Category: Writing

Reflection Paper #3Topic 1: Rudinow offered a variety of arguments for and against white musicians playing the blues. We also studied several paintings and instillations by white women who may have appropriated the deaths of black men for their own gain. Further, we also discussed the colonial history of exhibiting and displaying native and aboriginal bodies in portraiture and museums, hopefully recognizing the problematic nature of these works and displays. In the end, the point of the essays and the corresponding encounters with these artworks was to highlight the possible ethical quandaries that may arise when artists and museum curators fail to acknowledge their own privileges and historical dependency on other cultures and peoples. Looking to any artwork you chose (even stuff we didn’t discuss) ask if there are ethical limits to the incorporation of other cultures into our art and expression? If so, why? If not, why? You may also chose to explore the question of what responsibilities do present day art-lovers have to rewriting or transforming the artwork that historically oppressed particular cultures, e.g. native or aboriginal works?Topic 2: As many effective altruist would claim, we must abandon ourselves to complete charity and activism in order to safeguard our planet and to care for peoples and cultures in need. Some effective altruists even claimed that art is not something good for itself but only for its consequences. As such art that doesn’t effectively promote social justice may be a waste of time and resources. Please discuss how particular forms of art promote social justice, ease suffering, etc. or how despite not advancing the so-called good, such art is still good for society. Further, you may also discuss the role that art should play in the world today, in business, politics, activism. What role should it play in the humanities and in education?Topic 3: As we saw in both the last unit and this unit, visual art spans a wide spectrum. Utilizing any of the artists we discussed in class ask whether visual art is an effective vehicle for promoting social justice? How might the viewing of art simply lead to complacency or a sense that just by witnessing the art work, you have done some “good”? What does art need to do in order to be effective in promoting social justice rather than being a vehicle for voyeurism?

Provide your thesis statement, which should be in the best interests of all parties involved.
(peer review, safe guard, no plagiarism, use EBSCOhost and/or Opposing Viewpoints. (NO only WEB site sources). Need references and (800-900words). Use 3
rd
person voice in the essay-no ““you” r” statements, and “I” statements.
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