Luxor Hotel Las Vegas Questions 7-11

 This is the entrance to the Luxor Hotel in Las Vegas.  I  stay here because I can always find the giant pyramid that emits a spotlight. The Egyptian government sued the Luxor for copyright infringement and eventually several of the large murals in the hotel were removed.  Recently they were on display at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles,  along with other "Egyptian"

artifacts dug up from the small California town of Guadalupe, where they had been buried by the film maker Cecile B. Demille, so that other film makers would not use his Egyptian sets from "The Ten Commandments" in their own movies.

6.  What makes this situation/story postmodern?

7. Judging Art: Critical judgments are much more than  opinions. Judgments are informed critical arguments about the value of a work of art. Terry Barrett describes four major theories of art that are used to make judgments about art. How does your own artistic practice fits into the criteria of realism, formalism, expressionism or instrumentalism? 

8. Postmodernism: Other Perspectives (Eleanor Heartney) In critical theory and critical pedagogy, the idea of deconstruction often appears.

Define Critical Pedagogy 

9. Define Deconstruction.

10. Postmodernism: Other Perspectives (Eleanor Heartney) Postmodern feminists explored the idea of “femininity as a masquerade”, that womanhood is socially constructed.  In what ways are gender identities socially constructed?  In what ways are they not socially constructed?

11. Postmodernism: Other Perspectives (Eleanor Heartney) Postmodern multiculturalists sought the origin of racial and ethnic Otherness in the way that history is constructed. Describe two different ways that Mormon history has been constructed.