Answer each question separately and in a specific manner by making specific connections between this week assigned readings/ videos and your reflection. Please add in-text citations and/or reference(s) when necessary from CH. 11 of the textbook.
Reading Questions
- One way censorship can happen is when the expression is silent or invisible to others. Yet some expression is faint because both the structures of the mainstream press and broadcasting and the dynamics of social networking tend to favor some voices, some images, over others. Explore the internet and find what you think is a worthwhile ARTISTIC EXPRESSION from somewhere in the world that you are unfamiliar with. Post a link and describe both why you think the work is valuable, and why you think it is being overlooked by people.
- Should certain types of art be censored? Explain your answer and select at least two examples to assist in clarifying your statement. Give an opposing response with justifications and select works to describe and clarify your opinion.
- Describe one way appropriation has become acceptable in contemporary art. What does it mean when some contemporary artists question what is an “original” work of art, and what is a “reproduction?” Why is it important that news photographs not be altered?
- What concepts was Damien Hirst exploring in using butterflies in his artwork? What did the butterflies symbolize for Hirst? What was the ethical dilemma photojournalist Kevin Carter faced when he photographed a child during the 1993 famine in Sudan?
- Describe how claims of “copyright” and “fair use” came into play in relation to Shepard Fairey’s portrait of Barack Obama.
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