Field Trip #4: The Brooklyn Museum

DUE: 11/11

For our fourth field trip, we will be visiting the Brooklyn Museum. This is one of the oldest and largest museums in the country. They boast a robust collection of work that ranges from ancient Egyptian and African art to contemporary art. In addition to their permanent collection, they stage many interesting special exhibitions.

At the museum, we will concentrate on three special exhibitions: “Youth and Beauty: Art of the American Twenties”, “Sanford Biggers: Sweet Funk-An Introspective” and “Timothy Greenfield Sanders: The Latino List”. Each of these exhibits deals with the issue of identity. Identity can be individual, it can be cultural, and it is almost certainly based in a specific time and place.

For your writing, select three works of art (one work from each show), that you feel best defines the idea of identity, as it relates to its exhibit. Here are some questions to consider in your writing: How does each work of art best sum-up the idea of identity for its represented show? Can you define these different identities? Do your works of art define identities that are personal or cultural, or a mixture of both? How does the place and time of each work of art affect its notion of identity? How do these notions of identity differ between the works of art that you chose? How are they similar?

Your finished writing needs to be at least 250 words. Post the writing on your Blogger page under the title, “Brooklyn Museum Reaction”, and label the post “Field Trip 4”.

At the end of your post, cite the three artworks that you chose in the following format. This information is generally available on the wall near the artwork:

Artist’s Full Name

“Title of Work” (written in quotations)*

Year Completed

*When referencing the work in the body of your writing, also be sure to write the titles in quotations.