Unit Guide

1st Semester

Introduction: Terminology, Writing about Art, Expectations and Requirements

Reading: A Short Guide to Writing about Art, Barnet

Unit 1: Modernism, Post-Modernism & Contemporary Art

Reading: Introduction and Chapter 36

Unit 2: The Birth of Art, Ancient Near Eastern Art & Egyptian Art

Reading: Chapters 1, 2 & 3

Unit 3: Prehistoric Aegean & Ancient Greek Art

Reading: Chapters 4 & 5

Unit 4: Etruscan and Roman Art

Reading: Chapters 9 &10

Unit 5: Late Antiquity, Byzantine and Islamic Art

Reading: Chapters 11, 12, & 13

Unit 6: Art of the East: India, China, Korea and Japan

Reading: Chapters 6, 7, & 8

Unit 7: Native Arts of the Americas & Africa

Reading: Chapters 14/32, 33, 15/34

Unit 8: Early Medieval, Romanesque & Gothic Art

Reading: Chapters 16, 17, 18, & 19

2nd Semester

Unit 9: Renaissance and Mannerism

            Reading: Chapters 20, 21, 22 & 23

Unit 10: Baroque, Rococo & Neoclassical

            Reading: Chapters 24, 25 & 29

Unit 11: Romanticism to Post-Impressionism

            Reading: Chapters 30 & 31

Unit 12: Asia 1200-1800

            Reading: Chapters 26, 27, 28

Unit 13: Development of Modernism

            Reading: Chapter 35