Art in the 1500
Time Period Paper Assignment
Min: 4 pages, double spaced with a Works Cited and/or Bibliography
Format: MLA. I will post an example under “Sample Assignments”
# of Sources: Min. of 3 Academic/Scholarly Sources. Use the library databases or make an appt. with an ACC reference librarian to help with your sources.
Due Date: _____________________________
You will choose a time period from the 1500’s to the 2000’s:
Research what was going socially, politically, economically during that time period
You are then going to write a paper analyzing the time period and whatever topic you have chosen trying to express the connection between time, place and societal happenings and an aspect of the Humanities.Ex. Talk about an art movement etc, that occurred during the time period you choose.
You might want to go the route of picking out songs that were popular during the time and analyze how the lyrics reflect the sentiment of the time. You might want to pick a film like Easy Rider and tell why you think it represents the mindset of freedom of the open road and restlessness of the sixties. Another idea you might try is research a type of music and how it reflected the time period. An example of this is to look at the jazz music in the 1920’s and tell about it represented a frenetic energy of time.
You could look at how teens dressed in the fifties in comparison to how they began to dress in the sixties and explain what was going on in the different decades to cause the difference. There are many different angles to go with on this assignment. The main thing you want to get out of this is how music, fashion, art, literature etc. reflect what is going on in society at a given time period. You might want to even look at when a certain type of art began and see if there was anything going during that time in the art realm that made print making a much needed art form.
You could look at a style of art such as graffiti or performance art and see when and where it began
Min: 4 pages, double spaced with a Works Cited and/or Bibliography
Format: MLA. I will post an example under “Sample Assignments”
# of Sources: Min. of 3 Academic/Scholarly Sources. Use the library databases or make an appt. with an ACC reference librarian to help with your sources.
Due Date: _____________________________
You will choose a time period from the 1500’s to the 2000’s:
Research what was going socially, politically, economically during that time period
You are then going to write a paper analyzing the time period and whatever topic you have chosen trying to express the connection between time, place and societal happenings and an aspect of the Humanities.Ex. Talk about an art movement etc, that occurred during the time period you choose.
You might want to go the route of picking out songs that were popular during the time and analyze how the lyrics reflect the sentiment of the time. You might want to pick a film like Easy Rider and tell why you think it represents the mindset of freedom of the open road and restlessness of the sixties. Another idea you might try is research a type of music and how it reflected the time period. An example of this is to look at the jazz music in the 1920’s and tell about it represented a frenetic energy of time.
You could look at how teens dressed in the fifties in comparison to how they began to dress in the sixties and explain what was going on in the different decades to cause the difference. There are many different angles to go with on this assignment. The main thing you want to get out of this is how music, fashion, art, literature etc. reflect what is going on in society at a given time period. You might want to even look at when a certain type of art began and see if there was anything going during that time in the art realm that made print making a much needed art form.
You could look at a style of art such as graffiti or performance art and see when and where it began