So as part of the undergraduate requirements here in the Adelphi University Honors college, all freshman must take an honors course in either Western Civilization, or Art and the World.
Of course I was not about to enroll myself in a boring old history class such as Western Civ when the art history course was just begging for me to take it.
Let me tell you, it was a good choice. Everyone I know taking Western Civ has paper after paper to write, along with hundreds of pages of reading every week, in addition to being bored to death.
What do we do in Art and the World? We read 40 "pages" a week in our text books for homework (with giant pictures taking up at least 1/3 of the reading), and in class a slide picturing a piece of art is presented and we discuss it!
It is amazing!
This is probably my favorite piece of art so far!
The Bull Headed Lyre with Inlaid Sound Box
Because look at the animals doing human-like things. Which, by the way, no art historian truly understands.
I mean! Look how cute these guys are!!!!!!!!!! They are the first cartoon characters EVER! And their expressions are priceless. We're talking about 2600 BC here, Sumerian culture, which rarely depicted its people with such emotion!
So pretty much Tuesdays and Thursday from 12:15 until 1:30, I'm a very happy gal.
3 comments:
History hates you too.
Kellie, you love History enough for the both of us. <3
Ah, the reason I became an Art History major--the giant glossy photos of fabulous works of art reducing the reading load by 1/3. You can imagine my despair when I got my law school texts: WHAT? NO PICTURES?
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