Courses
AHST 2331-001 (21414)
Understanding Art
Dr. Charissa N. Terranova
Spring 2018
Tuesdays and Thursdays 11:30-12:45
ATC 1.102
Office Hours: Tuesday 2:30-3:30
and by appointment
Office Location: ATC 2.704
Contact: terranova@utdallas.edu
Teaching Assistants:
Linda Anderson: lka160130@utdallas.edu
Francesca Brunetti: fxb140730@utdallas.edu
Daniel Christmann: dwc170030@utdallas.edu
Elham Christine Khiabani: eck130030@utdallas.edu
PowerPoint Presentations:
1.) Tuesday 01/09/18 Introduction, Techne, and Prehistoric Cave Drawings
2.) Thursday 01/11/18 Screening of Film, Werner Herzog's Cave of Forgotten Dreams
3.) Tuesday 01/16/18 Quiz #1 and Discussion
4.) Thursday 01/18/18 Roman Urbanism, Architecture, and Infrastructure
5.) Tuesday 01/23/18 Roman Interiors and Paintings
6.) Thursday 01/25/18 Quiz #2 and Discussion
7.) Tuesday 01/30/18 Immersion Across Time: VR in the Middle Ages (cont'd) + Hagia Sophia
8.) Thursday 02/01/18 Quiz #3 and Discussion
9.) Tuesday 02/06/18 Mosque of Cordoba: Spolia and Repetition of Forms
10.) Thursday 02/08/18 Quiz #4 and Discussion
11.) Tuesday 02/13/18 Screening of Film, Cathedral, narrated by David Macaulay
12.) Thursday 02/15/18 Quiz #5 and Discussion
13.) Tuesday 02/20/18 Optics, Lenses, and Prosthetic Vision
14.) Tuesday 03/06/18 Painting with Grids: The Dutch Golden Age
15.) Thursday 03/08/18 Quiz #7 and Discussion
16.) Tuesday 03/20/18 Rolling Through the Landscape and Spatial Surrounds: Trains and Panoramas
17.) Thursday 03/22/18 Panorama: Quiz #8 and Discussion of Virtual Reality as Propaganda
18.) Tuesday 03/27/18 Mobile Prosthetics: Automobiles and Highways
19.) Thursday 03/29/18 Quiz #9 and Discussion of Mobile Prosthetics
20.) Tuesday 04/03/18 Virtual Realities in Painting, Photography, and Film
21.) Thursday 04/05/18 Virtual Realities in Painting, Photography, and Film (continued)
22.) Tuesday 04/10/18 Screening of Film, Dziga Vertov's The Man with a Movie Camera
23.) Thursday 04/12/18 Virtual Realities Constructed, Edited, and Made: Film and Montage
25.) Thursday 04/19/18 Discussion of The Digital Image in Art -- The Backdrop of Virtual Reality