Assignment
Choose two of the following prompts. Take one hour to write each of your responses.
Length: 3 to 4 pages.
• Technique has been a central question for us since the beginning of this class. So, too, has the extent to which artists in the Modern period introduced "non-artistic" objects and procedures into the production of art. Technique, artistic form, and content, we have seen, are intimately, necessarily linked. Write a short, comparative essay discussing how technique might inform our understanding of two artworks we examined over the last five weeks.
• In the 19th century and 20th centuries, the status of art and its role in modern society came into question. Art's privileged domain - its autonomy, its difference from mass-produced objects (commodities), its delimiting frame - became a battleground. Some sought to reinforce art's specificity (i.e., its difference), others to accelerate the collapse of art into life. Write a short, comparative essay discussing how two of the artworks we examined address this particular problem.
• One way to link the artworks we've looked at is to say that each of them questions the rules of representation. Indeed, we might give that thread its own problematic - "the crisis of representation" - and go on to say that it orients Modern Art on the whole. Choose two of the artworks we've examined and write a short essay describing how, both together and separately, they confront the question of representation - how, that is, we might talk about them in relation to representation.
Format your assignment according to the give formatting requirements:
• The answer must be using Times New Roman font (size 12), double spaced, typed, with one-inch margins on all sides.
• The response also includes a cover page containing the student's name, the title of the assignment, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
• Also include a reference page. The references and Citations should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.