代做Art History

日期：2025-11-22 07:26

This assignment requires students to visit at least one of the two venues (either MOCA [Geffen] or The Brick] to see MONUMENTS, an exhibition of decommissioned and removed post-Civil War Confederate statues paired with contemporary artworks. Before visiting the show you will read: Erika Doss, “Introduction,” Memorial Mania: Public Feeling in America (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010), 1-15. [attached to this module on Brightspace]

Your paper will be 6-8 pages in length and will be a research-driven inquiry/review of one of the decommissioned statues on display in the context of the broader exhibition.

Your paper will consist of the following components:

*An introduction (less than one page), introducing the sculpture you’re focusing on, and articulating your argument/thesis about the sculpture’s appearance/use in the exhibition.

*A brief (no longer than one-page) description of the sculpture you are focusing on. Be sure to include reflections on composition, material.

*A section laying out the historical context of the sculpture’s commission, geographical context, reception, and/or removal.

*Your argument about the sculpture’s appearance/placement in the exhibition. You may want to consider the following: how does the exhibition’s design (and your sculpture’s placement in the exhibition) make an argument about the history and use of this sculpture? How do nearby contemporary projects trouble (if they do!) the history and use of this sculpture? Do you feel it a worthwhile project to exhibit this sculpture in its current form? Why/why not?

*The citation of four scholarly sources outside of the exhibition’s provided didactic texts (i.e. wall labels, titles, etc.) to support various points of your paper and argument. We’ll discuss this aspect of the assignment more in class, but essentially peer-reviewed or primary sources are strongly preferred, with exceptions made on quality of argument/use of source.

One source must be: Kirk Savage, Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves: Race, War, and Monument in Nineteenth-Century America, new ed. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018). [available on JSTOR database]; you may also use Erika Doss’ “Introduction,” in Memorial Mania: Public Feeling in America (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2010) leaving two more sources you must find on your own.

*A photograph or image of the sculpture you are discussing to be included at the end of the paper. This does not count towards a 6-8 page count.

*A title that illuminates your argument/approach in a clear and/or clever way. [i.e. no titles such as “MONUMENTS paper” or “Exhibition Analysis”]. However, a title page is not necessary; if you include one it will not count towards your 6-8 pages of analysis.

*Citations will be made via footnotes, using Chicago Manual of Style. No bibliography at paper’s end is necessary. For Chicago Manual of Style. formatting guidelines, please refer to USC Library Guide (full

access available, log-in required): https://libguides.usc.edu/chicago_style

*Typed, double-spaced, 12 pt. Times New Roman (or comparable) font, standard 1” margins. Include your name on the first page. Staple hard copy.

You will be assessed on the following (see full rubric on Brightspace):

1. Quality and integration of research (40 points)

2. Articulation of argument/thesis (30 points)

3. Clarity of writing [grammar and flow] (20 points)

4. Correct and consistent citation/footnote form. [Chicago Manual of Style] (10 points)