Solving the Same Problem: Ancient Mediterranean and West African Sculpture: Art Unit 2, Grade 10 (Letters & Devotion)

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Solving the Same Problem: Ancient Mediterranean and West African Sculpture is Unit 2 of Seeing and Meaning: A History of Visual Analysis (Part 1) (Grade 10), the Letters & Devotion Art course, complete in one printable PDF: 10 lessons, the unit check-up and the answer key, 93 pages.

• Contrapposto as a formal device in standing figural sculpture
• Idealization as a culturally motivated formal choice in Greek sculpture
• Register composition versus continuous narrative in relief sculpture
• Ritual and civic function of Nok and Ife figural sculpture
• The comparative method applied to a novel Greco-Roman/West African pair
• The assumption of a single developmental hierarchy underlying comparative rankings of ancient sculptural traditions
• Transfer of the comparative method to sculptural traditions never covered in this unit
• The assumption of a single developmental hierarchy, applied to a tradition and label-writing context never discussed in class
• The structure of a paired-image comparative argument
• Unit vocabulary: contrapposto, idealization, register composition, patron, workshop

Every lesson is written for a parent with no teaching background: it opens with a short script to read aloud, names the specific wrong idea a student is likely to reach for and how to correct it, and closes with a practice sheet you may copy for your household. Scripture references are King James Version throughout. Black-and-white, 8.5 x 11 in. The whole year of this course is also in this store as a single book.

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