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VALUES AND AUTHORITY: ART AS SOCIAL LANGUAGE
The Honors College at FIU
John Bailly, Fellow
AESTHETICS AND VALUES RESEARCH AND EXHIBITION PROJECT
Leah Dunleavy and Wendy Wischer during the installation of A&V 2007
GUIDELINES FOR STUDENT-CURATOR PAPERS ABOUT MIAMI ARTISTS
Below are loose guidelines to help student-curators with their papers about their selected artists. These are meant to as suggestions and questions all students should consider when writing their papers. Students, however, are offered considerable freedom in the structure of their individual papers. They can emphasize certain points, as well as introduce others.
- Provide biographical information about the artist (origin, education, cultural heritage,...)
- Interview the artist! This is required. Include quotes that you have obtained directly from the artist.
- Mention key figures of personal importance (teachers, mentors, friends,...)
- Place the artist's work in a art historical context (direct and indriect influences)
- Place the work in a cultural context
- Place the work in a contemporary context (Does the artist identify with a particular artistic movement?)
- Describe how the artist uses the formal elements of art (line, shape, form, texture, color, composition)
- How do the formal elements relate to the content of the artist's work?
- Mention changes the artist's work has undergone (both conceptual and stylistic)
- Describe the current work the artist in doing. Is it unique? Innovative? How?
- How does the artist's work relate to a broader social and cultural context?
- What was your experience working with the artist?
Student-Curators have two choices. They can either write an individual minimum 8 page paper, or do a coauthored paper. When coauthoring a paper, each student must write a minimum of 5 pages (ex. 2 authors would equal a minimum 10 pages, 3 would be 15, and so forth).
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