Exhibition Worksheet: MONUMENTS

Please read a lot of information online about the This assignment asks you to review of the exhibition MONUMENTS at MOCA. Please answer the following questions. Your review should be 2-3 pages long. You can draw on course readings to help you answer the questions. You can simply answer each question; you don’t need to write this up as a paper.

1. Provide an overview of the exhibition theme and content. What is the experience of visiting like? How is the exhibition organized, and what does it consist of?

2. Choose two works of art or juxtapositions that you found really interesting or meaningful. Describe them. Reflect on them, and explain why they are meaningful.

3. We’ve talked a lot about statues and monuments in this course. Has this exhibition furthered, challenged, or changed your thinking on these issues? What are the scholarly conversations that this exhibition engages with? Please reference at least one academic text from the course.

4. If a friend asked you whether they should visit the exhibition, what would you tell them, and why?

an example I found

A. Kara Walker Monumental Shadow Forms

One of the most powerful works in the exhibition is by Kara Walker, known for her large-scale black silhouette installations. Though flat and seemingly delicate, her figures depict violent and traumatic scenes from the history of slavery and racial exploitation in the United States.

What makes this monumental?

  • The scale: The silhouettes stretch across walls.

Requirements: 2-3 pages long

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