Word count at least 400

Please download and use the Reading Response Template (see attached file) to format your responses.

ENTRY 1:

Title: The Body in Contemporary Art (see attached file) (Introduction, pp. 6-15 and Chapter 2, pp. 49-77)

Author: Sally O'Reilly

ENTRY 2:

Title: “Performing” Chapter 4 from Art in the Making(see attached file )(pp. 90-110)

Author: Julia Bryan Wilson and Glenn Adamson

Criteria for Success:

Please make sure you discuss at least two specific references to content from the readings in your responses. We need to see evidence that you have read/viewed all materials and engaged with the core messages/themes of each reading. For example, if one entry asks you to both read an interview with an artist and look at their project website, please make sure you discuss things present in both those sources.

Please focus your attention on the core messages or themes in the reading, as they relate to some aspect of artistic process and materiality, creativity, the dynamics of the art world, ideas about art, themes in art, etc. Essentially, I'm asking you to avoid writing about mental tangents that take you away from a focus on art, which is of course the topic of this class, and central to each of the assigned readings. Many of the artists/artworks you read about will deal with broader topics not directly related to art - please make sure you are responding not just to the topics addressed by the artists/artworks, but how their art or the themes about art present in the reading relate to the broader topics.

Please do not use your writing to simply summarize or restate what the reading was about without giving any personalized response or interpretation (this will disqualify you from full points!). Please instead foreground your own original thinking, questions and reflections about the content. Take your initial or superficial reactions always one step further in complexity. For example, if something surprises you, spend the time reflecting on and explaining why it is surprising - what previous assumptions of yours did the passage shake up, WHY? Always be specific and relate your reflections back to the content of the reading!