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February 16, 2006
Course Blog for Class Discussion
I'm trying yet another little experiment.
I'm teaching Art 101 - Cave Painting Through Gothic - as a big lecture course this term. I have 46 students. Today we were looking at the transition from Black Figure to Red Figure in Greek art as part of studying style - "what do we mean by style in art?" kind of stuff; fun, fun, fun, if you're me, but it's hard to do discussion.
I finished with the Death of Sarpedon krater by Euphronios currently in the Met and got to open a new can of worms -- the "who owns art?" kind of stuff. Because there's so little room for discussion (or so hard to get 46 people to talk evenly) I've used the class web page to post a bunch of links about the Met, stolen art, and the Italian government and asked them to read and comment there.
I'll tell you if it works!
Oh my! It looks like I haven't ever commented on this! I find it hard to believe. Here's some background:
Here's an article from Newsday (the NYTimes takes its stories away for subscribers only behind a firewall too soon!) about the settlement.
Here are two notes from David Nishimura at Cronaca.
Posted by CrankyProfessor at February 16, 2006 5:30 PM