AP Art History

In the AP Art History course, students are invited to discover the
diversity of and connections among global artistic traditions. Art
History prepares students interested in fine arts careers such as:
art critics, art selling agents, museum curators, art investment
researcher, and art restoration. Students interact with different
types of art, observing and analyzing relationships of form, function,
content, and context through their reading, discussion, research,
and writing. Using 250 representative works of art spanning
prehistory to the present comprise the course content, students
will study functions and effects of art and consider influential
forces like belief, class, gender, ethnicity, patronage, and politics
in their critical analyses of art forms. They will investigate how
humans respond to the world and communicate their experiences
through art making by examining chronology, styles, techniques,
and themes to compare, contrast, and interpret art forms from
varied perspectives and cultures.