Resources: Review your Week 1 readings and videos.
For your Week 1 Assignment, choose one of the options listed below.
Option A
Write a 700- to 1,050-word paper (Word count is based on only the body of the paper. Word count does not include the text on the title or reference pages.) on how art reflects the society in which it was made that responds to the following:
- What image of America was communicated by the innovations and buildings presented at the 1893 Chicago’s World Fair? How was this image communicated?
- How and why was the art produced by the Ashcan School different from that of the Gilded Age? To what changes in social history were artists reacting?
- How is art a reflection of society? Explain with at least two examples to illustrate the relationship between art and society. These two examples may be from the text or of your own selection. Discuss the subject or theme of your selected works.
Add “Option A” to the title of your assignment.
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Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.
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Option B
Choose one of the following works for discussion of a theme present in the Week 1, Ch. 5 and 6 readings:
- The sculptures commemorating the Haymarket Square incident
- The Statue of Liberty
- The Court of Honor or “White City” of the Chicago World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893
- Mary Cassatt’s Modern Woman
- Henry Tanner Ossawa’s The Banjo Lesson
- A painting or print by John Sloan
Discuss the theme (subject) of the work and address the following in a 700- to 1,050-word (Word count is based on only the body of the paper. Word count does not include the text on the title or reference pages.) paper:
- What is the context in which the work was created? How was it reflective of the social changes underway during this era?
- What was the subject or message of the work, and why was it important to the artist to create? What ideas or points of view was the artist communicating with their work?
- How was the work representative of the values of either the Gilded Age or the Ashcan School artists?
Add “Option B” to the title of your assignment.
Submit the contents of your paper to Grammarly. Make edits to grammar, punctuation, and mechanics based on the feedback from Grammarly.
Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.
Upload your paper in a Microsoft® Word document to the Plagiarism Checker and save the Turnitin report or take a screenshot of the report and insert it into a Microsoft® Word document.
Submit the Plagiarism Checker report as an attachment when submitting your assignment.
Submit your assignment in a Microsoft® Word document using the Assignment Files tab above.
Verify that TWO attachments (Plagiarism Checker report and the assignment) were successfully submitted.
