1. Landscape, Nature and Art
Assessment Overview

2. Writing about Art
What do you see? What are you looking at?
What do you think?
What do you feel?
And why? What makes you think and feel this way?
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Writing Assignment 1:
Response to the work on art on the next slide
(300 words, typed)
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Due: tomorrow after the lecture (2014–10-09)

3. 4 Pleasures of the Imagination: Connoisseur (1986)
Karen Knorr (German-born
US American, b. 1954)
Cibachrome print, 115 x 115 cm
Interim Art, London (UK)

4. Assignment: Lexicon (dictionary, book or list of words) Word or phrase
Definition
3 sample sentences
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Example
Word: Wilderness (noun)
Definition
an uncultivated, uninhabited, and inhospitable region
a neglected or abandoned area
Sample Sentences:
The garden has turned into a wilderness of weeds.
Romantic artists were fascinated by the wilderness.
The American wilderness is disappearing.

5. Assignment: 15-minute Group Presentation (PowerPoint) involving research on a given theme
Detailed instructions given on Oct. 15
Due during final group seminars, Oct. 22
Themes
Town and Country
Taste and Feeling
Soil and Spirit
Civilization and Wilderness
Picture and Process
Documentation and Preservation
Elitism and Consumerism
Habitat and Environment
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