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For this week's Art Interpretation, please consider images discussed by Rock Hushka in "Undetectable: The Presence of HIV in Contemporary American Art"Preview the document or the performance pieces highlighted in either the reading (Links to an external site.) or the lecture about performance art. For Hushka, especially consider either the pieces labeled as (Figure 1, Figure 2, etc.), which are included in the .pdf; or be sure to see the supplement to Hushka, which includes many of the other images mentionedPreview the document by Hushka during the essay but which appear elsewhere in the original source book.
You need not limit yourself to the images on the weekly art page, if you took the time to google other images associated with those episodes. You may react to one of the prompts below; or, you may react to a post one of your classmates has already written; or, you may post on a topic of your choice as long as you are "reading" the art for this week. (Prompt 1 is the same every week.)
Remember this post needs to be only between 150-300 words. Posts are due on Thursdays at Noon.
PROMPT 1: Focus your comments on a single work of art that you encountered this week. What aesthetic qualities does the work possess that enable it to capture and hold the viewer's attention? How does the piece appear to stake out a position in some cultural dispute? What did it make you feel when you looked at it? What did it make you think about when you looked at it?
PROMPT 2: Select one or more of the pieces profiled by Huskha in "Undectable."Preview the document (For the ones featured in the .pdf, you may wish to google the name of the piece to see if you can find a full color version of that piece. Don't forget to peruse the Supplement to Hushka to view some of the other imagesPreview the document he discusses.) Explain how the image you selected fits the theme of activism, or chronicles the progress of the disease, or hints at the legacy of the disease.
PROMPT 3: Consider the unique characteristics of performance art as explained in Lecture 11. Select one of the pieces highlighted in the Lecture. (Links to these performances are on the Roadmap.) These pieces were selected specifically because the artist had a political message as well as an aesthetic one. Evaluate how successfully you think the piece combined art and activism. Explain your philosophy for judging art and activism. (For a much wider sampling of performance art pieces, see also The Art Story website (artstory.org) (For this week's Art Interpretation, please consider images discussed by Rock Hushka in "Undetectable: The Presence of HIV in Contemporary American Art"Preview the document or the performance pieces highlighted in either the reading (Links to an external site.) or the lecture about performance art. For Hushka, especially consider either the pieces labeled as (Figure 1, Figure 2, etc.), which are included in the .pdf; or be sure to see the supplement to Hushka, which includes many of the other images mentionedPreview the document by Hushka during the essay but which appear elsewhere in the original source book.
You need not limit yourself to the images on the weekly art page, if you took the time to google other images associated with those episodes. You may react to one of the prompts below; or, you may react to a post one of your classmates has already written; or, you may post on a topic of your choice as long as you are "reading" the art for this week. (Prompt 1 is the same every week.)
Remember this post needs to be only between 150-300 words. Posts are due on Thursdays at Noon.
PROMPT 1: Focus your comments on a single work of art that you encountered this week. What aesthetic qualities does the work possess that enable it to capture and hold the viewer's attention? How does the piece appear to stake out a position in some cultural dispute? What did it make you feel when you looked at it? What did it make you think about when you looked at it?
PROMPT 2: Select one or more of the pieces profiled by Huskha in "Undectable."Preview the document (For the ones featured in the .pdf, you may wish to google the name of the piece to see if you can find a full color version of that piece. Don't forget to peruse the Supplement to Hushka to view some of the other imagesPreview the document he discusses.) Explain how the image you selected fits the theme of activism, or chronicles the progress of the disease, or hints at the legacy of the disease.
PROMPT 3: Consider the unique characteristics of performance art as explained in Lecture 11. Select one of the pieces highlighted in the Lecture. (Links to these performances are on the Roadmap.) These pieces were selected specifically because the artist had a political message as well as an aesthetic one. Evaluate how successfully you think the piece combined art and activism. Explain your philosophy for judging art and activism. (For a much wider sampling of performance art pieces, see also The Art Story website (artstory.org) (https://www.theartstory.org/movement/performance-art/)
