Literature for the North Woods Project: Snapshot 3

The Literature for the North Woods Project is a project of creative translation: the natural environment is translated into literature and literature is translated onto nature. The project allows you to continue to grapple with the dilemma we confronted in our first class: does nature need art or does art need need? To provide you with a living model of how artists working in a variety of media have brought together nature and the arts, in this third Snapshot, you are to visit the Tang Teaching Museum exhibit Lives of the Hudson.

From your Google Sites home page, create a NEW Page for your snapshot, selecting "Put page under Home" as the location. Provide a clear Name for your page and click on the Create Page button. You are ready to write!

After you have titled your third Snapshot and included your name and email address in the header, enter the following questions on your snapshot and answer each question: one question and answer per box:

Prior to visiting the exhibit Lives of the Hudson, what did you think about/know about the Hudson River? Did the exhibit change your perceptions? How so?

Lives of the Hudson presents the River from four perspectives: Human, Imagined, Working, and Natural. What examples of these perspectives did you find in the exhibit? If you were to provide different points of view for an exhibit on the North Woods, what would those perspectives be? How might you (re)present them?

Thinking about the exhibit in relation to our readings for Literature and the Environment, what themes / ideas from our readings seemed present in the exhibit? Which themes seemed absent?

From the videos projected on the windows at the entrance to the Tang to the GIS maps created by Alex Chaucer, Lives of the Hudson presents the River through a variety of media. How might these works of art serve as a model for your project (and translate into a Literature for the North Woods Project?

Present your thoughts, visions, plans, or actual work you have done for your project.

This third Snapshot is to be completed when you come to class on Tuesday, 3 November. After you have saved and published your Snapshot, post an entry in our discussion board introducing yourself and giving the URL of your Snapshot so that others may view it and comment upon it.

 

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Literature for the North Woods Project: Snapshot 1

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Literature for the North Woods Project: Snapshot 4

Literature for the North Woods Project: Project Description