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Allow a week or less for this chapter. However, it would be useful to check the College Board Web site early in the school year to determine what the topics will be that year for the 30-minute essay question that requires the inclusion of non-European examples in the response.

This chapter covers art from four distinct geographical regions and nearly a dozen specific cultures. The art of Australia, Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia are addressed in detail. Although this chapter covers a diverse group of artistic traditions, the art of Easter Island and of Australia are the most commonly tested. Students should be aware of the moai of Easter Island and the sand paintings of Australia. The art of Polynesia is usually discussed in reference to the Post-Impressionist Paul Gauguin.

The artistic traditions of the cultures studied in this chapter were frequently disturbed by interference from European intruders. The text discusses these incidents particularly in reference to the art of the Australian aborigines, the Polynesian people observed by Paul Gauguin in Tahiti and the Marquesas, and the Hawaiians.

Ask students to pick one of the cultures studied in this chapter and do research on its history for a report. Students should focus on when and under what circumstances these island cultures were explored by Europeans. Students should determine whether this meeting was friendly or acrimonious and in what ways the traditional art forms of the island were changed by contact with outsiders. Students might want to illustrate their reports with images of traditional art from their chosen culture, followed by contemporary works to show the evolution since the first European contact.