Living with Art chapters listed are from the 9th edition. You may use any Mark Getlein or any Rita Gilbert edition of the book. If you use an edition other than the 9th, see me to adjust the chapter numbers to fit our schedule.
Week 1 - Tue 16 Aug
CLASS: Introduction - syllabus, textbooks, adds
READING: none
Week 2 - Tue 23 Aug
CLASS: Art in the Context of our time / discussion groups
READING: none
Week 3 - Tue 30 Aug
CLASS: 3 Million Years of Art History in 120 minutes.
READING: Living With Art - Chapter 1 - Living with Art
Week 4 - Tue 6 Sep
CLASS: Vision Quest: from the Broken Man at Lascaux to Neo in The Matrix
READING: Living With Art - Chapter 2 - What is Art?
Week 5 - Tue 13 Sep
CLASS: Video Blogging
READING: Living With Art - Chapter 3 - Themes of Art
Week 6 - Tue 20 Sep
CLASS: Performance Art
READING: Living With Art - Chapter 4 - The Visual Elements
Week 7 - Tue 27 Sep
CLASS: Documentary Film: Bomb It
READING: Living With Art - Chapter 11 - Sculpture & Installation
Week 8 - Tue 4 Oct
CLASS: "Finding Art" / Curating
READING: Living With Art - Chapter 12 - Arts of Ritual & Daily Life
Week 9 - Tue 11 Oct
CLASS: Drawing
READING: Living With Art - Chapter 13 - Architecture
Week 10 - Tue 18 Oct
CLASS: Identity Art (Avatar)
READING: Living With Art - Chapter 23 - Opening Up to the World
PRESENTATIONS:
• Ilene Verile / Helen Hardin
• Juhe Lee / Camille Pissaro
• Mina Abd Al Malak / Ramses II
Week 11 - Tue 25 Oct
CLASS: Visual Culture / Visual Literacy
READING: Living With Art - Chapter 22 - From Modern to Postmodern
PRESENTATIONS:
• Bobby Del Rosario / Michelangelo
• Henry Fuentes / Leonardo da Vinci
• Brant Odil / Albert Bierstadt
Week 12 - Tue 1 Nov
CLASS: Documentary Film: Terminal 5
READING: Living With Art - Chapter 21 - The Modern World: 1800 - 1945
PRESENTATIONS:
• John Ozmint / Leeroy Neiman
• Chelsea Carillo / Goya
• Jeffrey Swanson / Healy Robinson
• Chas Liss / Sandy Skoglund
Week 13 - Tue 8 Nov
CLASS: Aesthetics & Beauty / Painting then & Now
READING: Living With Art - Chapter 20 - Art of the Pacific & the Americas
PRESENTATIONS:
• Kim Fuertes / Keith Haring
• Julie Son / Magritte
• ?? / ??
• Brian Tak / Louis Jacques Maride
Week 14 - Tue 15 Nov
CLASS: Images that Think
READING: Living With Art - Chapter 19 - Art of East Asia: India, China & Japan
PRESENTATIONS:
• Suzan Kim / Picasso
• Andrew Chantha / Matisse
• Nichole Eddleman / Petah Coyne
• H.M. / Rudi Ikeda
Week 15 - Tue 22 Nov
CLASS: New Media / Virtual Worlds
READING: Living With Art - Chapter 18 - Arts of Islam & of Africa
PRESENTATIONS:
• Courtney Rorie / ??
• David Del Rosario / ??
• Andy Nam / Kathe Kollwitz
• Mona Abd El Ghanee / Leonardo da Vinci
Week 16 - Tue 29 Nov
CLASS: Representation & Abstraction
READING: Living With Art - Chapter 16 - The Renaissance
PRESENTATIONS:
• Amy Castrejon / van Gogh
• Keno Thourakhome / Jacob Lawrence
• Rachel Woelfel / ??
• Claudio Trujillo / Andy Warhol
Week 17 - Tue 6 Dec
CLASS: Gestalt
READING: Living With Art - Chapter 14 - Ancient Mediterranean Worlds
PRESENTATIONS:
• Nancy Olmos / Maria Martinez
• Lani Torres / Dali
• Julie Pak / ??
• Miranda McKenna / Frida Kahlo
Final - Tue 13 Dec
CLASS: Final
READING: none
Rubric for Presentations:
