AMICO Library Sample Assignments
AMICO has contracted with Peter Walsh to prepare a series of model assignments that draw on The AMICO Library and could be used by Professors and Teaching Assistants at subscribing AMICO Colleges and Universities. These are based on a review of the courses offered at those schools, and developed with an eye to identifying works from the collections of AMICO Members that would strengthen The AMICO Library if they were contributed.
Please post comments on this project to the Users Committee Discussion.
AMICO Model Assignments
New media, including The AMICO Library™, promises to make new ways to study and teach art history possible. The AMICO Library is a resource that goes beyond what has been available in the past with slide libraries and illustrated books. The AMICO Model Assignments have been designed to illustrate some of these new pathways to teaching and study. None of the assignments themselves are especially complicated technologically. Instead, they are designed to show how the technology of The AMICO Library can be used to develop new insights and teaching approaches to art and art history.
Range of Assignment Types
A few assignments require students to do original research on museum art objects of the highest quality and significance that they have not been exposed to in class, something facilitated by The AMICO Library. Other exercises expand on such traditional art history assignments as identification and compare and contrast. Some assignments were prepared for individual students to use on their own outside of regular lectures and classroom assignments
Flexible Content Structures
All of the exercises are designed to be flexible and adaptable to different situations and contexts. Some, for example, may be used with examples supplied from The AMICO Library, with other examples chosen by the instructor, or with images researched by the students. Others could be used by individual students, groups of students, or by the instructor in a class discussion.
Model Assignments
For Review Public Western Art History (Assignments in other periods to come) Prehistoric Art Coming Soon Egyptian Art Coming Soon Ancient Near Eastern Art Coming Soon Aegean Art Coming Soon Greek Art Exercise in Classical Greek Art and Its Legacies I Essay Exercise in Ancient Greek Art Essay Exercise in Classical Greek Art Sculpture Essay Exercise in Greek Vase Painting Essay Case Study in Classical Art and Archaeology Essay Etruscan Art Coming Soon Roman Art Coming Soon Early Christian and Byzantine Art Coming Soon Early Medieval Art Coming Soon Romanesque Art Coming Soon Gothic Art Coming Soon Early Renaissance Art in Italy Coming Soon High Renaissance Art in Italy Coming Soon Mannerism and Late Renaissance Art Coming Soon Late Gothic Art Coming Soon Renaissance Art in Northern Europe Coming Soon The Baroque in Italy and Spain The AMICO Portfolio of Baroque Art of Italy and Spain Exercise in Baroque Art and Architecture in Rome: A Letter Home Writing The Baroque in Flanders and Holland Coming Soon The Baroque in France and England Coming Soon Rococo Art Coming Soon 19th-Century Art: Neoclassicism to Romanticism Coming Soon 19th-Century Art: Realism to Impressionism Coming Soon 19th-Century Art: Post-Impressionism and Symbolism Coming Soon 20th-Century Art Coming Soon Modern and 20th-Century Art and Design 1880-1945 Review Set for Modern Art, 1880-1945 (10 Exercises) Multiple Choice 20th-Century Art and Design 1945-2000 Coming Soon Contemporary Art Coming Soon Monographic Studies Coming Soon Individual Media Studies Case Study Exercise in Old Master Prints
(Instructor's Guide)Research Exercise in American Decorative Arts Comparison National and Regional Schools Group Curatorial Exercise for American Art, 1600-2000 Western Art Survey Coming Soon World Art Survey/Art Appreciation Case Study Exercise in Artistic Theme Curatorial Art of Other Cultures East Asian Art Coming Soon South Asian Art Coming Soon Art of Islamic Cultures Coming Soon Art of Buddhist Cultures Coming Soon Oceanic Art Coming Soon Art of Sub-Saharan Cultures in Africa Coming Soon Art of South American Cultures before 1500 Coming Soon Art of North American Cultures before 1600 Coming Soon Other Areas of Study Gender Studies Coming Soon Multicultural Studies Coming Soon Critical Studies Coming Soon Studio Art Exercise in Computer-Aided Design I Studio Execise in Studio Art Studio Exercise in Graphic Design Studio Art Therapy Coming Soon Printing Management & Sciences Color in Art and Its Reproduction (PDF)
Contributed by Robert Chung, Rochester Institute of Technology
Lab Museum and Curatorial Studies Exercise in Reproduction Rights Research I Research Survey of Courses Offered
AMICO made a study of teaching at subscribing institutions in the fall of 2000 as background to the Model Assignments.
- Survey of AMICO Library Subscribers by type of institution and courses ( .PDF)
- Additional chart relating to the survey (.PDF )
Provide Feedback
All the AMICO assignments have been tested against The AMICO Library to make sure there is sufficient content to complete the exercise. We are expanding this area with additional assignments on a regular basis and would appreciate understanding your needs for more exercises in a particular area or of a particular type. Also, we would like to post assignments from faculty of subscribing schools to make this area as rich and useful as possible. Please email feedback@amico.org if you wish to comment on the existing assignments, suggest future assignments, or contribute something you've created.
Last modified on October 10, 2001
