This segment of the web site for Art 103: Approaches to Western Art History for the Autumn 1996 semester provides representative examples of projects students have submitted in the course.

Project I. What is a Work of Art

What is a "work of art"?

This assignment has two parts:

1. Go into the Allen Memorial Art Museum, select a "work of art" and write a short (250 words or less) justification for your choice.

2. Select one "work of art" outside of any museum or gallery and write a short (250 words or less) justification for your choice.


ART 103 - Section 01

WORKS OF ART IN THE AMAM

Nevelson, Louise - "Box with a Door"
Coxie, Michael - "Portrait of Christina of Denmark"
Tettibone, Richard - "Lavender Disaster"
Jefferson, Joseph - "Rip Van Winkel's Nook in the Catskills"
Kirchner, Ernst - "Self-Portrait of a Soldier"
Kirchner, Ernst - "Standing Female Nude"
Arnoldi, Chuck - "Untitled"
Green, Renee - "Sa Main Charmante"
Neel, Alice - "Portrait of Ellen Johnson"
Dubreuil, Victor - "Is It Real?"
Arp, Jean - "Chateau d'Oiseaux"
Warhol, Andy - "Jackie"
Church, Frederick - "The Letter Revenge"
Barthelme, Paul-Albert - "Girl Crouching (Grief)"
Kokoschka, Oskar - "Spozalizio"
Jorquot, Charles - "The Angelus"
Arman - "Paint Tube Cube"

WORKS OF ART OUTSIDE THE AMAM

personal signature on a trash bin in Tappan Square
willow tree by the AMAM
human manipulation of nature
Chagall, Marc - "I and the Village"
Tappan Square
wall hanging in Bailey Hall
Peters Hall (x x x)
photographic postcard
wood floor of Warner Main
Magritte, Renee - "Portrait"
personal doodle
black and white photograph in a frame painted by Lindsey Schell
Church of St. Francis at Assisi
Herb Garden outside the AMAM
Tamayo, Rufino - "Musicas Dormidas"

ART 103 - Section 02

WORKS OF ART IN THE AMAM

Greek vase - "Black-Figure Amphora Depicting Satyrs Carrying off a Maenad"
Native American - "Peace Pipe"
Moore, Henry - "Reclining Figure"
Kokoschka, Oskar - "Spozalizio" (x x)
Tiffany Studios - "Glass and Silver Vase in the form of a Lily" (x x)
Louis, Morris - "Feh"
Neel, Alice - "Portrait of Ellen Johnson"
Johnson, Ray - "Twelve Elaine de Koonings"
Cole, Willie - "Proctor Silex (Evidence and Presence)"
late XV century stucco relief - "Madonna and Child"
Barthelme, Paul-Albert - "Girl Crouching (Grief)" (x x)
Bergeret, Pierre-Nolasque - "Honors Rendered to Raphael on his Deathbed"
Beuys, Joseph - "Suit of Clothes"
Cornell, Joseph - "Phases of the Moon"
Irwin, Robert - "Untitled, 1980 - 81"
Egyptian relief - "Fragment of a Man Holding a Vase"
Wright, Joseph - "Dove Dale by Moonlight"
archway leading into the southern end of the courtyard

WORKS OF ART OUTSIDE THE AMAM

Escher, M. C. - "Relativity"
Savage Field, Oberlin College
personal calligraphy scroll
fountain outside the AMAM
flyer for a punk rock/oi show in NYC drawn by Matt Jourdain
Scott, Ridley - "Blade Runner"
interior of my new apartment
cover for the Rock for Choice album "Cause"
student mural in the Biology Section of Kettering Hall
a photograph I took of my sister
Woodrow, Bill - "Sitting on History I"
Peters Hall
the tree in the front yard of Tank Co-op
a dessert (lemon souffle with blackberry sauce) from the Pacifica del Mar restaurant in southern California
a piece of printed cloth from India
the "Underground Railroad" sculpture in front of Talcott Hall
Christo - "Valley Curtain"
Finney Chapel
"crayola couches" in Mudd Library
an advertisement for Absolut vodka
painting of a young man in Mudd Library
Herb Garden outside the AMAM

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Last modified: 12 September 1996