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AP Art History
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Free AP Art History study notes for AP (Advanced Placement) students. Each chapter covers a key topic with examples and practice prompts you can continue inside the thinka app.
Content Area 1: Global Prehistory, 30,000–500 BCE
Paleolithic and rock art
Neolithic objects and monuments
Content Area 2: Ancient Mediterranean, 3500 BCE–300 CE
Ancient Near East
Ancient Egypt
Aegean and Greek Archaic to Classical
Greek Hellenistic and Etruscan
Roman Republic and Empire
Content Area 3: Early Europe and Colonial Americas, 200–1750 CE
Late Antique, Byzantine and early Christian
Early medieval, Romanesque and Gothic
Late Gothic and Early Renaissance in Italy
Northern Renaissance
High Renaissance and Mannerism
Baroque in Europe
Colonial Americas
Content Area 4: Later Europe and Americas, 1750–1980 CE
Neoclassicism and Romanticism
Realism, photography and Impressionism
Post-Impressionism and Symbolism
Early 20th-century avant-gardes
Modern architecture and design
Postwar and late modern art
Content Area 5: Indigenous Americas, 1000 BCE–1980 CE
Mesoamerica
Andean South America and North America
Content Area 6: Africa, 1100–1980 CE
West African courts and kingdoms
Central, East and Southern Africa
Content Area 7: West and Central Asia, 500 BCE–1980 CE
Ancient Persia and Central Asia
Islamic art and architecture
Content Area 8: South, East, and Southeast Asia, 300 BCE–1980 CE
South and Southeast Asia
China and Korea
Japan
Content Area 9: The Pacific, 700–1980 CE
Polynesia and Micronesia
Melanesia and Australia
Content Area 10: Global Contemporary, 1980 CE to Present
Identity, body and representation
Globalisation, materials and installation
Contemporary architecture and new media
Art Historical Thinking Skills & Exam Tasks
Skill 1: Visual Analysis
Skill 2: Contextual Analysis
Skill 3: Comparison of Works of Art
Skill 4: Artistic Traditions
Skill 5: Visual Analysis of Unknown Works
Skill 6: Attribution of Unknown Works
Skill 7: Art Historical Interpretations
Skill 8: Argumentation and Art Historical Identifications
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