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Bibliography

Smarthistory- Pergamon altar;

This was about the Pergamon altar, where Athena and Zeus Fought together to take down 2 attackers. The reason I chose it for my project was because of the human emotions that gods and powerful beings show. It’s important because it significantly proves what I want to show with the project.

Met’s Timeline of Art History;

I chose the Met’s timeline of art history because it helps me organize my artwork. I can use it to add credibility if I show how the timeline of history changes over time. It was mainly about Egyptian gods and how they differ from Greek humanism.

Brooklyn Museum website;

I will use this site for insight on statues and representation of gods throughout time. It was mainly about a god named Serapis and how his existence is in correlation with both cultures.

Encyclopedia Britannica;

I will use this site to show how humans change overtime. This article was mostly about the effects of humanism on the world and how it sparked our scientific growth. This is useful because it help wraps up my theme on the difference between the Egyptians and Greeks.

Huffington post- 12 Gifts Ancient Greece Gave To The World;

I use this article because it shows how the Greeks affected our world today. I can get key information on specific effects that they have left us. This also adds credibility as I can point out important things in our society that have came into existence because of humanism.

 

 

Bibliography

Topic: The role of women in ancient art

  1. Cartwright, Mark. “The Role of Women in the Roman World.” Ancient History   Encyclopedia, Ancient History Encyclopedia, 22 Feb. 2014, www.ancient.eu/article/659/the-role-of-women-in-the-roman-world/.

This source is about roles that women have played in the Roman world and provide informative details about women lives in ancient Rome. It also talks about women in mythology, women and the family, women in the wider society, and famous Roman women. This relates to my topic because ancient Rome is another civilization which artwork I would be examined to explore women role in ancient art.

2.  Hemingway, Colette. “Women in Classical Greece.” In Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–.    http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/wmna/hd_wmna.htm (October 2004)

This source talks about Women’s role in Classical Greece; it talks about women’s role from being young girls from all the way to adult women. It provides many details about societal expectation, norms, rules, and belief for a female. Also, draw connections to ancient Greece art, which makes it more relevant to my topic. As I am talking about women in ancient art which also includes Ancient Greece art. This article provides me with background information about Greece society as well as an understanding of women lifestyle in ancient Greek.

3.  Livermore, Melina. “Women in Ancient Times.” Art News Portal, 26 Oct. 2016, www.artnewsportal.com/art-news/women-in-ancient-times.

This source is about Women in the ancient world; it takes a deeper look into history where the depiction of women in art tells a different story than what people assume (women were considered to have their place in the home bearing children, cooking, cleaning and taking care of their spouses). Through examining arts, it reveals a powerful aspect of feminism and women in power in ancient time. This relates to my topic as in my research I’m focusing on ancient understanding art, specifically women portraits in art, this is useful to see all the different views of women in art.

4.    Tate, “Unlock Art: Where are the Women?,” in Smarthistory, January 22, 2016,    accessed December 9, 2018, https://smarthistory.org/unlock-art-where-are-the-women/.

This source is from smarthistory, and it is about female artists role in a male-dominated art world. It displays the history of women in art, exploring how they have been represented, underrepresented, and sometimes misrepresented. It also talks about Guerrilla Girls who have been working to expose sexual and racial discrimination in the art world, particularly in New York, and in the wider cultural arena. This source relates to my topic because I’m talking about women role in art, and it helps me get a more in-depth view of the history of women in art. It also provides connection and shows reasoning for women were being portrayed a certain way in ancient art compared to man.

5.   “A Woman’s Afterlife: Gender Transformation in Ancient Egypt.” Organized by  Edward Bleiberg, Brooklyn Museum: The Dinner Party by Judy Chicago, 15 Dec. 2016, www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/womans_afterlife_ancient_egypt.

This article is about ancient Egyptian women, and the Egyptians believed to make rebirth possible for a deceased woman, she briefly had to turn into a man. This exhibition provided by Brooklyn Museum tells this remarkable story of gender transformation in the ancient world, exploring the differences between male and female access to the afterlife. This source is essential for my project as it is talking about women role in ancient art (my topic), specifically in Egypt and how women were portrayed, as well as belief and rituals associated with women.

 

Bibliography for Final Project.

  1. Aciman, Alexander.“Recapping Dante: Canto 33, or History’s Vaguest Cannibal.”

    The Paris Review, Alexander Aciman ,

    23 June 2014,

    www.theparisreview.org/blog/2014/06/23/recapping-dante-canto-33-or-historys-vaguest-cannibal/.

    When you first look at “Ugolino and His Sons” you can already notice that agony is the emotion expressed in this statue.You see it by the facial features and the body language. Reading the story behind it, made me even more impressed with the way Jean-Baptise Carpeaux captured the emotions of Ugolino and his sons according to their story accurately. Count Ugolino was punished for betraying his city, Pisa, by giving away fortresses to another town. He was locked up in a tower with his sons, when mealtime came, he realized that the doors were being nailed shut, and he also realized him and his sons were going to starve to death. He saw his children suffer from starvation and started to chew on his own fingers. By the time his children were dead, Ugolino was already driven by madness from starvation and started to eat the prisoner that was also there. The story told in this article, for me, further emphasizes how a story with so much tragedy can be depicted in a single work of art. It carries the emotion of it all and that’s why I chose the statue for my project.

