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IVT105

Reading Review Assignment for PDF #3

On Meaning (in Art), excerpts from The Critique Handbook, Kendall Buster and Paula Crawford

NOTE: To get a good grade on this assignment you must answer each question as fully as possible. Don’t just jot down fragmented ideas or only quote back what the text says. Strive for clear explanations using examples. Each question below should be no less than a half a page each.

Answer the following questions:

1. Buster makes the distinction between denotative meaning in art (subject matter) and connotative meaning in art (content). Conduct some online research (go beyond dictionary definitions) and write a complete definition for these two terms and offer up art examples for each.

2. According to Buster, what is opaque and transparent expression in language (use examples) (hint: read carefully, opaque expression in not just another way of saying connotative.)

3. According to Buster, what is opaque and transparent expression in painting? How does opaque and transparent expression in painting relate to Buster’s notion of opaque and transparent expression in language? (Hint: Yes, there is a connection that is why she uses the same words …read carefully, why is a DeKooning more like a poem?)

Submit: This assignment, prefaced by this assignment page should be printed for your notebooks.