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Guidelines for Essay 2: Blurring the Boundaries between Art and Craft

2-4 pages (double-spaced, 12 point Times New Roman font), page numbers. Citations using

Harvard style. Each image should include a caption and a source. Remember to *underline your thesis*

Due Sunday by 7 pm

Today, how useful is the art/craft divide? Is it a vestige of an earlier era, a hindrance to the study of art history today? Is it a legacy helpful in understanding the history of art? Or is it a combination of both? Discuss where the conceptual binary originated, whether you would argue that it is still relevant today and why. How does performance contribute to your definition and classification of visual works as ‘art’, ‘craft’ or something else?

Discuss the following categories found in visual art today and include references to the following:

· Functional art (such as glass chandeliers, bowls, cups, etc.). Discuss and include at least one image and one source.

· Object biographies (discuss and reference the Gosden and Marshall reading).

· Focus on one non-western cultural tradition as the central focus of your paper (that is: Noh masks, Inca assemblage. Japanese tea ceremony or Ethiopian healing scrolls). Discuss and include at least one image and one source.

Present an argument in your introduction and in your conclusion state clearly whether it would be more useful to reintegrate the terms ‘art’ and ‘craft’ into a single concept, such as ‘visual studies’, or whether the terms as we use them today are more useful to the study of the history of art.

Essays should reference at least two readings and evidence from at least three assignments on this theme. (Evidence from assignments can include documentaries and websites.)