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1. Syllabus Art Appreciation HU115
2. Introduction
3. Why It Matters
4. Form and Content
5. Reading: Formalism and Content
6. Video: Introducing Formal Analysis: Landscape
7. Elements of Design
8. Reading: Artistic Elements
9. Videos: Elements of Art
10. Principles of Design
11. Reading: Artistic Principles
12. Types of Representation
13. Reading: Representational, Abstract, and Nonrepresentational Art
14. Putting It Together
15. Why It Matters
16. Art as a kind of communication and expression of culture
17. Reading: Defining Art from the Medieval Period to Renaissance
18. Reading: Defining Art from the Academy to Avant-Garde
19. Reading: Defining Art from Modernity to Globalization
20. Purposes of Art
21. Reading: Purpose of Art
22. Aesthetics
23. Reading: Art, Aesthetics, and Beauty
24. Perception and Value
25. Reading: Value Judgment
26. The Ongoing Definition of Art
27. Reading: Defining Art
28. Putting It Together
29. Why It Matters
30. Video: Art and Context
31. Perspective
32. Reading: Perspective
33. Subjective vs. Objective Analysis
34. Reading: How We See: Objective and Subjective Means
35. Context
36. Reading: Context
37. Critical Modalities
38. Reading: Critical Modalities
39. Cultural and World Perspective
40. Reading: Crossing Cultures, the artwork of Kehinde Wiley
41. Symbolism
42. Reading: Analyzing Symbols
43. Reading: Iconographic Analysis
44. Putting It Together
45. Why It Matters
46. Key Characteristics of Art: Prehistory
47. Reading: Prehistoric Art: Paleolithic Origins
48. Reading: The Neolithic Revolution
49. Reading: Ancient Near East
50. Reading: Ancient Egypt
51. Reading: Ancient Greece and Rome
52. Key Characteristics of Art: Age of Faith
53. Reading: The Medieval and Byzantine Eras
54. Reading: Early Christian Art
55. Reading: Church Architecture
56. Reading: Arts of the Islamic World: the Early Period
57. Reading: Introduction to Mosque Architecture
58. Reading: Romanesque
59. Reading: Gothic Architecture
60. Reading: Neo-Confucianism and Fan Kuan’s Travelers by Streams and Mountains
61. Reading: Shiva As Lord of the Dance (Nataraja)
62. Reading: Classic Maya Portrait Stelae
63. Key Characteristics of Art: Renaissance through Baroque
64. Reading: Florence in the Trecento (1300s)
65. Reading: Florence in the Early Renaissance
66. Video: Linear Perspective: Brunelleschi's Experiement
67. Video: How One-Point Linear Perspective Works
68. Video: Rogier van der Weyden, Deposition, c. 1435
69. Reading: Toward the High Renaissance
70. Reading: 1500–1600 End of the Renaissance and the Reformation
71. Reading: The Baroque: Art, Politics, and Religion in Seventeenth-Century Europe
72. Key Characteristics of Art: Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
73. Reading: Fragonard's The Swing
74. Reading: 1700–1800 Age of Enlightenment
75. Reading: Neo-Classicism
76. Readin