Photo of Gibbes Museum by MCG Photography, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5380664
For these essays, students analyzed works or artifacts displayed at the Gibbes Museum in September 2021. Each student analyzed a different work or small group of related works. (Signup is here.) Each essay responds to the questions below and interprets the meanings that this material holds in the 21st century.
- Why should someone come to this museum and view this work?
- What can we gain from studying it?
- What historical and cultural contexts help viewers to understand and enjoy this work?
- What resources can help us interpret the work and its significance?
Cite several resources you used that would be helpful to someone else who’d like to learn more. This should be at the end of the essay and does not count as part of the 500-700 words. Give the author (person or institution) and the title of the work, and then the date and web address if there is one. Your list can include materials we’ve read for this course, materials provided by the Gibbes Museum, or other resources you found on your own.
Your blog post should also include two images: an image of the art itself and a selfie of yourself standing near it. (If your topic has more than one image, only one selfie will suffice.) You may use the work’s title as the title of your post, or you may invent your own title.
Due Wednesday Sept 22 at 11:59 PM. Due Friday Sept 24 at 5 pm.