Paper : write a 2-page response paper (double space, 12 points, Times New Roman) to Bagley’s essay “The First Paper Assignment.” For those of you who have taken other art history courses, have you been given assignments like the one this essay analyzes? If so, what was your experience with the assignment? Does Bagley’s analysis fit your experience? What is his larger argument? Do you buy it? What does art history mean to him and how he does it and teach it to students who have no prior knowledge of the subject? Why do we describe an art work? What are the goals and methods of art history as an independent discipline?

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