Pop Paper Prompts (content of the paper)
• You will write what Otis calls an I-Search paper guided by your particular interests in relation to Pop or post-Pop art. Some questions you might consider if you chose to discuss the work of specific artists are: What did they produce? What was characteristic about what they produced? What themes recur in their work? What materials and techniques?
• Concentrate on issue raised by the works you want to write about.
• Discuss your research methods and process.
• Your job will be to get as much information about your topic as you can and to write a paper that places it in a cultural/historical context. Context: What was going on around them, in the art world and outside of it? What were they reacting to? Who influenced them? What artists? What theories? What events?
• You will need a MINIMUM of two sources NOT from your course readings.
• You will write the paper in two stages. You will first write a draft paper, to which I will append comments about what further reading you might have to do and what improvements might be necessary. Then, taking my directions into consideration, you will proceed to write the final paper.
Artists you might want to consider (in no particular order)
Jasper Johns
Robert Rauschenberg
Claes Oldenberg
Andy Warhol
James Rosenquist
Sturtevant
Roy Lichtenstein
Marisol
Niki de Saint-Phalle
Ed Ruscha
Edwardo Paolozzi
Richard Hamilton
Wayne Thiebaud
Gerhard Richter
Sigmar Polke
Wolf Vostell
John Wesley
Tom Wesselmann
Richard Prince
Jeff Koons
Sherrie Levine
Kelley Walker
John Wesley
Billy Al Bengston
Peter Saul
Jess Collins
Robert Longo
Cindy Sherman
Dana Birnbaum
Gillian Wearing
Mat Colishaw
Angus Fairhirst
Damian Hirst
Tracey Emin
Takashi Murakami
Adam McEwen
Darren Bader
This list is not exhaustive but it should be enough to start you off. If there’s a particular artist you think should be included in it, let me know.
Pop Paper mechanics
5-6 pages, 1250-1500 words*, posted and submitted to your Learning ePortfolio along with an annotated bibliography of at least 2 sources, a Works Cited Page and all necessary images and links. Because you are writing in a digital format, pay attention to how your paper looks and the kind of visual rhetoric that it communicates.
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