Art (Fine arts, Performing arts)
Topic: Art history paper
Please respond to any TWO of the following questions with essays of approximately 1,000 words. Your exam as a whole, then, should be about 2,000 words in length.
Essays must draw on course lectures, discussions, and readings. Please cite course readings with parenthetical documentation of author and page numbers and append a bibliography of works cited at the end of the document. Formatting of bibliographical entries should follow the format used on your course syllabus. For authors by whom we read more than one thing, if you are referring to both contributions in parenthetical documentation, utilize publication dates to indicate the specific source: for example, Smith 1998 or Smith 2011.
1. Analyze the oeuvres of three contemporary artists or artist groups for whom a particular
modern artist is centrally important. Why is the contemporary artist or artist group drawn to the
modern artist in question? What does the contemporary artist/artist group embrace in their
modernist forebear, and what do they reject? Which modernist approaches and ideas transcend
time and cultural space most readily? Which are most resistant to importation or translation?
4. There are a number of historical and art historical events that have been used to mark the boundary between modern and contemporary art. Select one such event and explain how art making and the art world have changed as a result of it. Provide five examples of contemporary artworks or artistic phenomena that have been shaped by the event, analyzing in detail how a given work and the event are interrelated.
