectives: The Rise Of The Middle Class
- EA: Chapter 4: Defining Meaning
Week 5:
20 September
- Historical Perspectives: The Shock of the New
- EA: Chapter 5: Who Makes Art?
Week 6:
27 September
- Historical Perspectives: New Forms and New York
- EA: Chapter 6: What do we do with art?
Week 7:
4 October
- Art and Craft: New Mediums
- EA: Chapter 7: Food and Shelter
Week 8:
11 October (Mid-Term)
- Art and Pornography: Mapplethorpe and Serrano
- EA: Chapter 8: Reproduction and Sexuality
Week 9:
18 October
- Art as Social Conscience
- EA: Chapter 9: Deities and Places of Worship
Week 10:
25 October
- Contemporary Kitsch
- EA: Chapter 10: Mortality and Immortality
Week 11 (Advising Week):
1 November
- Art and Society: Is this really neccessary?
- EA: Chapter 11: Power, Politics and Glory
Week 12:
8November
- The responsibility of the designer
- EA: Chapter 12: Social Protest, Affirmation
Week 13:
15November
- Artists Make Movies
- EA: Chapter 13: The Body
Week 14:
22 November
- Thanksgiving (no class)
Week 15:
29 November
- The Artist's Statement: Huh?
- EA: Chapter 14: Race, Gender, Class, Clan
- Value and Valuation: Art and Money
- EA: Chapter 15: Nature, Knowledge, and Technology
Week 16:
6 December
- That's Entertainment?
- EA: Chapter 16: Entertainment
