American Art Before and After World War II
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Assignment:1
Resource: Review "Documenting the Face of America: Roy Stryker and the FSA/OWI Photographers," and Ch. 5 of Oxford History of Art: Twentieth-Century American Art.
Write a 200- to 350-word summary responding to the following:
How was photography used as an instrument for social reform? What photograph do you think makes the most powerful social commentary? Why?
Assignment: 2
Resources: Review Ch. 5 and 6 of Oxford History of Art: Twentieth-Century American Art, the Week 3 Electronic Reserve Readings, your Video Reflections, and at least one additional scholarly online or library resource.
Prepare a 5- to 10-slide Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation in which you examine the works of photographers working during the 1930s and the work of Abstract Expressionists.
Include responses and discussion of the following in your presentation:
- Three photographers who worked during the 1930s
- At least two examples of photography from each photographer
- A description of the types of subjects photographed
- Your opinion on whether or not photography is a fine art form with an explanation
- Your opinion regarding how photography has affected American culture
- One Abstract Expressionists painter who worked in post-World War II America
- At least one art work
- A description of the style of the painter and why he or she was interested in this style of abstraction
- A description of how this style emerged in post-World War II America and why it differed from the art work of the 1930s
Submit your American Art Before and After World War II Presentation.
- For Online and Directed Study students, these are Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentations with speaker's notes which support and expand upon your bulleted text.
Format your presentation consistent with APA guidelines and include a slide with all references.
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