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1. Request Access
2. I Need Help
3. Why It Matters
4. Defining Art from the Medieval Period to Today
5. Purposes of Art
6. Aesthetics and Value
7. Representational, Abstract, and Nonrepresentational Art
8. Putting It Together
9. Works Cited
10. Why It Matters
11. Formalism and Content
12. Elements of Art
13. Videos: Elements of Art
14. Design Principles
15. Putting It Together
16. Why It Matters
17. How We See: Objective and Subjective Means
18. Context
19. Perspectives and Criticism
20. Art in the Twenty-First Century
21. Iconography
22. Putting It Together
23. Why It Matters
24. Drawing
25. Painting
26. Printmaking
27. Photography
28. Sculpture and Installation Art
29. Time-Based Media: Film and Video
30. Architecture
31. Digital Technology
32. Putting It Together
33. Why It Matters
34. Paleolithic and Neolithic Art
35. Ancient Near East: Cradle of Civilization
36. Ancient Egyptian Civilization
37. Ancient Greece and Rome
38. The Early Middle Ages
39. Early Islamic Art and Mosque Architecture
40. Romanesque and Gothic Architecture
41. Towards the Renaissance
42. The Early Renaissance
43. Leonardo da Vinci
44. Michelangelo
45. The Reformation and Counter-Reformation
46. The Baroque and Rococo
47. The Age of Enlightenment
48. Neo-Classicism
49. Romanticism
50. Becoming Modern
51. Realism and Early Photography
52. Impressionism and Fauvism
53. Cubism
54. Futurism
55. Dada and Surrealism
56. Art in Nazi Germany
57. Abstract Expressionism
58. Photography in the Early 20th Century
59. Pop Art
60. Conceptual Art
61. Contemporary Art
62. Shiva "Nataraja" (India)
63. Fan Kuan’s Travelers by Streams and Mountains (China)
64. Hokusai’s Under the Wave off Kanagawa (Japan)
65. Nkisi Nkondi (Africa)
66. Maya Portrait Stelae (Mesoamerica)
67. Putting It Together
68. Modern Storytellers: Romare Bearden, Jacob Lawrence, Faith Ringgold
69. African Influences in Modern Art
70. Reading: Writing About Art
71. Reading: Writing Processes
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