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Readings for ARTC/GES150
Introduction: Art, an Encounter
Chapter 1: Art under Ancient Suns
1.2 Parietal Art
1.3 Art of the Nile
1.4 Art of Hindu Devotion
1.5 Formline Style
Chapter 2: the Art of Narrative
2.2 Sumerian Cuneiform: Accounting and Literature
2.3 Myth and the Spiritual
2.4 Epic Form
2.5 The Journey of the Israelites
2.6 Wisdom Literature
Module 2: Art of the Text
Chapter 3: for the Love of Heroes
3.2 The One Story: a Hero's Journey
3.3 David: a Hero's Journey
3.4 Songs of Love
Chapter 4: Young and Broken Hearts
4.2 Passion's Victims
4.3 True Love's Broken Hearts
4.4 Songs of Broken Hearts
4.5: Young Love's Illusions
Module 3: The Classical
Chapter 5: Classics and Classicism
5.2 Asian Classical Traditions
5.3 The "Classics"
5.4 Classical Rome
5.6 The Art of the Church
Chapter 6 Scribal Classics
6.2 Homer's Epic World
6.3 The Unthinkable Tragedy of Oedipus
6.4 The Fantastical Comedy of Lysistrata
6.5 Virgil's Latin Epic
Module 4: Rebirth and Innovation
Chapter 7 Rebirth of the Classical
7.2 The Rinascita
7.3 Emerging Humanism
7.4 The Emergence of Space
7.5 Botticelli's Dual Vision
7.6 Northern Oil and Light
7.7 The High Renaissance
7.8 The Baroque
7.9 The Renaissance Model
Chapter 8 The Renaissance in Letters
8.2 The Vernacular Renaissance
8.3 The Renaissance in England
8.4 The English Sonnet
8.5 Metaphysical Figures
8.6 The Sonnet--5 Centuries and Counting
Module 5: 19th Century Churn
Chapter 9 Rules and Reactions
9.2 a Dream of Classical Peace
9.3 The Romantic Rebellion
9.4 Opening to the Sublime
9.5 American Romanticism
9.6 American Sublime
Chapter 10: Art of the "Real"
10.2 Real Countryside
10.3 Realism on Canvas
10.4 Maupassant: Irony and society
10.5 The Receding Tide of faith
Module 6: Resetting the Paradigm
Chapter 11 a Glittering New World
11.1 Drawing with Light: Photography
11.3 Photography and Art
11.4 Impressionism: the Window Reframed
Chapter 12 Projecting Inner Light
12.2 Impressionism's Heirs
12.3 Impression to Expression
12.4 Narrative: Expression and Insurrection
12.5 Narrative and Family Dysfunction
Module 7: Form in the Modern World
Chapter 13. Liberation from the Subject
13.2 Cézanne: the Modernist Patriarch
13.3 Deconstruction in Montmartre
13.4 Modernist Photography
13.5 Word and Image
13.6 The Abstract Image
Chapter 14: Machines, War, and Social Upheaval
14.2 The Roaring Twenties
14.3 Take the A Train
14.4 Academic Harlem
14.5 Scaling that Racial Mountain
14.6 Art and Harlem
14.7 Strange Fruit
14.8 The Great Crash
Module 8: Art and the Spiritual
Chapter 15. The Art of the Spiritual
15.2 Art and Christian Faith
15.3 Neo-Christian Romanticism
15.4 Global Spirituality
15.5 Art and Mortality
Chapter 16. Imagining the Unimaginable
16.2 End of Journey
Appendix: Formal Elements of Art
Arts Glossary
Caspar David Friedrich. (1808). Abbey Amidst Oak Trees.
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