What is the difference between Art and Craft? How have museums and galleries historically distinguished these two categories? Do you think the categorization reveals racial, gender, and ethnicity bias? Are Western men more often classified (and successful) as artists? Are women and non-westerners more often considered craftsmen?
Compare and Contrast the Eagle Transformation Mask of the Kwakiutl Native Americans (Gateways 442) to the Kanaga mask from Dogon culture (Gateways 450). How do these reveal different perspectives on the relationship between mankind and environment? Can you find a work of art that you believe is representative of America’s relationship to nature? Discuss why/how it shows America’s relationship to nature? Please make sure to answer all topic questions as well as the artwork of your choice.
The guidelines for this assignment are:
Your response must include three well-developed paragraphs answering the topic questions.
Your first paragraph should answer all the questions about the differences between Art and Craft. The second and third paragraph should be about Comparing and Contrasting the Eagle Transformation Mask of the Kwakiutl Native Americans (Gateways 442) to the Kanaga mask from Dogon culture (Gateways 450).
Your post should be cited in APA format with credible and scholarly sources. You may use your textbook as a source. Remember to cite all direct quotes and paraphrased material with proper APA in-text citations in the paragraphs. At the bottom of your submission (right below your paragraphs), you must include an APA style bibliography of all the sources you used.
Your submission should be free of grammar, content, and style errors.
