NOTE: see syllabus for updated info about accessing readings and images

Cultural Events Requirements
All of the materials and information are available on the Art History Department website. See links below.

Suggested Events (Remember, at least one event must be sposored by the Department of Art History or the Handwerker Gallery)

Assignment sheet

Form for submission:
- Please fill out the PDF form on the computer
- save with [your last name]CE[1, 2, or 3] (ie: if you are Jane Smith, your second cultural events assignment name will be "smithCE2.pdf")
- Email it to me at jjolly@ithaca.edu by the required date.

EXAM #1

For your exam #1 you are responsible for all the images and terms listed on the daily images and terms list (see the art and power page).

Here is a link to a website with study images. Sign in as if you were accessing your assigned readings. Note, for the proper "Culture/Nationality" information, however, you need to rely on your study guide sheets (I don't control this database, so, for example, a colonial Brazilian church will just be labeled as being from "Brazil," and I want you to also remember the COLONIAL bit). ALSO NOTE: QENKO from the Inca class is nt yet here; I will fix that soon, but for now use your OIV slides to study it.

As you study each work, ask yourself, "what makes this typical of the culture that produced it?" Be sure you are thinking about content, function, and form (ie: conventions of representation, style, media, ideas about beauty, etc).

You will be allowed to bring into the exam one 3x5 index card with names, dates, and terms from your required images sheet, written in your own hand. The card should have writing on only one side, and will be turned in with your exam.

VISUAL ANALYSIS PAPER
Due: March 28th
Requirement: you must visit the Cornell Museum of Art in order to complete this assignment
web version of assignment
PDF of assignment

EXAM #2

Study Images. Sign in as if you were accessing readings.

Study Questions:

1. Nature as a cultural symbol:
How does the natural world serve as a metaphor for understanding a particular historical moment, or set of cultural values?

2. Humans' relationship to the natural world:
How is art used to define or think critically about humans' changing relationship to nature?

3. Separate Spheres
How has the western idea that there is a division between the realm of nature and the realm of culture been supported or critiqued by artists?

4. There is no natural way to represent the natural world:
How does each of the societies we've studied use a distinct set of conventions to represent the natural world

EXAM #3

FINAL EXAM TIMES::
Section 1 (11:00): Friday, May 11, 10:30-12:30 am
Section 2 (1:00): Thursday, May 10, 8:00-10:00 am

Study Images. Sign in as if you were accessing readings. If you would like to stop my my office to pick up a blue index card, please do. Same drill as before: ONLY names, titles, dates, and terms from the required images/terms sheet; ONLY one side of the card.

Major Themes:

Hybrid Objects, Syncretism, and Appropriation

Art as a document of cultural encounter; art as an opportunity for cultural encounter

The Other