Chapter 1 - Prehistoric Art

LEARN ABOUT IT:

• 1.1 Explore the variety of styles, techniques, and traditions represented by what remains of prehistoric art and architecture, and probe its technical, formal, and expressive character.
  
• 1.2 Survey the principal themes, subjects, and symbols in prehistoric painting, sculpture, and objects.
  
• 1.3 Investigate how art historians and anthropologists have speculated on the cultural meanings of works for which there is no written record to provide historical context.
  
• 1.4 Grasp the concepts and vocabulary used to describe and characterize prehistoric art and architecture
  

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IMAGES (be able to identify these images by title, date, medium, and culture of origin)

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You should be familiar enough with other images presented in the text and lectures, so as to be able to support explanations of attribution and physical, formal, iconographical, and contextual analysis.

VOCABULARY

• Paleolithic
• Mesolithic
• Neolithic
• Relief sculpture
• Bas (low) relief
• Alto (high) relief
• Sculpture in the round
• Abstraction
• Memory image
• Incising
• Modeling
• Post-and-lintel construction
• Corbelling
• Wattle and Daub
• Monolith
• Megalith (megalithic)
• Dolmen
• Capstone
• Cairn
• Passage grave
• Vault
• Henge
• Mortise and tenon
• Alloy