Summer Reading Assignment for AP Art History

Summer Reading Assignment for AP Art History

Instructor: Hennessey

Directions: Read and fill out Source Forms for 3 Articles to be chosen by the student. Please find articles that deal with 3 of the following topics or periods.

Prehistoric Art

The Ancient Middle East

Mesopotamia-Samarian Art

Egyptian Old or New Kingdom Sculpture/Relief

Egyptian Old or New Kingdom Architecture

Egyptian Old or New Kingdom Painting

Assyrian and Persian Art

Proto-Greek Art-

q  Cycladic

q  Minoan

q  Mycenaean

q  Kamares

Indigenous art of the American Indian

Nikisi figure (Kongo)

Kofun Haniwa figures (Japan)

Shang Dynasty Bronzes

Neolithic Ceramics

Inuit Art

Nok head, Nigeria

Olmec ceramic figurines

Due first class period Fall semester.