Art History Journal

You will be required to keep a journal for this class and to write in it daily. Every so often I will collect your journal to make comments on its content. Furthermore, I will be giving you small writing assignments for you to enter into this journal over the semester.

We will discuss this more in class. Part of your grade will be based on your ability to keep this journal, and to record your thoughts, and observations related to artworks presented in class, on field trips, as well, your reading.

List of Field Trips and Guest Speakers

Field Trips:
Cantor Museum at Stanford University - Rodin Sculpture, Frank Lobdell Figure Drawings and Chinese Brush Painting Exhibition
Tracing the Past, Drawing the Future: Master Ink Painters in 20th-Century China)
http://museum.stanford.edu/news_room/Exhibition_Schedule.html
San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose - Wayne Thiebaud Exhibition
Grace Cathedral, San Francisco - Lorenzo Ghiberti, copy of east doors ("Gates of Paradise") of the Florence Cathedral

Guest Artists:
Bing Zhang, Talking about her Resent Paintings


Richard Polsky, "I Sold Andy Warhol. (too soon)"
http://www.polskyart.com/welcome.html

Required Text Book for Class

Fred S. Kleiner Gardner's Art through the Ages : Global History, Enhanced Edition, Volume II (with ArtStudy Online and Timeline) 13th Edition ©2011 ISBN: 1439085811 ISBN13: 9781439085813 "The most widely read history of art in the English language for more than 80 years, GARDNER has built its stellar reputation on the inclusion of the most significant images and monuments, discussions of these images in their full historical and cultural context, reproductions of unsurpassed quality, scholarship that is up-to-date and deep, and more help for students and instructors than any other survey text. The 13th Edition adds to this heritage with new images and new full-color reconstructions, as well as a unique "scale" feature that helps students visualize the size of each work." I Sold Andy Warhol (Too Soon) by Richard Polsky ISBN-13: 9781590513378 Pub. Date: 09/15/2009 http://www.polskyart.com/welcome.html

Cesar E. Chavez Library

http://www.sjcc.edu/library/


Computers and Class Resource Materials Available for Students.

Moodle at SJCC

https://moodle.sjeccd.org

Check back soon for information about the use of moodle for SJCC Art-092

What is Humanism -- Renaissance Humanism

http://atheism.about.com/od/abouthumanism/a/renaissance.htm

http://www.historyguide.org/intellect/lecture4a.html#humanism

GRACE CATHEDRAL - SAN FRANCISCO

http://www.gracecathedral.org/