Write an essay on ONE of the following topics:
QUESTION 1
Comment on Linda Nochlin's 'Mart Cassatt's Modernity'. What is particular about her approach there? How does it contrast to other scholarship on Cassatt and Impressionism more generally?
QUESTION 2
Comment on the 'Introduction' to Yve-Alain Bois' Painting as Model, 'Resisting Blackmail'. What is Bois saying there? How does it contrast with other approaches to the discussion of modern art?
QUESTION 3
Comment on Yve-Alain Bois' essay on Cezanne, 'Words and Deeds'. What is Bois saying there? How does it contrast with other approaches to Cezanne's work?
QUESTION 4
Comment on Yve-Alain Bois' 'Kahnweiller's Lesson'. What is Bois saying there? How does it contrast with other approaches to Cubism?
QUESTION 5
Comment on Yve-Alain Bois' essay on Matisse, 'On Matisse: The Blinding'. What is Bois saying there? How does it contrast with other approaches to Matisse?
QUESTION 6
Comment on T.J. Clark's essay 'Jackson Pollock's Abstraction'. What is Clark saying there? How does it contrast with other approaches to Pollock?
QUESTION 7
Comment on the Griselda Pollock's essay 'Modernity and the Spaces of Femininity'. What is Pollock saying there? How does it contrast with other approaches to artistic modernism?
QUESTION 8
The comedian Hannah Gadsby says: "Picasso said, 'You can have all the perspectives at once — from above, from below. All the perspectives at once!' What a hero. But tell me, are any of those perspectives a woman’s? Well, then, I’m not interested". What do you make of what Gadsby says here? How are we to look at and understand Picasso today in the light of a social movement like #metoo?