What is the purpose of word play in examples of contemporary visual art?
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: The ideal answer should include:
1. The title of "Race"ing Sideways plays with the identity and orientation of runners aligned in the piece but also suggests the problem of "side stepping" racial issues.
2. Adrian Piper's calling cards reverse traditional social transactions through printed messages, which are form and function in the artist's process of "calling out" offenders.
3. Rashid Johnson plays with sources of visual culture by lifting the title for his installation, The Souls of Black Folk, from W. E. B. Du Bois's classic book, turning over the history that work represents.
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Indicate whether the statement is true or false
The Christianization of the Celts of Ireland began in the ________.
a. 3rd century b. 4th century c. 6th century d. 5th century