ARTH 120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Chauvet Cave, Lascaux, Marcel Breuer

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Art History
• Course: ARTH 120
• Professor: Una D' Elia

Document Summary

Strike a pose assignment: pick a work of sculpture depicting a person studied in the course thus far and illustrated in janson a(cid:374)d sta(cid:374)d (cid:894)o(cid:396) sit o(cid:396) (cid:396)e(cid:272)li(cid:374)e o(cid:396) ) in the pose yourself. Have a friend photograph you in this position (obviously wearing clothes, even if the sculpture does not depict any) and compare the sculpture to your reconstruction of the pose. Write a one-page (typed, double-spaced 12-point font, 1 inch margins) response, making clear which work you have selected and what taking the pose yourself revealed about the sculpture. Be specific, avoiding vague impressions of how this makes you feel. Instead, give detailed observations about the mechanics of the pose, stresses and strains, explaining which parts of the body are effected in which ways. Use this experiment in order to make specific observations about the sculpture. Organize your thoughts into grammatically correct sentences and paragraphs. Be concise and edit rigorously for typos and repetition.