Creative Essay: Expanded Analysis - First Draft
Due Thursday, February 9, 2006

Creative Essay: Expanded Analysis - First Draft (7-8 pages)
Expounding upon the one page Analysis and Synthesis written during the Fall semester, the Creative Essay: Expanded Analysis, will synthesize the knowledge gained in the Research Paper and explain its impact on your creative practice.   The Creative Essay: Expanded Analysis can also be thought of as an extended Artist's Statement.

Strategies for Outlining your Creative Essay: Expanded Analysis Remember, your Creative Essay: Expanded Analysis is related to your Fall research documentation. It is an extension of the one page Analysis and Synthesis section. Using the historical, theoretical and cultural context research as support for your personal artistic voice, it should explain the "Why, What, When and How " of your artistic purpose and creative thesis project. • Before beginning, review the main areas of research in my Research Paper: Final Draft from the Fall 05 semester. • It may be helpful to create a list of these main areas of research in the working outline for your Creative Essay: Expanded Analysis. Refer to them as you think about the questions below. • Describe your creative sensibility, personal aesthetic and artistic viewpoint. • Use a first person, more personal voice to describe your work and aesthetic sensibility. Flowery language and art jargon do not necessarily indicate depth of thought. Very complicated ideas are often best said with clear + simple language. • In a general sense, describe what has directly influenced and contributed to your work and/or creative process? Draw in your research and its impact on your creative voice. • What in your research has helped form your unique vision and project. • How have personal experiences and philosophies, in addition to your research, contributed to the development of your personal aesthetic and artistic viewpoint? • Give specific conceptual, personal and visual examples from your own work and life to illuminate how this research has influenced you and led to the formation of your artistic vision/viewpoint. • Why is your research and artistic viewpoint important? How has it furthered the larger artistic and cultural discussion of your chosen area of interest. • What is unique about your aesthetic and artistic contribution to the larger art community? • How do you as an artist see your work and define your role within the larger art community?

Bibliography + Footnotes
Amend your bibliography and footnotes to reflect any new sources you cite in your Creative Essay: Expanded Analysis. Use the same structure/format for footnotes and bibliography that you used in your Research Paper. Do not create a new bibliography -- amend your existing one.

Resources for Artist Writings:

Online
ArtForum: Language in the vicinity of art: artists' writings, 1960 - 1975
The Artist's Perspective

Text
Wallis, Brian, Ed. Blasted Allegories: An Anthology of Writings by Contemporary Artists, Boston, MA: MIT Press, 1989.

Stiles, Kristine and Peter Selz, Ed. Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art: A Sourcebook of Artists' Writings, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, April 1996.

Sample 0405 Final Thesis Proposals in PDF format

Lahari Shetty (hard copy only)

Yuli Ziv
(Note: this sample is written by a non-native English language speaker. There are some odd usages of English, but I include it, because it is well conceived and written in her own words.) Again, it is most important that you use your own words and not someone else's.