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RRMR

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on: Jun 23, 2018
What is the purpose of word play in examples of contemporary visual art?
 
  What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

The alabaster relief of Ashurnasirpal II Killing Lions uses pictorial representation to
 
  a) create propaganda.
  b) narrate the king's biography.
  c) relieve blank wall space.
  d) demonstrate Assyrian artistic skill.


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Reply #1 on: Jun 23, 2018
Answer to Question 1

Answer: The ideal answer should include:
1. The title of Raceing Sideways plays with the identity and orientation of runners aligned in the piece but also suggests the problem of side stepping racial issues.
2. Adrian Piper's calling cards reverse traditional social transactions through printed messages, which are form and function in the artist's process of calling out offenders.
3. Rashid Johnson plays with sources of visual culture by lifting the title for his installation, The Souls of Black Folk, from W. E. B. Du Bois's classic book, turning over the history that work represents.

Answer to Question 2

Answer: a


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