ANALYZING HUMANITIES DURING THE INFORMATION AGE

Describe the historical context or events that influenced the artist or the creation of the work.

Analyze how this work reflects the technological innovations or innovative thinking from the period in which it was created.

Analyze how the work represents the community it was created for or about.

analyze how the work challenged ideas about the culture represented or what constitutes artistic expression.

UJM1 Task 2
Global Arts and Humanities
Task 2 List of Works
Choose one work from the accepted works in the following list:
Literature
Pablo Neruda (Chilean/poet)
• “Sonnet XVII” (“I do not love you”), Poem, 1959.
• “The Heights of Machu Picchu,” Poem in 12 cantos, 1944.
Léopold Senghor (Senegalese/poet)
• “Assassinations,” Poem, 1948.
• “To the Senegalese Riflemen Who Died for France,” Poem, 1938.
Maya Angelou (American/poet)
• “Still I Rise,” Poem, 1978.
• “Caged Bird,” Poem, 1983.
Art
Dario Robleto (American/artist, writer)
• An Instinct towards Life Only a Phantom Can Know, Sculpture, 2007.
• Methuselah in Her Cradle, Sculpture, 2019.
Kura Te Waru Rewiri (New Zealand/painter, sculptor)
• Whenua/Wahine/Whenua (Land/Woman/Land), Painting, 1989.
• Keeping the Soul Black Elk, Painting, 2001.
Banksy (British/artist)
• Girl with Balloon, Painted Series, 2002.
• Hammer Boy, Street Art, 2013.
Photography
Gerda Taro (German-Jewish/photographer)
• People talking on street, Madrid, 1937.
• Republican militiawoman training on the beach, outside Barcelona, 1936.
Robert Mapplethorpe (American/photographer)
• Calla Lily 1988.
• Belly Button 1986.
Sebastião Salgado (Brazilian/photographer)
• Church Gate, Bombay, India, 1995.
• Men of Zo’é ethnicity, Brazil, 2009.
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