ARTS 125 Week 1 Shifting Views of America Assignment Options

Resources: Review your Week 1 readings and videos.

For your Week 1 Assignment, choose one of the options listed below.

Option A

Write a 700- to 1,050-word paper (Word count is based on only the body of the paper. Word count does not include the text on the title or reference pages.) on how art reflects the society in which it was made that responds to the following:

• What image of America was communicated by the innovations and buildings presented at the 1883 Chicago’s World Fair? How was this image communicated?
• How and why was the art produced by the Ashcan School different from that of the Gilded Age? To what changes in social history were artists reacting?
• How is art a reflection of society? Explain with at least two examples to illustrate the relationship between art and society. These two examples may be from the text or of your own selection. Discuss the subject or theme of your selected works.

Add “Option A” to the title of your assignment.

Submit the contents of your paper to Grammarly. Make edits to grammar, punctuation, and mechanics based on the feedback from Grammarly.

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.

Upload your paper in a Microsoft® Word document to the Plagiarism Checker and save the Turnitin report or take a screenshot of the report and insert it into a Microsoft® Word document.

Submit the Plagiarism Checker report as an attachment when submitting your assignment.

Submit your assignment in a Microsoft® Word document using the Assignment Files tab above.

Verify that TWO attachments (Plagiarism Checker report and the assignment) were successfully submitted.

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Option B

Create a timeline of 7 milestones (works of art or buildings) in art and architecture that illustrate the transition from the Gilded Age to the era of the Ashcan artists. Each of your 7 works of art or buildings selected for your milestones must be accompanied by a 90- to 175-word (Word count is based on only the body of the paper. Word count does not include the text on the title or reference pages.) description addressing the following:

• How is your milestone reflective of society of the late 19th century? (minimum of 30 words)
• How is your selected work representative of either the Gilded Age, or the early modernist era as embodied by the Ashcan School? (minimum of 30 words)
• What is the subject or theme of your selected work? How is this theme representative of American society? (minimum of 30 words)

Each of the questions above must be answered is separate sentences for each milestone. You may submit your timeline in a Word document, PowerPoint® or use another tool such as Timetoast or Timeline JS. Regardless of the tool used to create the assignment, you will need to insert your answers to the questions above into a Word document, upload your paper in a Microsoft® Word document to the Plagiarism Checker, and then save the Turnitin report or take a screenshot of the report and insert it into a Microsoft® Word document.

Add “Option B” to the title of your assignment.

Format your assignment according to appropriate course level APA guidelines.

Upload your paper in a Microsoft® Word document to the Plagiarism Checker and save the Turnitin report or take a screenshot of the report and insert it into a Microsoft® Word document.

Submit the Plagiarism Checker report as an attachment when submitting your assignment.

Submit your assignment using the Assignment Files tab above.

Verify that TWO attachments (Plagiarism Checker report and the assignment) were successfully submitted.

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Option C

Choose one of the following works for discussion of a theme present in the Week 1, Ch. 5 and 6 readings:

• The sculptures commemorating the Haymarket Square incident
• The Statue of Liberty
• The Court of Honor or “White City” of the Chicago World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893
• Mary Cassatt’s Modern Woman
• Henry Tanner Ossawa’s The Banjo Lesson
• A painting or print by John Sloan

Discuss the theme (subject) of the work and address the following in a 700- to 1,050-word (Word count is based on only the body of the paper. Word count does not include the text on the title or reference pages.) paper:

• What is the context in which the work was created? How was it reflective of the social changes underway during this era?
• What was the subject or message of the work, and why was it important to the artist to create? What ideas or points of view was the artist communicating with their work?
• How was the work representative of the values of either the Gilded Age or the Ashcan School artists?

Add “Option C” to the title of your assignment.

Submit the contents of your paper to Grammarly. Make edits to grammar, punctuation, and mechanics based on the feedback from Grammarly.

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.

Upload your paper in a Microsoft® Word document to the Plagiarism Checker and save the Turnitin report or take a screenshot of the report and insert it into a Microsoft® Word document.

Submit the Plagiarism Checker report as an attachment when submitting your assignment.

Submit your assignment in a Microsoft® Word document using the Assignment Files tab above.

Verify that TWO attachments (Plagiarism Checker report and the assignment) were successfully submitted.