4A_Presentation_Assignment

History 4A Team Presentation

Art in the Ancient World

Giulio Romano, Apollo Dance with the Muses (1540)

Team Presentation. There will be team presentations on the art and architecture of various civilizations in this course, specifically, Egypt, Minos and Mycenae, Greece, and Rome.

Each learning team will be assembled by the instructor and given a specific civilization to research and present on. Each learning team will be autonomous in assigning individual tasks for the debate. Each team will fill out a “charter” (posted on the class website) that assigns particular tasks to each member of the team (the team manager will send in the charter to the instructor on October 10). These tasks include manager, writers, researchers, and presenters. The presentations should include brief PowerPoint slides or other audio/visual materials intended to help make the team’s point or add pertinent details regarding the civilization in question.

This will require research outside of the textbook, on both the historical background to the art, as well as to the art itself. The team will investigate through primary sources and secondary literature various aspects about the civilizations and instruct the rest of the class in what you have found.

In creating your presentation, you will want to address the following questions: Who created the art? For whom was it made? What medium did artists of this civilization use or favor? (For example, dramas, poetry, frescoes, mosaics or sculpture, or other media.) When was it made? Did the art of this civilization develop or change over time? ? How? Why? Did the art have a “function” in society? What does it say about the society that made it? Can an individual piece of art be used as a microcosm of its culture?

Very useful for this assignment will be the following book on reserve at the De Anza library: Marilyn Stokstad, Art History, 3^rd ed. N5300 .S923 2008

Available in the Reference section of the library is the classic by H.W.Janson, Art History, 6^th ed. N5300 .J3 2001

You can also look up the following on-line introduction to art history in the De Anza College library: Grant Pooke, Art History: The Basics.

You will also want to make use of ARTstor, an art database available through the De Anza library website. (You will need your student ID number to enter.)

The presentations themselves will take place in class on the dates noted below. Each should last approximately 25-30 minutes. Grading for the assignment will be done partly on the quality of the overall team presentation (15 points), and partly through team self-evaluations (5 points), which can be downloaded from the class website, and which are due one week after the presentation itself. No points will be awarded to a student who does not return the team self-evaluation.

If a team member does not participate in the learning team discussions, meetings, preparation and work, that member will not be allowed to participate in the presentation, and will receive zero points for that assignment.

Presentation Schedule

Egyptian Arts: Painting, sculpture, architecture October 25

Aegaean Arts (Minos and Mycenae): Painting, sculpture, jewelry, architecture November 1

Greece I: Sculpture, poetry, pottery November 8

Greece II: Architecture, drama November 15

Rome I: Sculpture, poetry November 21

Rome II: Architecture, painting, mosaics November 29