Introduction to Modern Art and Visual Culture

ARTH 204: Introduction to Modern Art and Visual Culture, 1860-1945

Introduction to Modern Art and Visual Culture
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Final Paper Guidelines:
Stapled, hard copies required.
No late exams.No Makeup exams. No extended deadline.
You must properly cite all sources using the Chicago Manual of Style. Limit your citations to the assigned course Readings or other academic resources.
Woodbury University policy clearly states that plagiarism is strictly prohibited.
Turn in your assignment onMay 6, 2019viaTurnitin. Essays should be between900and1,000words.
You are required to include images in your essay. Whenever you describe a work of art at any length, as you begin, ideally your reader should be able to see a reproduction of it (you choose the size) on the same page as your description(do this just once; no need to reiterate). Place a caption (in 12-point font) below the image stating the artists surname (only), the title of the work (in italics), and its date.
Final Paper Question:
Read Clement Greenbergs Avant-Garde and Kitsch (1939), T.J. Clarks Clement Greenberg’s Theory of Art (1982) and Michael Frieds How Modernism Works: A Response to T. J. Clark (1982).Read All Three of Them.
Write a response to one or multiple of the three influential essays. What are their interpretations and definitions of modernist art? Do you agree or disagree with the authors? Why? And most importantly, how can you formulate your understanding of the key features of modernist art with help from the three essays?
Incorporatethreetofiveartworks from fauvism, expressionism, cubism, futurism, constructivism, Dadaism, surrealism, modernist architecture, art in the Third Reich, Mexican muralism, and Japanese modernist movements (such as mavo) to demonstrate your argument.
Final Paper Formatting Guidelines Chicago Manual of Style
1.Heading:The heading goes in the upper right corner of the first page of your exam and should look like this:
Your Name
ARTH 204 Midterm Exam
Spring 2019
Date
2. Formatting:
12-point font for the main text, footnotes and illustration captions
Times New Roman
1 page margins
Insert page number at the top right corner of each page
Heading is single-spaced, the entire body is DOUBLE SPACED
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Chicago Manual Style:
3. When you cite a book or article in your essay
You must always specify your exact source by means of a footnote placed at the bottom of the page. The footnote should be formatted like the example below & at the bottom of this page.
Example: Part of the difficulty in representing Mameluke figures in painting was that Mameluke society was ethnically so diverse. As Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby has pointed out, Mamelukes came from throughout Eurasia and Africa and spoke many languages, among them, Arabic, Armenian, Greek, Turkish, Flemish, Italian, German, and French.[footnoteRef:1] [1: Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby, Extremities: Painting Empire in Post-Revolutionary France (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2002), 108.]
Footnote (at the bottom of the page, 12-pt font):
Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby,Extremities: Painting Empire in Post-Revolutionary France(New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2002), 108.
4. When you cite a work of art in your essay.
You must always specify exactly which work you are referring to by means of a footnote placed at the bottom of the page. In art history, referencing particular works of art normally includes the artists full name, the title of the work, the date, the medium and the location
Jacques-Louis David, The Oath of the Horatii, 1785, oil on canvas, Paris, Louvre
5. Bibliography:You arenotrequired to supplement your essay with a Bibliography.