Ohio State University How Art Is Politically Influential Essay

Assignment Details: (read these directions carefully!)

Essays:

• The essays for this class have specific prompts. Make sure that you read the questions carefully and consider your answers.

• You must reference and cite the readings that you have chosen to discuss in your Essays

• Essays must be at least 350 words in length

Topic: Political Art

Read:

• Is Art for Pleasure or for Politics?

https://www.cnn.com/style/article/intelligence-squared-is-art-for-pleasure-or-politics/index.html

• Politics and Art

https://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199935307.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780199935307-e-13

Watch:

• Cases for Political Art

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfXad3HVox4

• Art of the Campaign: The Politics of Color Theory

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ca5mkwPn23g

• Political Art (this one is addressed to students at CalPoli, but works well for us too)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWnJWIX_B5E

Essay 5 Prompts: Shepard Fairey produced well know works in America, such as Obey Giant and Barak Obama’s Presidential Campaign image. Take a look at some of the works that he has created, and others from artists discussed in the Political Art YouTube video. Explain how art can be politically influential using the readings and the videos to support your discussion.