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Introduction
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 1.1: What is Art?
Chapter 1.2: Who is Considered an Artist? Why Do We Make Art?
Chapter 1.3: The Role of the Viewer
Chapter 1.4: Before You Move to the Next Chapter
Chapter 2 Introduction
Chapter 2.1: Elements and Principles of Design
Chapter 2.2: Types of Art
Chapter 2.3: Styles of Art (IN PROGRESS)
Chapter 2.4: Before You Move to the Next Chapter
Chapter 3 Introduction
Chapter 3.1: Converging Cultures
Chapter 3.2: Dreams and Visions
Chapter 3.3: History and Memory
Chapter 3.4: Ceremony and Society
Chapter 3.5: Cosmology and Belief
Chapter 3.6: Aesthetics
Chapter 3.7: Expression (Philosophical, Political, Religious, Personal)
Chapter 3.8: Unification/Exclusion
Chapter 3.9: Communication
Chapter 3.10: Protest and Shock
Chapter 3.11: Celebration and Commemoration
Chapter 3.12: Worship
1. Chapter 3.13: Information, Education, and Inspiration
2. Chapter 3.14: Before You Move to the Next Chapter
3. Chapter 4 Introduction
4. Chapter 4.1: Propaganda, Persuasion, Politics, Power
5. Chapter 4.2: Imagery of War
Chapter 4.3: Exterior Ritual Spaces
Chapter 4.4: The Sacred Interior
Chapter 4.5: Masks and Ritual Behavior
Chapter 4.6: Funerary Spaces
Chapter 4.7: Before You Move to the Next Module
Chapter 5 Introduction
Chapter 5.1: Elements of Principles of Design: A Review
Chapter 5.2: Formal or Critical Analysis
Chapter 5.3: Art Criticism: Additional Perpectives
Chapter 5.4: Additional Considerations: Socio-Cultural Contexts
Chapter 5.5: Additional Considerations: Symbolism and Iconography
Chapter 5.6: Before You Move to the Next Chapter
Chapter 6 (and 7) Introduction
Chapter 6.1: Drawing
Chapter 6.2: Painting
Chapter 6.3: Sculpture
Chapter 6.4: Printmaking
Chapter 6.5: Architecture
Chapter 6.6: Ceramics
Chapter 7.1: Digital Art
Chapter 7.2: Photography
Chapter 7.3: Film and Video
Chapter 7.4: Alternative Media
Chapter 7.5: Tradition of Craft
Chapter 7.6: Fashion as Art
Chapter 7.7: Public Art
Chapter 8 Introduction
Chapter 8.1: Prehistoric Art (ca. 3000 B.C.E.)
Chapter 8.2: Introduction to Ancient and Classical Art
Chapter 8.3: Egypt
Chapter 8.4: Ancient Greece
Chapter 8.5: Etruscans
Chapter 8.6: Ancient Rome
Chapter 9.1: Understanding Early Christian Symbolism in Art and Cultural Appropriation
Chapter 9.2: Byzantine Empire in 650 C.E.
Chapter 9.3: Barbarian Art and Gothic Style
Chapter 9.4: Towards the End of the Middle Ages
Chapters 10 and 11 Introduction
Chapter 10.1: The Renaissance - An Overview
Chapter 10.2: The Italian Renaissance: The Quattrocento - Renaissance in the 1400s
Chapter 10.3: The Italian Renaissance: Cinquecento - The High Renaissance
Chapter 10.4: The Renaissance in Northern Europe
Chapter 10.5: The End of the Renaissance
Chapter 10.6: Mannerism
Chapter 10.7: The Baroque Period: Overview
Chapter 10.8: Baroque Painting
Chapter 10.9: Baroque Sculpture
Chapter 10.10: Baroque Architecture
Chapter 10.11: Rococo and Neoclassicism: Overview
Chapter 10.12: Rococo Painting and Sculpture
Chapter 10.13: Rococo Architecture
Chapter 10.14: The Enlightenment and Neoclassical Art
Chapter 11.1: Age of Revolutions
Chapter 11.2: Neoclassicism, 1750-1820
Chapter 11.3: Modern Art, 1850-1960
Chapter 11.4: Romanticism, 1800-1850
Chapter 11.5: Realism, 1845-1900
Chapter 11.6: Impressionism and Japonism
Chapter 11.7: Post Impressionism
Chapter 11.8: Modern Art: 1900s Until Now
Chapter 11.9: Postmodern Art
Chapter 11.10: The Harlem Renaissance
Chapter 11.11: Postmodern Art, 1960-Present
Chapter 11.12: Art of Photography
Chapter 11.13: Digital Art, Film, and Video
Chapter 11.14: Art in the 21st Century
Chapter 11.15: Global Contemporary Art: 1980-Present
Chapter 12 Introduction
Chapter 12.1: Native North America
Chapter 12.2: Mesoamerica
Chapter 12.3: Latin America
Chapter 12.4: People and Cultures
Chapter 12.5: Visual Expression
Chapter 12.6: Art and History
Chapter 12.7: South Asia
Chapter 12.8: Western and Central Asia
Chapter 12.9: China
Chapter 12.10: Japan
Chapter 12.11: Islamic Art
Chapter 12.12: Islamic Art: Early Period (c. 640 - 900 C.E.)
Chapter 12.13: Islamic Art: Medieval Period (c. 900 - 1517 C.E.)
Chapter 12.14: Introduction to Oceania
Chapter 12.15: Australia
Chapter 12.16: Polynesia
12.17: Melanesia
Chapter 13 Introduction
Chapter 13.1: Where Do We Fit In?
Chapter 13.2: What is Cultural Heritage?
Chapter 13.3: Understanding the Art Museum
Chapter 13.4: How Museums Shape Meaning
Chapter 13.5: Issues of Restoration and Conservation
Chapter 13.6: Censorship
Chapter 13.7: Funding for the Arts
Chapter 13.8: The Artist: My Hero
Appendix
Please take some time to view these videos for an introduction to the Module 3 content on art analysis.
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