Main Prompt: What makes this artifact meaningful, significant, and relevant for us (as contemporary viewers in Chicago) today?You will need some amount of library research about the historical and...










Main Prompt: What makes this artifact meaningful, significant, and relevant for us (as contemporary viewers in Chicago) today?











You will need some amount of library research about the historical and cultural context of the object. Try to describe the object in as much detail as possible, talking about its pictorial representations, materials used, techniques of making, scale and proportion etc. You are encouraged to look up particular concepts and visual analytical such as style, form, iconography, narrative, representation, symbolism, technique etc. in the sources listed below to guide your writing.











Your essay must address four aspects of your work with the artifact:














  1. A thorough visual description and visual analysis of the artifact, including a discussion of its technologies and materials of production








  2. The historical, geographical, and cultural context of the artifact. How does the artifact relate to its historical context?








  3. How is the object curated and presented? How does it relate to the other artifacts in the same space? How is the information about the artifact presented in the museum labels?








  4. Working with this cumulative evidence (from the visual analysis, the historical context and the curation of the artifact), what argument or thesis statement can you develop, responding to the prompt: “What makes this artifact meaningful, significant, and relevant for us as contemporary viewers in Chicago today?”





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