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Continuity of Instruction During a Catastrophic Event:
Important Updates [none]

Courses ::

ART 2325

Asian Art
syllabus & paper guide

Survey of Western Art I: Prehistoric–Medieval
syllabus & paper guide

Arts of Africa
syllabus & paper guide

Ancient South America
syllabus & paper guide
readings
electronic handouts:
Pereira, "Testimony in Stone: Rock Art in the Amazon," in McEwan et al
Morales, "Indigenous Responses to Rock Art"
Morales, "Living Arts"
Morales, "The Angelim Style"
Rowe & Steelman, "Radiocarbon dating"
Rowe & Steelman, "Comment on 'some evidence'"
Watanabe et al., "Some evidence"

Ancient Mesoamerica
syllabus & paper guide

Senior Seminar
syllabus, readings & paper guide

Advising ::

Please email me to arrange advising appointments. Bring a copy of the following checksheets with your progress indicated:

_General Education requirements
_B.A. in Art, Art History emphasis requirements

Art 4302 Directed Study Proposals:
Directed Study proposals are due TBA, by 4:00 pm to the Art Office, McAlister 101. Notice: Proposals must be signed by your faculty mentor or they will not be considered.

_Art 4302 Directed Study Guidelines [in progress]
_Other Department Deadlines

Downloads ::

_Art History Style Guide

_Scholarly Sources (courtesy Claude Bélanger)

_Special Characters Guide (ñ, ±, á, ¾, etc)

_Irene Winter on Style (an excerpt of an excellent formal analysis!):

Irene Winter, "The Affective Properties of Styles: An Inquiry into Analytical Process and the Inscription of Meaning in Art History," in Picturing Science Producing Art, ed. Caroline A. Jones and Peter Galison (New York: Routledge, 1998), 55-73. [brief excerpt]

_Terence Grieder on Style:

Terence Grieder, Artist and Audience, 2nd ed. (Madison, WI: Brown & Benchmark, 1996), 140. [brief excerpt]

_Greg Urban on Style:

"Style means a form of language use characterizable independently of the content or semantic meaning that is communicated, which constitutes a sign vehicle that contrasts with others in a culture" (Greg Urban, A Discourse Centered Approach to Culture: Native South American Myths and Rituals [Austin: University of Texas Press, 1991], 106).

_Other Readings on Style:
_(see the library for these)

Heinrich Wölfflin, Principles of Art History: The Problem of the Development of Style in Later Art, trans. Marie Donald Mackie Hottinger (1932; New York: Dover, 1950).

Meyer Shapiro, "Style," in Anthropology Today: An Encyclopedic Inventory, ed. A. L. Kroeber (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1953).

Berel Lang, ed., The Concept of Style, revised and expanded (1979; Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1987).

Polly Schaafsma, "Form, Content and Function: Theory and Method in North American Rock Art Studies," in Advances of Archaeological Method and Theory, ed. by M. Schiffer, vol. 8, pp. 237-277 (New York: Academic Press, 1985).

Margaret W. Conkey and Christine Hastorf, eds. The Uses of Style in Archaeology. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990).

Libraries ::

_UCA Torreyson Library (http://library.uca.edu/)
_University of Arkansas Little Rock, Ottenheimer Library (http://library.ualr.edu/)
_Hendrix College, Olin C. Bailey Library (http://www.hendrix.edu/baileylibrary/)
_Central Arkansas Library System (http://www.cals.lib.ar.us/)

Databases ::

_FirstSearch — Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) (http://fscat.oclc.org/)
____This is the best resource for finding books, articles, and much more
____Username & password distributed in class

_Rock Art Studies: A Bibliographic Database (http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/collections/rockart.html)
____Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley — Search the Database

_BookFinder.com (http://www.bookfinder.com/)
____Search over 100,000 booksellers for new, used, and out of print books.

ListServs ::

_ROCK-ART Discussion and Information (http://lists.asu.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=rock-art&A=1)
____Search the Archives

_AZTLAN A PreColumbian Discussion List (http://www.famsi.org/mailman/listinfo/aztlan)
____Search the Archives

Reinaldo Morales Jr, PhD
Assistant Professor of Art History

Department of Art, University of Central Arkansas
201 Donaghey Avenue, McAlister 101, Conway, Arkansas 72035

Office: McAlister 116
Fall 2011 hours: M12-3, T10-10:45 & 4:30-5, W1-3; Th10-10:45
Phone number: (501) 450-5779; email (the best): rmorales at uca.edu

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