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Sculpture in Context
We will be learning about the various uses of sculpture. The sculpture that we see in museums has been taken out of its original context – it may have been intended for a church or temple, for a burial site, for a public square, etc. Your assignment is to find a local example of sculpture still in the place for which it was created (in situ). It could be in a cemetery, a public space such as a town common, the lobby of an office building, on or near a government building, etc. It must be something you can see in person for this assignment. Please include a cell phone photograph. If necessary, you can choose to do the assignment online.
In a brief essay of no more than 500 words, fully identify your choice, describe the composition, its medium, where it is, and discuss what its use is – is it funerary, religious, purely decorative, commemorative, etc. Finally, in your opinion, is it successful? If so, why? If not, why not?
Reading Links
Sculpture Techniques: https://www.vam.ac.uk/articles/sculpture-techniques
https://www.getty.edu/education/teachers/classroom_resources/curricula/sculpture/background2.html
Describing sculpture: https://smarthistory.org/describing-sculpture/
Human figure in western sculpture: https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/ap-art-history/start-here-apah/intro-art-history-apah/v/the-body-in-western-sculpture
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