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AP Art History (Unit One)

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Apollo 11 Stones

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Great Hall of the Bulls

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Camelid Sacrum in the Shape of a Canine

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Running Horned Woman

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Bushel/Beaker with Ibex Motifs

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Anthropomorphic Stele

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Jade Cong

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Stonehenge

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Ambum Stone

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Tlatilco Female Figurine

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Terracotta Fragments (Lapita Peoples)

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Apollo 11 Stones

Artist/Culture

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Prehistoric African (Namibia)

Paleolithic

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Great Hall of the Bulls

Artist/Culture

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Prehistoric European

Paleolithic

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Camelid Sacrum in the Shape of a Canine,

Artist/Culture

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Prehistoric American (Mexico)

Paleolithic

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Running Horned Woman

Artist/Culture

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Prehistoric African (Algerian)

Paleolithic

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Beaker/Bushel with Ibex Motifs

Artist/Culture

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Prehistoric Middle Eastern (Iran)

Paleolithic

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Anthropomorphic Stele

Artist/Culture

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Prehistoric Middle Eastern

Neolithic

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Jade Cong

Artist/Culture

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Prehistoric Chinese

Neolithic

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Stonehenge

Artist/Culture

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Prehistoric European

Neolithic

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Ambum Stone

Artist/Culture

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Prehistoric Oceania

Formative

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Tlatilco Female Figurine

Artist/Culture

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Prehistoric American (Mexico)

Formative

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Terracotta Fragments

Artist/Culture

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Prehistoric Oceania (Lapita)

Iron Age

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Apollo 11 Stones

Date

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25,500 BCE - 25,300 BCE

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Great Hall of the Bulls

Date

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15,000 BCE - 13,000 BCE

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Camelid Sacrum in the Shape of a Canine

Date

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14,000 BCE - 7,000 BCE

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Running Horned Woman

Date

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6,000 BCE - 4,000 BCE

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Beaker/Bushel with Ibex Motifs

Date

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4,200 BCE - 3,500 BCE

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Anthropomorphic Stele

Date

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4,000 BCE

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Jade Cong

Date

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3,300 BCE - 2,200 BCE

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Stonehenge

Date

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2,500 BCE - 1,600 BCE

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Ambum Stone

Date

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1,500 BCE

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Tlatilco Female Figurine

Date

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1,200 BCE - 900 BCE

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Terracotta Fragments

Date

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1000 BCE

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Apollo 11 Stones

Medium

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Charcoal on Stone

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Great Hall of the Bulls

Medium

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Rock Painting

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Camelid Sacrum in the Shape of a Canine

Medium

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Bone

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Running Horned Woman

Medium

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Pigment on Rock

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Beaker with Ibex Motifs

Medium

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Painted terracotta

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Anthropomorphic Stele

Medium

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Sandstone

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Jade Cong

Medium

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Carved Jade

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Ambum Stone

Medium

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Greywacke

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Tlatilco Female Figurine

Medium

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Ceramic

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Terracotta Fragment

Medium

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Incised terracotta

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Apollo 11 Stones

Location

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Namibia

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Great Hall of the Bulls

Location

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Lascaux, France

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Camelid Sacrum in the Shape of a Canine

Location

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Tequixquiac, Central Mexico

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Running Horned Woman

Location

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Tassili n'Ajjer, Algeria

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Beaker with Ibex Motifs

Location

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Susa, Iran

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Anthropomorphic Stele

Location

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Arabian Peninsula

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Jade Cong

Location

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Liangzhu, China

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Stonehenge

Location

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Wiltshire, UK

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Ambum Stone

Location

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Ambum Valley, Enga Province, Papua New Guinea

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Tlatilco Female Figurine

Location

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Tlatilco, Central Mexico

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Terracotta Fragment

Location

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Solomon Islands, Reef Islands

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Theme of this Unit

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"Cave Conjecture"

  • addresses the site of much Paleolithic art as well as the lack of documentation surrounding this period's artwork
  • much of this chapter is comprised of conjecture

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Anthropomorphic

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having characteristics of the human form, although the form itself is not human

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Bushel

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cylindrical earthenware pot

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Cong

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a tubular object with a circular hole cut into it in the middle like a cross section

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Figurative

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clearly derived from real objects or sources

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Ground/Horizon line

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horizontal line at eye level that determines ground space that figures are rooted upon

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Henge

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A Neolithic monument, characterized by a circular ground plan of stone; commonly used for rituals and marking astronomical events

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Incise

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to cut into a surface with a sharp instrument

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Megalith/Monolith

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a large, single block or piece of stone used in large, stone structures

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Mortise and Tenon

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an architectural joint made from two components (mortise hole and tenon tongue); tenon is inserted into the mortise and is cut to fit the hole exactly; tenon may be glued or otherwise adhered in place

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Naturalism

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attempting to portray objects from everyday life as they are

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Positive

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area of artworks where there is mass and subject

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Negative

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area of artwork that is void of mass

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Post and Lintel

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architecture in which two or more vertical elements (posts) support and are capped by a horizontal element (lintel)

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Profile

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a view of an object or person from the side

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Sculpture-in-the-Round (free-standing sculpture)

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sculpture that can be seen from all sides and is not affixed

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Stele

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upright stone slab, often to mark a grave or site

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Stylized

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a manner of depicting the visible world that privileges a certain look over realism and faithfulness to how things truly appear in nature

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Superimposed Art

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when one painting is painted over another (not necessarily at the same time)

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Terra-cotta

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a hard, ceramic clay used for building or for pottery

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Twisted Perspective/Composite View

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A convention of representation in which part of a figure is shown in profile and another part of the same figure is shown frontally