The Museum of Modern Art trip is December 11, 2014
See below for Permission Slip
MoMA
Film/Podcast Assignment
Background on the Museum of Modern Art
In the late 1920s, three progressive and influential patrons of the arts, Miss Lillie P. Bliss, Mrs. Cornelius J. Sullivan, and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., perceived a need to challenge the conservative policies of traditional museums and to establish an institution devoted exclusively to modern art. When The Museum of Modern Art was founded in 1929, its founding Director, Alfred H. Barr, Jr., intended the Museum to be dedicated to helping people understand and enjoy the visual arts of our time, and that it might provide New York with "the greatest museum of modern art in the world."
General Background, 1920-30
During the formative years of the museum, Europe is recovering from the aftermath of WWI and is left redefining its political structures with the competing ideologies of communism, fascism, and democracy. An ocean away, America is discovering such European movements as Cubism, Futurism, Expressionism, and Dada. One issue that has to be addressed during this time period is the ongoing American search for an original, national identity, independent of Europe. Aware of themselves as modernists, American artists attempt to ally themselves with the notion of progress. There is no singular approach to this issue of American identity—it is as varied as the culture that produced it.
In understanding the shift from an older European context, disrupted by a war that killed close to 10 million combatants, to the postwar era in America and specifically New York, the 1920s is a seminal period. The decade opens with the aftershocks of WWI and the revolution in Russia, and eventually falls apart in a worldwide depression in 1929. (the year the MOMA opens) If one of the questions implied by the art in any age is: What do these images say about us as human beings and as individuals?, the war called into question the relevance of any and all conventional institutions belonging to the old world.
Assignment
Topic 1
Identify two American works, one from 1900-1950 and the other from 1950-2010, and discuss the emerging and unique American identity and how it changes over time.
Topic 2
In the context of several wars (WWI, WWII, Korea, Vietnam and Iraq/Afghanistan) choose two works from different wars/conflicts that explore human suffering by confronting viewers and forcing them to come face to face with the reality of the failures of “civilized society”.
Video/Film Assignment Details
Due Date: January 9, 2015
Media and format. Must be submitted on a flash drive in a format that can be shown on either a PC or a Mac.
RUBRIC
Examples can be found:
Smarthistory.com (see videos)
http://www.moma.org/explore/multimedia/audios/15
Rubric (each part of the rubric is weighted equally)
See below for Permission Slip
MoMA
Film/Podcast Assignment
Background on the Museum of Modern Art
In the late 1920s, three progressive and influential patrons of the arts, Miss Lillie P. Bliss, Mrs. Cornelius J. Sullivan, and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., perceived a need to challenge the conservative policies of traditional museums and to establish an institution devoted exclusively to modern art. When The Museum of Modern Art was founded in 1929, its founding Director, Alfred H. Barr, Jr., intended the Museum to be dedicated to helping people understand and enjoy the visual arts of our time, and that it might provide New York with "the greatest museum of modern art in the world."
General Background, 1920-30
During the formative years of the museum, Europe is recovering from the aftermath of WWI and is left redefining its political structures with the competing ideologies of communism, fascism, and democracy. An ocean away, America is discovering such European movements as Cubism, Futurism, Expressionism, and Dada. One issue that has to be addressed during this time period is the ongoing American search for an original, national identity, independent of Europe. Aware of themselves as modernists, American artists attempt to ally themselves with the notion of progress. There is no singular approach to this issue of American identity—it is as varied as the culture that produced it.
In understanding the shift from an older European context, disrupted by a war that killed close to 10 million combatants, to the postwar era in America and specifically New York, the 1920s is a seminal period. The decade opens with the aftershocks of WWI and the revolution in Russia, and eventually falls apart in a worldwide depression in 1929. (the year the MOMA opens) If one of the questions implied by the art in any age is: What do these images say about us as human beings and as individuals?, the war called into question the relevance of any and all conventional institutions belonging to the old world.
Assignment
Topic 1
Identify two American works, one from 1900-1950 and the other from 1950-2010, and discuss the emerging and unique American identity and how it changes over time.
Topic 2
In the context of several wars (WWI, WWII, Korea, Vietnam and Iraq/Afghanistan) choose two works from different wars/conflicts that explore human suffering by confronting viewers and forcing them to come face to face with the reality of the failures of “civilized society”.
Video/Film Assignment Details
Due Date: January 9, 2015
- The film/podcast needs to be a minimum of 5 minutes. Maximum of 8 minutes.
Media and format. Must be submitted on a flash drive in a format that can be shown on either a PC or a Mac.
RUBRIC
Examples can be found:
Smarthistory.com (see videos)
http://www.moma.org/explore/multimedia/audios/15
Rubric (each part of the rubric is weighted equally)
- Works fit the theme appropriately
- The works are accurately described, analyzed and interpreted (requires research)
- The works are explained in terms of the times in which they were made
- Use of art historical language
- Presentation and sound quality (makes excellent use of the technology) zooming in when describing a detail, music related to the time the works were made, flows well and is in an order that makes sense.
- Entertaining AND Educational
MoMA Permission Form
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Metropolitan Museum Trip Assignment
The Metropolitan Museum of Art trip
Date : March 12, 2015
Date : March 12, 2015