Wednesday 18 November 2009

Portfolio Task 2


Summarise the text Harrison, C and Wood, P. (eds.) (1997) 'Art In Theory: 1900-90', Oxford, Blackwell, pp. 125-9.

Write no more than a few paragraphs but try to include what you see as the five key points that the authors are trying to communicate about Modernity and various Modernists subsequent responses to the condition of Modernity.

Include a bibliographic Harvard reference for the text at the end.

Friday 6 November 2009

Image Analysis Exercise (Portfolio Task 1)



WRITE A 500 WORD COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE TWO IMAGES BELOW. PUBLISH YOUR ANALYSIS TO YOUR CONTEXTUAL & THEORETICAL STUDIES BLOG (by the time of your next CTS group tutorial- w/c 16 NOV at the latest)

'The Uncle Sam Range' (1876) advertising image by Shumacher & Ettlinger, New york

Poster by Saville Lumley (1915)


Compare and contrast the two images in relation to the following-
a) The choice and organisation of font and style of illustration
b) The purpose and meaning of the image
c) The intended audience of the image
d) The social and historical context of the image, such as social values at the time