Assignment
Find and read the sections "Art and History" and "Describing a Work of Art" in Chapter One of the textbook.
How does the artist (Anita Kunz) make the New York businessman appear Egyptian on the New Yorker magazine cover on the left? What visual details (aspects of style) seem Egyptian to you?
Find the discussion of "canon of art" in the section "Discrimination in the Arts in America".
Look at the second New Yorker magazine cover on the right. What might be the message of this cartoon? How might it serve as a commentary on the "canon of art" and who defines the "canon"?