ART 4201W/5201 TERM PROJECT
DUE DATES
Proposal: February 15th
April 12th
You will create an illustrated written catalogue for an exhibition of 8-12 works of art, for which you will choose the theme. You should go to the Carlos Museum and settle on your work from that collection and the theme of your treatment by February 13th, the due date for your Museum Object Writing Assignment. On the next class day, February 15th, submit a written statement of your intentions for your catalogue -- your main object, theme, and the works or type of works you propose to gather together. You will build your show around a theme you develop in relationship to the Carlos work and the others you will choose from various sources. Your catalogue will include an essay explaining the theme you have chosen and entries for each item, to describe the object, give pertinent data about its creation, use, context, and history, which you will glean from your research, and references for further information.
COMPONENTS :
Thematic essay: This should be 3-4 pages, in which you define the parameters and the theme of your exhibition. Discuss in detail what you used as criteria for assembling the group of works, what you will discuss in relationship to them as a group, and any limits and limitations there are for your study. You may define the theme as narrowly or as broadly as you like as long as your logic is convincing and coherent and the exhibition and the written entries support your discussion, and vice versa. Your rationale does not necessarily have to be centrally focused on them as works of art, but you must take into account the artistic means which were used to give form to ideas. If they exemplify a particular spiritual or cultural concept or practice, the introductory essay should deal with that in whatever detail is necessary, and the bibliography for that portion of the catalogue should support the theme.
Catalogue entries:
You will provide an image, professionally presented, and write an entry for each of the 8-12 works. What is contained in these will depend upon how you have defined your theme and how you relate each of the works to that theme, but they must include the following:
· Carefully framed image with caption that includes: Artist, title, date, medium, dimensions, location, source of your image. Each should be assigned a figure number, based on the order of introduction of the works. (See the samples on my office window for models).
· Discussion of how the work fits into your theme, what is significant or distinctive about that work, and whatever sort of formal analysis supports your selection of it as an exemplar of your theme. This will be approximately one page per object/entry.
· Annotated bibliography for that particular work, or its type, origin, iconography, content, or whatever additional information you deem appropriate to the object.
· If it seems more appropriate to create a single cross-referenced bibliography for the collection of entries and the introductory essay, this will be acceptable as long as it is presented clearly and professionally, with ease of the reader in mind.
Bibliography
Either in the individual entries or separately and cross-referenced, as noted. Total number of entries will be 12-20, and will include professional journal articles and books. You will do scholarly library research (not just on the internet), including materials from interlibrary loan, and formulate an intellectually sound study, which will be well-written and professionally-presented.
GRADING
You will be graded on conception and execution. The project is a requirement of the course and must be turned in on April 12th. Late projects will not be accepted and failure to turn the project in will result in failure of the course. It is worth 100 of the 540 points for the semester’s work. It will be evaluated with regard to the following:
Intellectual Content/Artistic Relevance = 50%
Presentation/Following Directions = 25 %
Structure/Grammar/Writing = 25%
AT THE CARLOS: (Please consult website for directions to the Carlos and information about hours of operation, parking, etc. http://carlos.emory.edu/ Sunday docent tours are at 2:30. Also check their website for lectures and performances associated with the Domains of Wonder show, if those interest you.
ASIAN
1) Seated Buddha from Mathura 2000.5.1
2) Durga Battling the Buffalo Demon 2001.1.6
3) Vishnu Sleeping on the Cosmic Ocean 2001.1.14
4) Cosmic Form of 18-Armed Vishnu 2001.0.4
5) Pala Buddha 2001.1.7
6) Miniature Stele of the Boddhisattva Avalokiteshvara 2001.1.8
7) Brass Dancing Girl L2000.32
8) 4-Faced Lingam 2001.1.5
9) Bhairavi 2000.16.1
10) Relief fragment with Buddha flanked by worshippers. X.427.4a
11) Figure of the Buddhist goddess Lhamo 2001.19.1
12) Dancing Balakrishna from Tamil Nadu 2001.1.3
13) Jain Altar of Rishabhanatha from Karnataka 2000.13
You may select any of the works from the Domains of Wonder show. It has may remarkable paintings, of various types. Be sure that you give the full name and the catalogue number.
Please note that this show will be only be on view until March 11th, so if you select work from it, make sure your gather any info you need before it closes.
If these choices do not suit what you had in mind, come to me with a proposal for a different object as a starting point, and we will discuss the possibilities.