art question anwser

 Instructions:
Each of your responses will be graded not only for its mastery of content, but also upon its efficacy as an academic essay.  As such, it is expected that each response include an introduction with a thesis statement, body paragraphs which build upon each other, and a conclusion.  Additionally, it is imperative that you use precise information when supporting your claims – remember to always cite your sources. Finally, proofread and edit your responses to ensure that your writing is clear, concise, and fully answers the prompt. Please do not plagiarize from the web. We check and if we do discover plagiarism we will immediately report it. 
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Formatting Papers:

400 words minimum (2 page maximum) response per prompt (1200 word minimum in total for all three responses)

Number your essays so that we understand which prompt (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6) you are answering
List all citations on a separate page, keeping the works cited page specific to and directly after each prompt question response (3 separate works cited pages)
Helvetica or Times New Roman, 12 point
Double spaced
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Saved as .pdf

Please choose three of these six questions to answer. EACH answer must be at least four paragraphs (400 words) but no longer than two pages. Each page should be double spaced, Times, 12pt.

What does “What you do to the land you do to your body” mean and where did it come from? (Some independent research might be necessary here.) Discuss three artists whose artwork directly addresses the concepts in this statement. In your answer be sure to describe at least one artwork by each artist and clearly state how the artworks relate to the statement. 
Pick one environmental artist (eco-artist) that has been part of the modules so far. Do some outside research on them and explore their website and artworks. Choose one of their artworks to discuss, paying careful attention to choose one that has not mentioned so far in the readings/interviews/modules. Clearly state what materials and methods they use to make their artwork. Describe what influenced the artwork. Explain how this work can be or is considered environmental art? Use Linda Weintraub’s readings to help you to define environmental art (eco-art) and defend your arguments as to how the work can be considered environmental art. Also look at other writings and articles to help understand and explain the context in which the artist makes their work. 
How have different artists used walking to activate connections to land/landscape and how can artists represent an environmental issue through walking? Please name at least 2 specific artists we have discussed in class and cite examples of their walking pieces. Describe how these artists use embodiment in their work and are they effective in terms of heightening awareness of the environment? Refer to Rebecca Solnit’s “The Mind at Three Miles and Hour” to inform your thinking. How is walking relevant (or irrelevant) to environmental art? Be specific and discuss artists’ work that you have seen or read about in class. For example, you might discuss how Yolande Harris’s walking piece or Richard Long’s work heightens awareness and relates to Solnit’s text.
What is Earth Art (as described in our readings, interviews and in the film the Troublemakers) in comparison to Environmental or Ecological Art? Compare and contrast these two art categories. How are they both similar and different? What goals do they attempt to achieve? Are they successful or not? Then, compare and contrast Smithson’s “Monuments of Passaic” to Newton Harrison’s Future Garden project. Use the Harrisons’ writing from the Force Majeure and compare/contrast it with Robert Smithson’s essay. Also feel free to discuss the Serpentine Lattice or the Santa Fe Drain Basin videos (both can be found on the Harrisons’ website), with the Troublemakers (which is available on the library’s Kanopy media collection). To avoid writing the same paper as the first response paper, feel free to focus only on the Harrison’s “Serpentine Lattice” vs Smithson’s “Monuments of Passaic.” You can compare and contrast the two different strategies and how the artist’s works reflect those strategies. 
How do affect and empathy function in environmental art? Compare and contrast the work of Kathy High with Natasha Meyers’ Sensing Botanical Sensoria. Feel free to mention some of the work made by artists who are working with plants and/or animals who create empathy with the animal or plant worlds. Why is this important? How have environmental artists used empathy and feeling in their work and why? Is this an effective strategy? Be specific in your answers.
What role to galleries, curators and spaces such as the UC Reserves play in terms of presenting both Earth Artists, Ecological and Environmental Artists to audiences. Why are they important or not? Name three different art exhibition strategies that exhibition spaces use to show work and discuss how they are or are not effective in terms of presenting artists to the public at large. Which of these galleries/spaces would you like to show your work in and why? Be very specific in naming the places and the artists that they show. Feel free to also talk about the role of archives as well but if you do, name the archives you are talking about.

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