Artists

1.How have various artists that we have studied engaged with the rise in commodity culture?

You might consider how artists in different cultural circumstances have utilized mass-produced consumer objects and/or “everyday materials” for diverse purposes. How, too, have some artists tried to resist or critique the commodity nature of art? In your response, you must cite at least three examples of art works (artist, title, date, location if applicable) and two of our readings by author.

  1. Increasingly, art in the 20th century has sought to incorporate the audience or engage with the viewer directly. What are some of the ramifications of this involved spectatorship? In your response, you must cite at least three examples of art works (artist, title, date, location of work if applicable) and two of our readings by author.
  2. How have artists responded to conditions of national crisis such as war, social unrest, or dictatorship? Discuss how some artists we have studied have sought to directly represent these situations, but also how some artists respond in more oblique or encoded ways. In your response, you must cite at least three examples of art works (artist, title, date, location of work if applicable) and two of our readings by author.
  3. Abstraction has been a strategy for many of the artists we have looked at this course. Discuss how abstraction has used as a tactic by at least three different artists from at least two different national backgrounds. How have artists turned to abstraction to comment on issues such as power, gender, race, ethnicity, sexuality, modernization, and/or marginality? In your response, you must cite at least three examples of art works (artist, title, date, location of work if applicable) and two of our readings by author.
  4. Much of the work we are examining seeks to escape the art institution or to challenge the traditional notion of art that “sits on its ass in a museum,” to quote Claes Oldenburg. At the same time, some of this art often maintains a connection to museums, patrons, market economies, and other institutional structures. Discuss this basic tension using a few works we have looked at as case studies. What are some reasons for the desire to move outside the museum walls? And how has the art institution absorbed or managed these critiques? In your response, you must cite at least three examples of art works (artist, title, date, location of work if applicable) and two of our readings by author (other than Oldenburg!).

 

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