Modern Art History Response Essay

ARTH 204: Introduction to Modern Art and Visual Culture, 1860-1945

Final Paper Guidelines:

• Stapled, hard copies required.

No late exams . No Makeup exams. No extended deadline.

• You must properly cite all sources using the Chicago Manual of Style. Limit your citations to the assigned course Readings or other academic resources.

• Woodbury University policy clearly states that plagiarism is strictly prohibited.

Turn in your assignment on May 6, 2019 via Turnitin. Essays should be between 900 and 1,000 words.

You are required to include images in your essay. Whenever you describe a work of art at any length, as you begin, ideally your reader should be able to see a reproduction of it (you choose the size) on the same page as your description (do this just once; no need to reiterate). Place a caption (in 12-point font) below the image stating the artist’s surname (only), the title of the work (in italics), and its date.

Final Paper Question:

Read Clement Greenberg’s “Avant-Garde and Kitsch” (1939), T.J. Clark’s “Clement Greenberg’s Theory of Art” (1982) and Michael Fried’s “How Modernism Works: A Response to T. J. Clark” (1982). Read All Three of Them .

Write a response to one or multiple of the three influential essays. What are their interpretations and definitions of modernist art? Do you agree or disagree with the authors? Why? And most importantly, how can you formulate your understanding of the key features of modernist art with help from the three essays?

Incorporate three to five artworks from fauvism, expressionism, cubism, futurism, constructivism, Dadaism, surrealism, modernist architecture, art in the Third Reich, Mexican muralism, and Japanese modernist movements (such as mavo) to demonstrate your argument.

Final Paper Formatting Guidelines – Chicago Manual of Style

1. Heading: The heading goes in the upper right corner of the first page of your exam and should look like this:

Your Name

ARTH 204 – Midterm Exam

Spring 2019

Date

2. Formatting:

12-point font for the main text, footnotes and illustration captions

Times New Roman

1” page margins

Insert page number at the top right corner of each page

Heading is single-spaced, the entire body is DOUBLE SPACED

Need help?

Chicago Manual Style: http://www.docstyles.com/ctslite.htm

3.  When you cite a book or article in your essay…

You must always specify your exact source by means of a footnote placed at the bottom of the page. The footnote should be formatted like the example below & at the bottom of this page.

Example: Part of the difficulty in representing Mameluke figures in painting was that Mameluke society was ethnically so diverse. As Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby has pointed out, “Mamelukes came from throughout Eurasia and Africa and spoke many languages, among them, Arabic, Armenian, Greek, Turkish, Flemish, Italian, German, and French.”[footnoteRef:1] [1: Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby, Extremities: Painting Empire in Post-Revolutionary France (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2002), 108.]

Footnote (at the bottom of the page, 12-pt font):

Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby, Extremities: Painting Empire in Post-Revolutionary France (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2002), 108.

4. When you cite a work of art in your essay….

You must always specify exactly which work you are referring to by means of a footnote placed at the bottom of the page. In art history, referencing particular works of art normally includes the artist’s full name, the title of the work, the date, the medium and the location –

Jacques-Louis David, The Oath of the Horatii, 1785, oil on canvas, Paris, Louvre

5. Bibliography: You are not required to supplement your essay with a Bibliography.