Resources: Review Ch. 5 and 6 of Oxford History of Art: Twentieth-Century American Art, the Week 3 Electronic Reserve
Readings, your Video Reflections, and at least one additional scholarly online or library resource.
Prepare a 5- to 10-slide Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation in which you examine the works of photographers working during
the 1930s and the work of Abstract Expressionists.
Include responses and discussion of the following in your presentation:
Three photographers who worked during the 1930s
At least two examples of photography from each photographer
A description of the types of subjects photographed
Your opinion on whether or not photography is a fine art form with an explanation
Your opinion regarding how photography has affected American culture
One Abstract Expressionists painter who worked in post-World War II America
At least one art work
A description of the style of the painter and why he or she was interested in this style of abstraction
A description of how this style emerged in post-World War II America and why it differed from the art work of the 1930s
Submit your American Art Before and After World War II Presentation.
For Local Campus students, these are oral presentations accompanied by Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentations.
For Online and Directed Study students, these are Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentations with speaker's notes which support and expand upon your bulleted text.
Assignment 2:
Format your presentation consistent with APA guidelines and include a slide with all references.
Resource: Review "Documenting the Face of America: Roy Stryker and the FSA/OWI Photographers," and Ch. 5 of Oxford
History of Art: Twentieth-Century American Art.
Write a 200- to 350-word summary responding to the following:
How was photography used as an instrument for social reform? What photograph do you think makes the most powerful social commentary? Why?