ART 101: Faculty Resources: Unit 1 Resources

Unit

Due Date

Topics

Assigned Resources

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Unit 1

11:59 p.m.

Introduction: What is Art History?

Ancient Greece

Total minutes of video/audio: 134

Total pages of reading: 23

Why Look at Art? (2 minutes)

How Art can Help you Analyze (5 minutes)

A Brief History of Western Culture (6 pages)

Common Questions about Dates (1 page)

Ancient Greek Art, an Introduction (6 pages)

Mask of Agamemnon (4 minutes)

Lion Gate (6 minutes)
Introduction to Greek Vase Painting (5 pages)
Dipylon Amphora (4 minutes)
Ajax and Achilles Amphora (7 minutes)

Anavysos Kouros (5 minutes)

Peplos Kore (5 minutes)

Kritios Boy (6 minutes)

The Athenian Agora and the Experiment in Democracy (5 minutes)

Doryphoros (5 minutes)

Parthenon (16 minutes)

East Pediment sculpture (5 minutes)

Parthenon Frieze (5 minutes)

Parthenon Metopes (7 minutes)

Temple of Athena Nike (5 pages)

Nike Adjusting Her Sandal (4 minutes)

Grave stele of Hegeso (3 minutes)

Boxer at Rest (4 minutes)