ART
Mini-assignments will be minimum three pages double spaced.
12 point font.
Base on YouTube videos
http://www.artnet.com/artists/shirin-neshat/
Mini Assignment #13
Neshat’s body of work extends beyond identity politics. Cultural critic Eleanor Heartney once said, “Neshat makes art through her identities as an Iranian and as a woman but reshapes them to speak to larger issues of freedom, individuality, and societal oppression.”
Shirin Neshat, Allegiance with Wakefulness 1994
- Artworks’ titles often tell us a great deal about the content of an artwork. What do you think the title of Shirin Neshat’s photograph suggests the artwork is about?
- What do you think the text’s relationship is to the feet and gun?