Introduction to History of Art I

At the end of the course, students should be able to: 1. understand the history of art as the foundation of other art histories; 2. sketch a relationship among global art histories; 3. understand how art and history define the discipline; 4. appropriate art history as a resource for understanding form in practice; 5. narrate art history from its early beginnings in the caves and rock surfaces; 6. understand art in Egypt at 3000 BC as the model of Greek art; 7. successive developments from Greece Roman art to medieval art in 1300 AD.; and 8. Organise a scrapbook of relevant images and notes on regimes and styles in art history.

An introduction to the conventions of the history of art along with a survey of the significant genres and artists from earliest known artistic engagements in rock art traditions, especially in the Kalahari and Sahara Deserts the Altamira and other European traditions, the art of Egypt, Greece, Rome to the Gothic traditions, and other ancient and medieval traditions of the world focusing on the transitions and formal regimes and styles that the artworks privilege.