What does it seek to communicate? What makes it interesting both thematically and formally?

1. Basic Facts and Visual analysis (25 points): Tell the reader what object is to be the focus of your paper, provide basic factual information about it. Then translate what you see into an analytical narrative description that takes into account both form and content. What does it seek to communicate? What makes it interesting both thematically and formally? What is represented? What overall impression or effect does the image or object make or have on the viewer? How did the maker use form, materials, and techniques to achieve this 2. Research proposal (25 points): Outline the reason why you have selected the object, what it is you want to find out about it (the questions it raises). This should have to do both with the form and content of the image, as well as emerge from your preliminary research. Does the image raise critical questions about gender, race, class, or politics? Was it the product of an unusual, interesting or important technique or process? Was it controversial in some way? In any case, you must say something more substantial than “I like this object” or “I think it is cool”! It is expected that your research will explore not only the formal structure of the image you choose, but also the circumstances of its production and its social meanings and functions.