Los Angeles Valley College Historical Context of The Art of Ancient East Discussion

What is historical context and how does it help us analyze art of the Ancient Near East? Your exams will be written assignments that will require you to place stylistic movements within a historical context so this is a good opportunity to have a discussion about this and start you thinking about how to do historical and cultural analysis of art. Here is a link a helpful reading for this discussion section that reviews all areas of analyzing art including historical context: : Introduction to Art Historical Analysis

(Important: All posts should be brief paragraphs, 5-7 sentences with no quoted or paraphrased material. Please use your own words. Longer posts with irrelevant information will have points deducted.)

You should also review relevant textbook readings/videos that address the historical context of art. If you view this video you will see that there is a section of this video that describes and applies historical context in 19th century Spain. (Remember yours will be on the Ancient Near East)

https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/ap-art-history/introduction-ap-arthistory/v/goya-third-may

Your post should define what historical context means, why it is important in art history, and then use an example of art from this week’s readings on Mespotamia (DO NOT CHOOSE CUNIFORM OR ANY FUNCTIONAL OBJECT) these are not appropriate art works for this discussion) to demonstrate the use of historical context in studying ancient art.

tip: don’t just post a description of an artwork — you need to directly show how it relates to the topic.