  2. Dr. Steven Zucker and Dr. Beth Harris,

    “Giotto, Arena (Scrovegni) Chapel (part 3 of 4),”

    in Smarthistory, December 10, 2015, accessed December 6, 2018,

    In this video, Dr. Steven Zucker and Dr. Beth Harris are in the Arena Chapel in Italy, and one of the paintings that they talk about is the Lamentation painted by Giotto. At first glance, without knowing any context, we see there is a lot of sadness because of the death christ. We see the expressions everyone is wearing and there is a lot of dark and dull colors which adds on to the mood that the painting is giving off. As Dr. Zucker and Dr. Harris begin to talk about the symbolism and the meanings in this painting, the emotion one sees and feels begins to intensify because of the powerful meaning behind the symbolism. One of the things that I felt was extremely powerful was the mention of the tree on the top right. The doctors explain that it might look dead but bring up the fact that it also maybe winters, and it will come to life again when spring comes. They mention that this may also be an analogy to Christ and his eventual resurrection. Another thing that I thought was powerful was the mention of the position Mary, was in. Her knee is propped up holding her deads sons body, she is bending forward, her body is twisted, her arms are also holding him up, and her face expression is of pure sorrow. The doctors conclude that it‘s almost like she is trying to wake him up and is in complete shock of his death and of the way it happened. Once you get context of these things, it brings on a whole new wave of emotion. It‘s very effective.

  3. Farago, Jason.“The African Toll of the Great War, in Song and Shadows.”

    The New York Times, The New York Times, 6 Dec. 2018,

    www.nytimes.com/2018/12/06/arts/design/william-kentridge-park-avenue-armory.html?rref=collection%2Ftimestopic%2FArt∾tion=click&contentCollection=timestopics®ion=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=10&pgtype=collection.

    I wanted to include this because my project has a lot of statue work and paintings. “The Head and the Load,” is a play all about the fallen African soldiers that aren’t commemorated the way European soldier are commemorated. Farago writes, “The Head and the Load,” evokes these porters’ crushing, fatal labor in a long grief-stricken procession, backed by a plangent elegy from the marvelous Guinean singer and kora player N’Faly Kouyaté. The troupe marches one by one in front of Mr. Kentridge’s mucky charcoal animations, carrying cutout placards of flags, boats, gramophones and planes, as well as portrait busts of African intellectuals and an effigy of Raoul Hausmann’s “Mechanical Head,” a Dada artifact of 1919. Their real shadows intermingle with projected ones, creating an infinite funerary march of porters and matériel,” I chose this article because it shows another form of art that is useful in portraying emotion in the story it is telling. It doesn’t all have to a still-life work of art to be empathetic. Dialogue, costumes, and music can also be effective. 

  4. Hyman, Erin Williams.

    “Crouching Woman, Hidden Story: Erin Hyman on Kiki Smith’s Lilith.” 

    Open Space, 18 Sept. 2013,

    openspace.sfmoma.org/2013/09/beyond-belief-erin-hyman/.

    “Lilith” is one of my favorite sculptures of all time. She breaks boundaries, and I just love her unique story. Upon looking at this, someone can easily get spooked out. Everything about her is just weird and eerie, the position she is in, the roughness of her body, and lastly, the most terrifying thing about her, is her eyes. Her eyes are the only light colored part of her body and they are made of glass which makes her even more scarier because it’s almost as if she is staring right at you. Although you are creeped out, you also can’t help but feel curiosity. Before Eve was created from Adam’s rib, God had created man and women from dust. That women being Lilith, because both of them were made from dust, Lilith saw herself as Adam’s equal and did not want to be submissive to him. She fled Eden and wandered the earth punishing men and stealing babies. This is impressive because we see a break from the type of woman we usually see in art. We usually see some sort of fragility and softness in their face or in their pose in but here we the exact opposite. We see her body parts covered by her pose, we see the unevenness on her, and we she is just unearthly in every way. Hyman writes, “The sculpture of Lilith, like the morphing stories that have evolved around her name, remains wild, suspended, resisting any attempt to pin her down,” This fits to my theme because it is representing emotion and a story, but in a different way. It represents femininity in its genesis and firmness. Everything about “Lilith” is amazing. 

  5. Olere, David.

“Gassing.”

A Teachers Guide to the Holocaust,

fcit.usf.edu/holocaust/gallery2/D54.htm.

This painting is very hard to look at and to take in. Unfortunately, this painting does depict a reality. This shows Jews in a gas chamber in their final moments. Art is filled with a lot of mythology, but it is also filled with a lot of heartbreaking truths. Art is unfiltered and unapologetic and although it is horrifying, it is important for pieces like this to exist, because things like this cannot be forgotten. The extermination of six-million Jews was one of the most atrocious things that has happened in history and one of the most disturbing things about the Holocaust was the fact that many people were aware about these killings but nothing was done for a while. In the painting, we see the ghostly figures of Jews who actually looked like that because of the extreme starvation they were put through, we see them all crammed up, we see woman and babies included, and their faces of absolute agony. In the bottom right corner, we also see a can that says Zyklon B with the Star of David right next to it as if it was carved on the floor. Nazi’s would cram so many Jews in a small chamber and poor the murderous gas inside. This is another perfect example of a painting that creates such heartbreaking emotion and makes you empathize along with it.