Reviewing the Arts – Summer 07

Reading Due: 

Goldhaber, Michael. “What is the Price of Art in Cyberspace?”
Baker, Kenneth. “Lost in the Cyberspace Translation“

We will also be doing Presentations. 
If you would like some extra credit, please consider the following questions and respond:
Thinking back on all that we’ve talked about so far, as well as the reading assignment for this week, explain your [...]

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From Laura: HI I tried to post this example of Culture Jamming on the blog, yet it wouldn’t post. I found it because my friend sent it to me after I showed her the bubble project website. I thought that this was a really clever way to get people to notice the smoking ads. How delusional [...]

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PLEASE BE SURE TO SEE THE REGULAR ASSIGNMENT DUE TODAY BELOW (Response Assignment #5) 
If you want/need extra credit (worth the equivalent of one response assignment):
Find your own example of “culture jamming,”  send me your image via email, and then explain in this blog why you believe it is an example of culture jamming (I’ll post the image after you’ve [...]

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Blog Response DUE ONLINE by 6 p.m. on June 5th:
Reading Due: 

Croce, Arlene. “Introduction” and “Discussing the Undiscussable,” Crisis of Criticism (handout given in class).

Below are some questions that you may consider for the next response. You are not expected to answer all of these questions – you could focus on just a few that [...]

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Blog Response DUE ONLINE by 6 p.m. on Thursday, May 31st
Read the following:
The Guardian | 2002 | What is art for? by Jeanette Winterson
Cohen, Ted. “High and Low Art, and High and Low Audiences”
Cotter, Holland. “Beyond Multiculturalism, Freedom?”
 
Then, answer any one set of questions below, incorporating your understanding of at least two of the three readings into your [...]

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Blog Response DUE ONLINE by 6 p.m. on Tuesday, May 29th 
Read each of the following and then respond to ONE of the questions within EACH reading (at bottom). You can either post two separate blogs or one.

Excerpts from What Is Art? by Leo Tolstoy
Excerpts from “The Aesthetic Hypothesis,” in Art, by Clive Bell

Again, I [...]

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