AP Art History Summer Assignments - St. Cecilia Academy
AP Art History Summer Assignments - St. Cecilia Academy
AP Art History Summer Assignments - St. Cecilia Academy
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To prevent you from writing essays that simply describe a work of art, I’ll be<br />
encouraging you to focus on five areas in your writings and in class discussion:<br />
• subject matter<br />
• function<br />
• artistic decision making<br />
• contextual analysis<br />
• cultural impact<br />
Contemplating these five factors will help you to see art as a meaningful part of your life.<br />
(Looking at these five areas won’t just apply to masterpieces but also to images and<br />
objects found in our everyday world that we consider to be art).<br />
The Texts:<br />
-You will need to purchase the following texts which will all be used in your summer<br />
reading.<br />
Gardner's <strong>Art</strong> Through the Ages: A Global <strong>History</strong>, By Helen Gardner, Fred S.<br />
Kleiner, Christin J Mamiya - Cengage Learning (2008) - Hardback - 1104 pages - ISBN<br />
0495093076<br />
Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented<br />
Architecture, By Ross King - Penguin Books (2001) - Paperback - 194 pages - ISBN<br />
0142000159
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