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How did Japanese art influence Van Gogh’s paintings?

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While Henrik Ibsen and Yasmina Reza represent different historical contexts, both playwrights imagine worlds that reflect parts of our own. Compare and contrast the plays Art and A Doll House, focusing on dramatic structure, characters, and language.  

What do the plays share and where do they diverge? And, why bother comparing these: what new insight might emerge? 

You may consider the themes of the works’ content and/or the texts’ potential as blueprints for “live” theater. 

Please include brief quotes from both plays. 

Art and A Doll House: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/15492?msg=welcome_stranger

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Assessment 1:
Detailed analysis of an instance of contemporary performance – description, analysis and contextualisation – (August 24) with written paper (1000 words)
Due Date: 1st Sept 

An example of performance in contemporary life 
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OrxRk1AOzM

Think broadly, and choose an example that you are curious about, and would like to explore in depth. As we have been doing in class (and in the field of Performance Studies, or Performance Anthropology) you may decide to look within the Arts -- a work of art, music, dance, or theatre --- or something “performative” from the culture at large, such as politics, costuming, speech, advertising, public display, ritual, religion, folk culture, etc… You are encouraged to be trans-cultural in your exploration; it is fine (and fascinating!) to explore performance in cultures you do not inhabit.

2) Write up your description and reflections as a 1000 word Essay. Include formal academic reference to any theorists and writers you find pertinent.

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First of all, DESCRIBE this performance. How / who/ what / where / when – and then dig deeper. Issues to consider include – as we have been discussing in class - intimacy, scale, expertise, vernacular & pedestrian aesthetics, emotion, technology, distance, connection, presence, action and interaction, audience, attention, transformation, physicality, training, specialised languages, etc.
REFLECT on this performance in context: Does it serve or illuminate a particular culture or subculture? What is being created anew? Would this performance be ordinary, routine, or traditional to some people and not to others? What are the main experiences that we carry out of this performance? Does the “style” or “mode” of performance carry a message? How does it speak to your own practice?

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In 1607, the composer Claudio Monteverdi’s brother Giulio Cesare Monteverdi wrote that the “‘Second Practice’… is that style which is chiefly concerned with the perfection of the setting; in which harmony does not rule but is ruled, and where the words are mistress of the harmony” (Weiss and Taruskin 146). In all vocal music, there is a push and pull between the technical elements of the music (as prioritized in the “First Practice”) and the way a song musically
expresses its lyrics (as prioritized above in the “Second Practice”). In this paper, you will discuss how this relationship reflects and/or contributes to the context in which a specific song was originally written and performed. In the first part of your paper, you will examine seventeenth-century Venetian Opera, the cultural and economic circumstances in which it rose to prominence, and how it reflects the attitudes and priorities of the people involved in its production. What were their aesthetic priorities, and how did composers like Monteverdi satisfy
these priorities—specifically regarding how he sets the text (i.e. the lyrics) in his Venetian Operas? In the second, more substantial part of your paper, you will discuss one of the three songs from the nineteenth century listed above and examine the aesthetic priorities of the producers and consumers of your chosen song. Consider the interplay of music and text—does the music enhance, change, or subvert the meaning of the text? In what ways does virtuosity play
into your chosen piece? How do these specific musical elements reflect and/or contribute to the context in which your chosen song was created and performed? You may compare your song with instrumental works discussed in the first half of the course in order to bolster your argument, and you are encouraged to consider some of the broader issues of the class, such as the private/public dichotomy or the musical canon.

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Emphasising the importance of context, Themes in Contemporary Culture will introduce you to social, cultural, aesthetic, political, historical and global contexts. Through a series of thematically arranged lectures and correlating tasks & seminars, you will encounter new ideas, strategies for confronting existing concepts, as well as tools and modes of critical thinking and analysis.
The assignment will require you to start asking questions, carry out relevant research, engage with challenging ideas, organise ideas into structured arguments, and put forward your own responses to local and global issues we face in contemporary culture. You will explore themes and ideas of personal and professional interest, and consider the wider implications of those on creative industries. Using research, this will require you to think critically, and analyse various modes of cultural production, practices and contexts. There is a Formative assessment point at the end of Term 2, when you will receive feedback – or ‘feed forward’ – from your lecturers, which will benefit the development and quality of the Summative assignment.

This will require you to:
● Formulate a research question around a concept / idea / theory that is of interest to you, e.g. time, identity, melancholy, space, gender or similar (the chosen concept may have emerged from one or several of the weekly lectures). This can build on the theme explored for the Formative.
● Carry out and use research from a range of appropriate sources. These should be referenced in the text and listed in the bibliography, using the Harvard System of referencing.
● Choose 1-3 examples from visual and design culture (media, film, design, art, communication)
● Interrogate your concept and example/s and place these into relevant context (e.g. social, political,
aesthetic, technological, historical contexts)
● Analyse your chosen examples from visual culture
● Organise your inquiry into a research-based text, which include:
- a clear research question (title)
- an introduction (approx. 200 words)
- a body of text, structured into paragraphs (approx. 1600 words) - a conclusion (approx. 200 words)
● List a range of research sources in a bibliography, listed in alphabetical order according to the surname of the author
● The word count does not include the bibliography, notes or appendices.

Balram, (2011) Thinking Design, London, Sage
2. Berger, J. (1972) Ways of Seeing, London: Penguin
3. Berger, J. (2009) About Looking, London: Penguin
4. Cottrell, S. (2005) Critical Thinking Skills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan
5. Francis, P. (2013) Inspiring Writing in Art and Design: Taking a Line for a Write, Bristol: Intellect Books
New Mindsets / Ravensbourne University London 2018/19
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6. Hall, S. (2012) This Means This, This Means That: A User’s Guide to Semiotics, 2nd ed., London: Laurence King Publishing Ltd
7. Northedge, A. (2008) The Arts Good Study Guide, 2nd ed., Milton Keynes: Open University Worldwide
8. Tilley, C. et al. (2013) Handbook of Material Culture, London, Sage

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Based only on the works of Raphael Michalangelo Bernini Holbein Bruegel Rambrandt, how does the representation of architecture in paintings and prints differ from actual buildings that we have seen? For example, are there differences in the types of buildings depicted compared to Greek temples and Christian churches? Are there differences in the use of interior space? Ground your argument in at least three specific pictorial examples.

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Using outside  research,  present  a  three-page  (double  spaced,  1-inch 
margins) or more essay on the historical,  social,  and political backdrop of the period design. Cite the ideas behind the style and what is typical about the design of the style.   (For example,  what design elements are typical of Spanish Colonial Style?  What is the history of the style?) 

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Discuss an accomplishment, event, or realization that sparked a period of personal growth and a new understanding of yourself or others.

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Compare and contrast between Paxton's Crystal Palace and Soufflot Pantheon

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Anthropomorphic architecture

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Select an architectural monument from the following list of possibilities: Shrine at Ise, Horyuji Complex, Todaiji, Nara, Taj Mahal, Frederick Stevens, Victoria Terminus, Mumbai, India, 1887, The Forbidden City, Himeji Castle, Hyogo, Near Osaka, and Tange Kenzo, Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum. Write an architectural analysis. You can also independently do some research on the monument that you select on the internet  

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Weigh the pros and cons of using social media (such as Youtube) as a way for theatre companies to reach a wider audience.