For each topic Discuss AT LEAST three works of art, but no more than five, and for each topic it should include three paragraphs. Below are the essay topics:

1. What roles does technology play in spurring change in architecture? Note technology is defined as a material or structural development not simply a new concept (e.g., one-point perspective).

2.  Art and politics. How has art been used to support political leaders and their agendas or to critique political moves, whether domestic or foreign, social or martial, etc.? 

3.  Complete, partial, or fragmented. Ideal, stylized, or realistic. The body has taken on many forms in art. Consider the manner in which sculpture and painting have utilized and rendered the body. How does the representation of the body reflect cultural concerns? How has the body been used to communicate ideas/ideals (religious, political, socio-cultural), conceptions of the self (individual or collective), or representations of the other (gendered, cultural or racial)? Your essay should discuss examples from the Greek and African art as well as additional examples from other cultures or periods. 

4.  Death is a universal phenomenon that has to be dealt with by all cultures. Discuss the ways in which humans confront their deaths through art and architecture. In particular you should consider the relationships between beliefs and the treatment of the body as well as other issues such as hygiene, commemoration, or social status, to name a few. Your essay must include a discussion of the Neolithic period and Buddhism as well as additional examples from other cultures or periods.