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Art is coming face to face with yourself
Select one of the following quotations and write an essay explaining how one of the texts you have studied does or does not support the quote. “Art is coming face to face with yourself.” – Jackson Pollock “When I reflect that the task which the artist implicitly sets himself is to overthrow existing values, to…
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A Marriage Proposal
Read Anton Chekhov’s A Marriage Proposal. Meaning Identify the object of Chekhov’s satire in this play. Support your interpretation with a specific reference to the text. Why do you think Chekhov included the character to Chubukov in the play? What functioin does he serve? Form and Style The play has a strong emotional tone. Explain…
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Introduction to Modernism Research Topics
Modernism Modernism Introduction Modernism Themes Make It New: The Rise of Modernism 30-1: Research these thinkers: Karl Marx, the naturalist Charles Darwin, the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, and the psychiatrist Sigmund Freud. What were their most important insights? What previous explanations did their writings reject? How do their ideas affect the world today? 30-2: Most of…
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A Personal Connection to Art
Identify a work of art that for you holds a personal connection or significance. Select one of the following quotations and write an essay explaining how your chosen work of art does or does not support the quote. “Art is coming face to face with yourself.” – Jackson Pollock “The task which the artist implicitly…
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Alienation and Helplessness
Many twentieth century artists have explored humankind’s shared feelings of alienation and helplessness. Identify a modern song that you think helps to illuminate Prufrock’s character or some of the ideas in The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S. Eliot. Quote the lyrics of the song and write an explanation of how the song reflects…
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The Artist in Society – Alone, Isolated, and Alienated
Northrop Frye, the famous Canadian literary critic, said “…we may come to realize that two essential facts about a work of art — that it is contemporary with its own time and that it is contemporary with ours — are not opposed but complementary facts.” Tennyson‘s “Lady of Shalott” and Elton John‘s “Candle in the…
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Sailing to Byzantium
Research Byzantine paintings or mosaics. Describe how human forms are presented in the examples you find. How do these works of art relate to William Butler Yeats‘s poem, Sailing to Byzantium.
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Separation from a Loved One
Compare and contrast how the following two poems deal with the theme of separation from a loved one: The River Merchant’s Wife: A Letter by Ezra Pound(a translation from original by Li Po) A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning by John Donne Focus on such aspects as imagery, symbolism, archetypes, mood, and characterization. Quote directly from the…
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Credibility of School in Film
Write a review of a feature-length film that depicts some form of school. In your review assess the credibility of the central character’s point of view on school and on learning.
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Walls
Research and find pictures and news stories about: The Western Wall in Jerusalem, the Walls of Jericho, the wall from Pyramus and Thisbe, Pink Floyd’s The Wall (film), and the Berlin Wall Explain any literal, symbolic, or archetypal connections of these walls to a text you have read.