PART A: 3 ESSAYS
PART B: 1 OR 2 MORE ESSAYS, DEPENDING ON YOUR CHOICE (see directions in Part B)
PART A: Select 3 pairs from among the choices of pairs listed below for Compare and Contrast/Thematic essays. First, identify them fully, in LIST form, as follows: (can cut-and-paste)
| 1. Your Left: Your Right: Period/Style: Period/Style: Title: Title: Date: Date: Artist/Architect: Artist/Architect: Location, ONLY if architecture Location, ONLY if architecture or architectural decoration: or architectural decoration: |
| for manuscripts, give titles of image and of book |
You should consider carefully how each of the works fits into its period, cultural, or stylistic category and/or sub-category, making sure that you are being very specific. How does each work function within the society and its period? Then discuss the works in relationship to one another, fully exploring their significance and their implications as examples of medieval work, as well as any more specific art historical/historical category.
The images here come from the text or PPT videos, All Chapters (6 - 17). Some of the images are details of larger works or alternative views. If that is the case, your discussion should include information that is pertinent about the larger work, as well as any other issues about context that are relevant. Consider their roots and/or influences, their uses/purposes, meanings, and anything else that may be significant in historical/art historical terms, including other works with the same subject, style, purpose, influences, &C. State the rationale for the comparison. Write a fully developed essay. If you refer to images not included here, cite them by PPT or ill. number.Your answers should be drawn from the material in the PPT videos, your text, and your own thoughtful observation ONLY. This NOT a research project. DO NOT go surfing the web for your essay material. Evidence of the use of the web will earn you a 0 (ZERO) for the exam.
Consider carefully any narrative ideas at play and the sources of the narratives in the two. Do the works mark an important historical moment? Are there ways to compare them according to style or technique? You should prepare to write a well-developed comparison/contrast type essay, thoroughly discussing how they embody noteworthy distinctions between the periods and styles, and discussing their approaches to the creation and use of art. Consider, as usual, the standard question for Compare and Contrast, which appears on any exam: First, identify both works in the pair, in list form, by the style/period/movement, title, artist, and date. Then, for that pair of slides, write a UNIFIED essay, using complete sentences, in which you discuss the works in relationship to one other. Evaluate the similarities and the differences between each two. Consider the purpose of each and its significance within the cultural/ stylistic/historical period in which it was created. Also consider: media, size, location, etc., as appropriate.
Write a really full discussion for each. Prepare in MSWord (only). Type, Double space. Pay attention to grammar, word choices, clarity, conciseness. (WAC class -- you will be graded on writing)
File title: lastnamefirstinitialfinal.doc. ex: jonesrfinal.doc
Submit only one file. If you submit multiple files, only one will be graded.
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PART B:
Option 1: single works: Select 2 from below (A - D) and write a fully developed essay on each of those;
Option 2: Select 1 from below, and find something from among what we have studied to which you can compare
Option 3: Select 2 of your own choice from among what we have examined, but nothing that was on a previous exam, or that you used for your term project
For Option 2 or 3: Write a full compare and contrast essay, as above. For the works you select for comparison, provide full ID information, as well as citing the source of your work, from text page or PPT
