A review offers a critical assessment of an exhibition or film based in your visual analysis (formal descriiption and thorough interpretation) of a series of images or objects. The argumentative interpretation and assessment provided in a review results from using visual descriiptions to answer questions about the nature of this workand to determine its cultural value.The exhibition or film review you will write for this class will be based on the visual analysis skills you have acquired throughout the semester and will explicitly situateyour reviewed exhibition or film in relationshipto one of the units we have studied in this course.In other words, your review will help us understand what is your selected exhibition or film about, whatarethe most relevant choices made for the creation and selection of thespecific group of imagesor objectsthat comprise theexhibition or film, and how this exhibition or film exemplifiesone of the five units of our course (Visual Representations of the Americas; Bodies that Have Inhabited the Americas; The Natural Environment in the Americas; Built Environments in the Americas; Time and History in the Americas). For this review, you will write a 3–4-page synthesis, visual analysis, and interpretationof your selected exhibition or film. Use your powers of observation, analysis, and clear writing to propose an original, convincing argument about how your chosen artwork may be interpretedin the context of one of our five class units.
