Art History Research Paper
Renaissance through Modern Art AH 106-01
Monty Helm
Spring 07,OCTC

Description: Select a topic from the list below. Your paper should range five to six pages, double-spaced; include a bibliography and cite your sources throughout the paper. The information covered will generally discuss what the topic is, how it was developed, and why it is significant in art history. For specific criteria, see the list below.

The Regionalist (American Art of Middle America in the 1900's)
German Expressionist
Matisse and the Fauves
Futurism
DaDa
Hudson River School
The Eight or The Ashcan School
American Impressionism
Harlem Renaissance
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
Neo Realism in Sculpture and Painting
Guerrilla Girls - Feminist Art
Bauhaus
Armory Show of 1913 in New York
Social Realism of Mexico
Weimar Years (German Cinema 1920's)
Barbizon School
Early Impressionists Group
The Post Impressionists
Neo Classicism
Netherlandish Art of the Northern Renaissance
Michelangelo's Sistene Chapel
Entarte Kunst (Degenerate Art of Nazi Germany)
Chicago School of Architecture
Andy Warhol and the Factory
Cubism - Picasso and Braque
Fauvism - Mattisse
Abstract Expressionism
History of the Sky Scraper
Romanticism

Criteria:
1. Historical information. Specific time period, locality, social/economic background...
2. Leading artists.
3. Imagery (subject matter).
4. Iconography if relative.
5. Media
6. Patrons.
7. Major influences.
8. Masterwork/s and significant works.
9. Innovations and contributions
10. Historical Significance

Course Value: 20%
Grading: 5% Outline Content as stated above 85% and bibliography 10%,

The following works are helpful in researching art and artists:
1. Encyclopedia of World Art. NY: McGraw-Hill, 1959-. (multi-volume set in reference at the Daviess County Public Library and in reference at Brescia University Library.
2. Janson, H.W., History of Art. NY: Harry Abrams, Current.

IMPORTANT: Your work must include a bibliography as well as citations throughout your paper. Specifically this means: At the end of a sentence or paragraph, a notation (citation) must be placed indicating what source (book) and what page/s the information was taken from. Papers without citations will not be excepted. Papers not properly cited will be marked down up to 40 points.

Writing a research papers: Research papers are a major means of communicating knowledge, ideas, and critical analysis. In writing papers, take notes on your subject as you read and use an outline to organize your ideas and research. This approach will allow you to present your subject in your own fashion, communicating through your own words. Papers in which information is continually taken directly from another individual's authorship without metamorphosis of idea will be graded accordingly.

A useful link for citations and bibliography is from William College Library.