AP Art History

nerdlyfe
Mon, 17 Sep 2012 14:56:25 +0000

Review Books:
REA and Annotated Arch
Get the Annotated Mona Lisa only as a substitute for REA.

Personally, instead of flashcards I would take notes. I took art history as a class and we would cut out pictures of the art and our teacher would lecture. You would write lecture notes beside the image. I combined this with REA readings and found I really learned the information. But, if you prefer to quiz yourself make cards. I found it easier and more manageable to just take notes and read the book.

Essays are not that complicated. After reading through REA, you will get a lot of details that can be put into essays. Some of these can also be gathered from the “Annotated…” series. I wrote one essay before the test. Instead of writing essays I just looked at College Board’s examples and studied them.[AP Central - The AP Art History Exam](AP Art History Exam – AP Central | College Board)

A good website to supplement all of this is:[Smarthistory: a multimedia web-book about art and art history](http://smarthistory.khanacademy.org/)
I would use this website instead of making notecards.