Writing Homework Help

Choose ONE of the following two questions to answer in an essay between 4 full pages, word count at least 1300 (double-spaced, 12-point font). For each essay, use any 3 objects in my pdf files and readings (from weeks 6 to 10) to support your answers.

Question 1. Originality, Reproducibility, Authenticity

Ingredients: 3 works/objects, Winnie Wong on Dafen Village, Roland Barthes on fashion

In the everyday context, we tend to consider the original “authentic” and “unique” and its copies inauthentic. Problematize this cliché by analyzing any three (3) works/objects we looked at in the second half of the course (weeks 6-10). In addition, how does Winnie Wong’s ethnography of the Chinese painters in Dafen Village challenge this cliché? How does Roland Barthes’s essays on fashion complicate our understanding of originality? Cite both authors (Wong and Barthes) to support your answer.

Question 2. Vision & Modernity

Ingredients: 3 works/objects, Jonathan Crary on “Modernizing Vision,” Anne Friedberg on flâneur/flâneuse

What is unique about modern or modernized vision that sets it apart from classical ways of seeing? Answer by analyzing any three (3) works/objects we looked at in the second half of the course (weeks 6 to 10). How do we learn from Jonathan Crary and Anne Friedberg in regards to how vision relates to mobility in modern times? Cite both authors (Crary and Friedberg) to support your answer.