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5-2 Short Answer

5-2 Short Answer

Q Overview For this assignment, you are asked to pick a cultural work from any time period and culture and evaluate how the insights you collected help indicate the value of the object to the culture. Prompt After making your selection of a cultural work, consider the items below. Specifically, you must address the following rubric criteria: • Describe the selected work. • Describe the time period the work belongs to. • Determine the culture the work belongs to and describe its value to that culture. • Explain how the cultural work helped deal with specific societal issues of the time. Guidelines for Submission Your submission should be a Word document, one to two pages in length, with 12-point Times New Roman font, double spacing, and one-inch margins. Any sources should be cited according to APA style. Consult the Shapiro Library APA Style Guide for more information on citations.

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For this assignment I have chosen a cultural work simple in appearance yet deeply rooted in culture, defiance & by some as, desecration. Ai Weiwei’s photo “Dropping A HAN Dynasty Urn” created in 1995. The photos used to make this cultural work show Ai Weiwei deliberately dropping a highly coveted two-thousand-year-old Han dynasty Urn of considerable monetary and more importantly, cultural value to the floor allowing it to smash to the ground without a glimpse of remorse in his face. For context purposes the Han Dynasty which took place during 206 BCE–220 CE is viewed as a defining moment in Chinese civilization, a turning point in China’s significance within the world.