Essay question:
Compare Francesca Woodman and Mary Ellen Mark’s representation/documentation of mental illness.
Introduction (250-500 words): What is your area study? Which artists will you be analysing and why? How will you be responding to their work and essay question?
- Mental illness.
- Surrealism (Francesca Woodman).
- Francesca Woodman (Surrealism, Long exposure, Self-portrait, feminism, depression).
- Mary Ellen Mark (Ward 81, Karen Jacobs, documentation, 1970s mental hospital).
- Compare a personal view and ‘outsider’s perspective.’
Pg 1 (500 words): Historical/ theoretical context within art, photography and visual culture relevant to your area of study. Make links to art movements/ isms and some of the methods employed by critics and historian.
- Surrealism.
- Staged.
- Documentary.
Pg 2 (500 words): Analyse first artist/photographer in relation to your essay question. Present and evaluate your own images and responses.
- Francesca Woodman.
- On Being An Angel.
Pg 3 (500 words): Analyse second artist/photographer in relation to your essay question. Present and evaluate your own images and responses.
- Mary Ellen Mark.
- Ward 81.