ART 101: Additional Readings
ART 101: Additional Readings
Here are additional readings for Art 101: A Global Adventure. Please click on the link and enjoy at your leisure.
Lecture 1: Late Roman Art
- The Pillar of the Nautae Parisiaci: Paris’ First Public Monument
- Gods, Temples and Ritual Practices: The Transformation of Religious Ideas and Values in Roman Gaul
- Imagined Empire: Representing Imperial Communities in Roman Dougga Civic Representation: A Portrait from the Temple of Saturn in Dougga
Lecture 2: Byzantine Art c. 300-800
- Byzantium (ca. 330–1453)Icons and Iconoclasm in Byzantium
- The Byzantine State under Justinian I (Justinian the Great)
- “Archaeologists Call on Unesco to Protect the Hagia Sophia” (Smithsonian magazine)
Super Saturday: “Jewish Art and Architecture in early Roman Jerusalem”
Lecture 5: Chinese art of the early medieval period
- Dan Levin, “A Desert Blooms Along China’s Silk Road,” The New York Times, Oct. 13, 2010.
- “Who are the Uyghurs and why is China being accused of genocide?” BBC News, May 24, 2022.
Lecture 6: “Temple and Icon: The Emergence of Hindu and Buddhist Imagery in South Asia, 100 BCE–800 CE”
- A brief history of the art of South Asia: Prehistory–c. 500 C.E.
- An overview of Indian art
- Development of the Buddha image
- Roots of Hinduism
- Principal deities of Hinduism
- “1,800-Year-Old Buddhist Stupa and Relics Unearthed in Pakistan,” BuddhistDoor Global, Feb. 7, 2022.
- “New concerns for the Bamiyan Valley’s future in Taliban hands surface on anniversary of monumental Buddhas’ destruction,” The Art Newspaper, March 11, 2022.
- “An Ancient Shrine That Could Contain Buddha’s Skull Has Been Found in China,” Science Alert, July 2016
Lecture 7: Mayan Art
- Unearthing a Maya Civilization That ‘Punched Above Its Weight’
- “The Food of the Gods: Cacao Use Among the Pre-Hispanic Maya” (August 1, 2014)
- “The Maya Codices” (Oct. 11, 2018)
- “A Maya Game of Thrones and Artistic Innovation in Golden Kingdoms” (April 6, 2018) by James Doyle.
- “The Murals of San Bartolo: A Window into the Art and Cosmovision of Precolumbian Man.” Urquizú, Mónica and Heather Hurst.
- “The Murals of Chiik Nahb Structure Sub1-4, Calakmul, Mexico” (2012) Vargas, Ramón Carrasco and María Cordeiro Baqueiro.
- Maya area, 1-500 AD
- Maya area, 500-1000 AD
