USAD美国学术十项全能ART艺术课程教学大纲

ART

An Exploration of Early American Art

1. ARTFUNDAMENTALS 20%
   1. Introduction to ArtHistory
      1. Methods and Inquiries of ArtHistory
         1. The Nature of Art HistoricalInquiry
         2. Sources, Documents, and the Work of ArtHistorians
         3. The Development of ArtHistory
      2. Brief Overview of Art in the WesternWorld
         1. AncientCivilizations
         2. Greek and RomanArt
         3. Early Christian and MedievalArt
         4. The Renaissance andBaroque
         5. Rococo, Neoclassicism, andRomanticism
         6. Realism andImpressionism
         7. Post-Impressionism and Other Late Nineteenth-CenturyDevelopments
         8. The Emergence ofModernism
         9. Abstraction
         10. Pop Art, Minimalism, and PhotoRealism
         11. Earthworks, Installations, andPerformance
      3. Brief Overview of Non-WesternArt
         1. AsianArt
         2. African and OceanicArt
         3. Islamic Art
         4. TheAmericas
      4. Elements ofArt
         1. Formal Qualities ofArt
            1. Line
            2. Shape andForm
            3. Perspective
            4. Color
            5. Texture
            6. Composition
         2. Processes andTechniques
            1. Drawing
            2. Printmaking
            3. Painting
            4. Photography
            5. Sculpture
            6. MixedMedia
            7. Performance
            8. Craft and FolkArt
            9. Architecture

II:  COLONIAL PORTRAITURE 22%

1. History of Early American Portraiture
2. SELECTED WORK: JOHN SINGLETON COPLEY, PAUL REVERE,1768
   1. Paul Revere: Patriot, Printer, and Craftsman
   2. John Singleton Copley:Biography
   3. Subject Matter and VisualAnalysis
3. SELECTED WORK: AFTER (?) SCIPIO MOORHEAD,PUBLISHED BY ARCHIBALD BELL,

PORTRAIT OF PHILLIS WHEATLEY, 1773

1. Phillis Wheatley:Biography
2. Subject Matter and VisualAnalysis
3. Scipio Moorhead and the Question of the Image’sAuthorship

1. SELECTED WORK: PRUDENCE PUNDERSON, THE FIRST,SECOND AND LAST SCENE OF

MORTALITY, C. 1776-83

1. Embroidery and Needlework as CreativeExpression
2. Subject Matter and VisualAnalysis
3. ContextualAnalysis

1. SELECTEDWORK: ROBERT EDGE PINE, PATIENCE LOVELL WRIGHT, C. 1782
   1. Patience Wright:Biography
   2. Subject Matter and VisualAnalysis
   3. Wright’s Intelligence Work during the RevolutionaryWar
2. SELECTEDWORK: GILBERT STUART, GEORGE WASHINGTON (LANSDOWNE PORTRAIT), 1796
   1. Gilbert Stuart:Biography
   2. Subject Matter and VisualAnalysis
   3. PresidentialPortraiture

• EARLYHISTORY PAINTING 22%
  1. The Academy and the Development of HistoryPainting
  2. SELECTEDWORK: UNKNOWN, SEGESSER II, C. 1720
     1. History of the Segesserhides
     2. Subject Matter and VisualAnalysis
     3. ContextualAnalysis
  3. SELECTED WORK: BENJAMIN WEST, PENN’S TREATY WITH THE INDIANS,1771-72
     1. Benjamin West:Biography
     2. Subject Matter and VisualAnalysis
     3. Representing Native Americans in Eighteenth-CenturyPainting
  4. SELECTEDWORK: AFTER HENRY PELHAM, ENGRAVED, PRINTED AND SOLD BY PAUL REVERE, THE BOSTON MASSACRE, 1770
     1. Prints and the American Revolution
     2. Subject Matter and VisualAnalysis
     3. The Controversy overAttribution
  5. SELECTED WORK: EMANUEL LEUTZE, WASHINGTON CROSSING THE DELAWARE,1851
     1. Emanuel Leutze:Biography
     2. Subject Matter and VisualAnalysis
     3. An American Icon and ItsInfluence
  6. SELECTED WORK: HARRIET POWERS, PICTORIAL QUILT,1895-98

1. The History of African-American QuiltingTraditions
2. Harriet Powers:Biography
3. Subject Matter and VisualAnalysis
4. NEOCLASSICAL ARTAND ARCHITECTURE 18%
   1. The Rise of Neoclassicism in the UnitedStates
   2. SELECTEDWORK: THOMAS JEFFERSON, MONTICELLO, 1769-1809, CHARLOTTESVILLE, VIRGINIA
      1. Jefferson asArchitect
      2. Subject Matter and VisualAnalysis
      3. ContextualAnalysis
   3. SELECTEDWORK: WILLIAM THORNTON, CHARLES BULFINCH, AND BENJAMIN HENRY LATROBE, UNITED STATES CAPITOL, BEGUN IN 1793, WASHINGTON, C.
      1. DesignCompetition
      2. ConstructionHistory
      3. IconographicAnalysis
   4. SELECTED WORK: HORATIO GREENOUGH, GEORGE WASHINGTON,1840
      1. Horatio Greenough:Biography
      2. Subject Matter and VisualAnalysis
      3. ContextualAnalysis
   5. SELECTED WORK: EDMONIA LEWIS, FOREVER FREE,1867
      1. American Women Sculptors inRome
      2. Edmonia Lewis:Biography
      3. Visual and ContextualAnalysis

1. NATUREAND NATION 18%
   1. Engaging with Nature in EarlyAmerica
   2. SELECTEDWORK: PUEBLO BONITO, CHACO CANYON, NEW MEXICO, 850-1150 CE
      1. Ancestral Pueblo Art andArchitecture
      2. Subject Matter and VisualAnalysis
      3. ContextualAnalysis
   3. SELECTEDWORK: CHARLES WILLSON PEALE, EXHUMATION OF THE MASTODON, C. 1807
      1. Charles Willson Peale: Biography
      2. Subject Matter and VisualAnalysis
      3. ContextualAnalysis
   4. SELECTEDWORK: ROBERT  DUNCANSON, VIEW OF CINCINNATI, OHIO FROM COVINGTON, KENTUCKY, C.1850
      1. Robert S. Duncanson:Biography
      2. Subject Matter and VisualAnalysis
      3. Duncanson and the American LandscapeTradition
   5. SELECTED WORK: GAANAX.ÁDI/RAVEN CREST POLE,REPRODUCTION CARVED IN 1983,

BASED ON A LATE NINETEENTH-CENTURY ORIGINAL, SITKA NATIONAL HISTORIC PARK

1. Totem Poles of Alaska and the PacificNorthwest
2. HistoricalContext
3. Subject Matter and VisualAnalysis