Art 4208B-01W Art of the 20th &

Art 4208B-01W Art of the 20^th & 21^st Centuries: Pollock to the Present

Term Project assignment:

Option 2: Catalogue

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 select your primary work and your show/catalogue theme either from the High Museum, one of your texts, or elsewhere. Whatever your theme, you must submit a written proposal to me by February 13th. You will build your show around the theme you develop in relationship to the particular work or works from the museum or from various other sources. Your catalogue will include an essay explaining the theme you have chosen and entries for each item, to describe the object or item, give pertinent data about its creation, use, context, and history, which you will glean from your research, and you must supply references to document your findings and for further information four your readers.

The High Museum has works in numerous areas that we cover: painting, sculpture, photography, etc. And the two newer buildings are strong examples of the work by their architects. Make sure you are focused on Modern, PostModern or Contemporary works (post-1945). If you select works by an artist who also worked prior to this date, make sure you use only works that were created after WWII.

Proposal is due February 13th, Annotated Bibliography is due February 28th (see separate directions for that) final project is due April 15^th.

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 or political concept or an historical event, or a sociological condition peculiar to this era, 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 and carefully-positioned 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, with footnotes.

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.

Footnotes.

Bibliography

Either in the individual entries or separately and cross-referenced, as noted. Total number of entries will be 8-12, 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.

Cite your sources. (You should have at least 8-10)*** Your format for citations should follow that used in Art Bulletin¸ or refer to the Chicago Manual of Style (14^th edition -- 1993) or to the Writer’s Resource handbook which has been adopted by UWG. Be careful to give credit for any sources you read, ideas you gather, and information you use, including wall cards at the museum, WHETHER YOU QUOTE IT DIRECTLY OR NOT. (It is better to avoid quotation as a rule -- rather paraphrase the idea and cite the source)

For Chicago style, in brief, go to: http://library.osu.edu/sites/guides/chicagogd.php

PLAGIARISM – STEALING OTHERS’ IDEAS –

IS A SERIOUS ACADEMIC OFFENSE, AND WILL BE TREATED AS SUCH. AND, IT IS ALWAYS MUCH MORE APPARENT THAN YOU THINK IT WILL BE.

(And I can easily check it)

BE VERY CAUTIOUS ABOUT "INFORMATION" FROM THE INTERNET.

There is no requirement for anyone to have any authority to post something on the web.

Especially avoid ".com" sites as unlikely to have scholarly content and credentials.

If you do use info from a website, download and print it, and submit it with your paper.

IMAGES

These must have:

artist’s name, title, date, media, size, location, and (image source, page number or illustration number)

– all neatly typed below the image.

For each, supply information about the source of the image in your bibliography, the same as you would for any reference. format:

example fig 1. john smith Flight of angels. 1978. graphite drawing on vellum. 14.3X15 inches. High Museum of art. (Gardner fig. 21.9)

then the source of the image (e.g. the full bibliographic info for Gardner) goes into the Bibliography you create for the whole paper. The format of this may be altered to some extent, depending upon the design of your catalogue, BUT all of this information must be supplied for each image

GRADING

You will be graded on conception and execution. The project is a requirement of the course and must be turned in on November 27^th . Late projects will not be accepted and failure to turn the project in will result in failure of the course. It is worth 20 of the 100 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%

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.

All papers are due on Monday, April 15th at the beginning of class. No late papers will be accepted. If you do not turn the paper in at the beginning of the class period of the day it is due you will receive a 0.