
Introduction This course is about artistic styles from Prehistory to the present era as they are known in occidental art and an overview of Mexican art from the origins to the XXth century. It is accessible in English, French and Spanish and refers to a Mexican city to establish a link between the past and the present: Tampico.

Periods in Art History


Beginings	Mexico	Post-gothic
Prehistory Egypt Mesopotamia Crete Greece Rome Paleochristian Byzantium Middle Ages Islam Romanesque Gothic	Olmecs Mayans Teotihuacan Tenochtitlan Huastecs Tajin Colony Independence Turn of the Century Muralism 20^th Century Exercises	Renaissance Mannerism Baroque Rococo Neoclassicism Romanticism Realism Impresionism ..Isms Architecture_19.. Abstraction Movement


Our Exhibits Huastec Murmur Fragments, United Continents


The project This project was born in 1991, when prof. John Grozik at SLIS, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, taught the group of ITESM librarians how to use Hypercard. At that time, however, conditions weren't favorable on this campus of ITESM. Things changed in summer 95 when the campus Web was created. The team includes principally : Roxana Farias (photos, translation into English), Jesus Dorantes Rivera , Carlos Luengas, Eugenio Puente (programming, interface), Elvia Barron (french translation and edition), Anne Souchaud de Luengas (design, text, search for and selection of images); It includes also, students and colleagues who gave their time and talent to edit, verify, search, maps and programming: Alejandro Ramírez, Jorge Villanueva, Serafin Tella, Manuel Bermúdez.... and those who lent their images from such far away places as Australia, Greece, New Zeland...The project has become international. Thanks to all: Kathleen Cohen, Bruno Mannoni, George y Christine Mansoor, Plamen Blaznikov, Thomas Rocheford, Khaled El sayed, Olivier Reyes Gutierrez, Laurent Alquier, Dr. Andre Bayuk, Andreas B. Syrigos, René Berger, Michael Greenhalgh, Dr. Stones, Royce Fromme, Claudio Forghieri, Wolfgang Werner, Panayotis Samaras, Michael Olteanu, Ross Firas, Rey Cedron, Bernard Bailly, Dean Dherak, P.B. Halsall, Pilar Violante, Suzanne Latour, Martha de la Garza, Christus Rex, Maison du patrimoine, Office du Tourisme, Jorge Torres Nader, Roberto García Escobar, Sergio Llerena, Mauricio Guerra, Diego Moreno, Marina Cominetti, Asdrubal Belandria Pereyra, Gretchen García, Raimundo Edgar, Carlos Arnaus, Aarón Gonzalez, Jaime Rodriguez, Ricardo Sanchez, Cecilia Valdez, la editorial mexicana "Fondo de Cultura Económica", La Universidad de Colima, especially Lic. Lourdes Feria.... Focus The original idea was to offer a history of architecture: Using as reference our local and hybrid architecture Taking advantage of the network richness .... Passion took us farther... Process Generation of text after bibliographic research. Translation, edition. Search for images around the city, filming. Search for images on the network, cataloging, permission, treatment. Programming of spanish text, pasting of images and checking. Copy programming into English and French texts, checking. Placement of materials on the network, backing up. Design of preliminary exercises Design of pre-evaluations. If you'd like to do something similar take the following in account: Identifying, cataloging and classifying images for a 5 or more chapters project requires extreme precision. Using a java or html editor saves a lot of time. Tables help organize visual information in an agreable way. Gif images are more precise than jpg ones, but they also mean many more Ks, except if your images are black and white. Most colleagues on the network are generous and cooperative, but some do not open their mail in centuries. The configuration of the receiving computer may change the quality of what you propose. You will always need more time than what you plan. Creation is a passion and enjoyment is great: good luck! Anne

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Date of project: June 20th 1996
Last update: February 23rd 2001