美国历史文化概况（英文版）UNIT_9_Art,_Literature,_and_Architecture教材教学课件.ppt

Unit 9 Art, Literature, and Architecture CONTENTS Teaching Aims Text A Text B Supplementing Reading TEACHING AIMS After studying this unit, you are required to: 1. Have a general idea of Art, Literature, and Architecture. 2. Understand the history of Art, Literature, and Architecture. 3. Master the difficult words and expressions. Text A Visual arts and Architecture of U.S.A TEXT A Preview 视觉艺术作品是指那些由专业视觉艺术工作者创作，在画廊、艺术展览会和拍卖行展出，并在美术机构尤其是博物馆展览的作品。从艺术对象来讲，视觉艺术包括绘画、雕刻、摄影及工艺品制作，以及属于媒体艺术和表演艺术的几种类型。美国是一个移民国家，几乎世界各主要民族的后裔都有，带来了各样建筑风格，其中尤其受英国、法国、德国、西班牙以及美国各地区原来传统文化的影响较大。 TEXT A Reading Comprehension Read the following sentences and decide whether they are true（T) or false（F)． 1. Since World WarⅡ ended, many America Movements have shaped Modern and Post Modern art. 2. America’s first well-known school of painting appeared in the eighteenth century. 3. To deal with the Great Depression, Roosevelt created some public arts programs in his New Deal to give work to artists and decorate public buildings. 4. The artistic generation of nineteenth century favored a different form of abstraction: works of mixed media. TEXT A Reading Comprehension 5. American architecture is regionally diverse and has been shaped by many internal forces, and can therefore be said to be eclectic. 6. The overriding theme of American Architecture is modernity because the US is a relatively young country. 7. The United States Capitol was once reconstructed because it had been completely burned by the British after its first construction. 8. John Russell Pope imitated the Pantheon in Rome and grace the Jefferson Memorial with a similar type dome to light Jefferson’s taste for Roman buildings. TEXT A Notes 1.Hudson River School：The Hudson River School was a mid-19th century American art movement embodied by a group of landscape painters whose aesthetic vision was influenced by romanticism. The paintings for which the