To be discussed next class:
In light of reading Ways of Seeing by John Berger we can watch Berger on the information super highway. Please view sections 1 - 4. Take notes and be prepared to discuss in class.
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Ways+of+seeing&oq=Ways+of+seeing&aq=f&aqi=g4&aql=&gs_sm=e&gs_upl=14605l17412l0l17556l14l13l0l6l6l0l205l1060l2.4.1l7l0
Next class, remember to bring your images/media (between five and twenty images) to exchange with a classmate for our critical review and presentations due class eight.
If you have any questions please contact me.
Abigal Solomon-Godeau - The main thing that I picked up out of this article was the struggle between authorship vs. originality. Isn't that always something, as artists, that we will struggle with? Of course making 'original' work is important, but since in this time period where there is always a constant flow of information via web, television, social media, how can we take outside influence, whether is be conscious or not, and not incorporate it into our own work. There is a line (clear or not, I can't decide) between copying someone else's work and being inspired by work.
ReplyDeleteGrundberg - Postmodernism... I just don't get it. I looked up the word in the dictionary and it is specifically: "A late 20th-century style and concept in the arts, architecture, and criticism that represents a departure from modernism and has at its heart a general distrust of grand theories and ideologies as well as a problematical relationship with any notion of 'art.'" But I still don't understand what it 'means' (if that makes any sense). There was so many 'isms' in the writing that I had a hard time following through the pluralism, minimalism, conceptualism, modernism and postmodernism. It was a slow read for me, because I had to keep flipping to which ism meant which.
The Crisis of the Real: Andy Grundberg:
ReplyDeleteThis was an interesting read. Out of all of the readings assigned this semester I enjoyed this one the most. Grundberg explained modernism, mostly post modernism excellently. In fact, before I read the essay I had little to no knowledge of the topic!
I liked the part when he quoted David Crimp by saying, "post modernism is not simply what comes after modernism but is an attack on modernism, an undercutting of it basic assumptions about the role of art in culture and about the role of the artist in his/her art." Grundberg described the signifier and signifier in a manor which made sense to me: Morse code -- the signifier is the dots while the signifier is the letters. Towards the end of the essay he wrote about several different artist in the post modern world such as Thomas Lawson and Cindy Sherman's still images. A final quote that I took note of was "post modernist art accepts the world as an endless hall of mirrors, a place where images constitute that we are, as in Cindy Sherman;s world and where images constitute all of what we know, as in Richard Prince's universe. There is no authenticity of experience... sanctity of the individual artist's vision, genius, or originality... things have been used up. We are all prisoners of what we see."
Ways of Seeing: This was a video that I saw back in concept development two years ago. I did not recognize the name, but when I saw the man, Berger, I remembered clearly. What a badass man! The video explained how seeing differently is important especially when trying to converse and understand fine art.
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ReplyDeletehttp://toddstewartphotography.net/teaching/andy-grundberg-the-crisis-of-the-real/