Lecture 6

Introducing Postmodernism

-Postmodernism-Not serious/pokes fun at/exhaustion/pessimision/pluralism/dissilusionist

-Modernism=Expresion

-Postmodern=Reaction

-Jean Tinguely-"Homage to New York" 1960 - performed in the Sculpture garden, museum of modern art in new york, self destroying mechanism

Lecture 5

The Document

-Photography (objective) as recording/showing the world/stepping in (capture the world)
-Represent reality
-www.jamesnachtwey.com-bond with viewer
-Palestine 2000
-Rwanda 1
-Sudan 1992 (explicit/shows the horror)
-Neutral/shouldn't be this way, photographer always influences
-William Edward Kilburn (1848)-"The great chartist meeting at the common"-seemingly neutral photo, had a reason to shoot this way
-Rodger Fenton (1855)-"Into the valley of the shadow of death
-Decisive moment-photography achieves its highest distinction reflecting... Henri Cartier Bresson
-Jacob Riis (1888)-"Bandits Roost"-they are looking at the photographer not authentic documentary/realistic set up
-A growler gang in session
-CONSTRUCTION OF REALITY/STAGED REALITY
-Lewis Hine-"Russian steel workers" (1908)/"Child laborers in glassworks, Indiana"
-FSA photographer (1935-44) (farm security administrator)



-Political propaganda/"shooting script"
-Margaret Bourke-White "sharecropperse home" (1937)
-Russel Lee-"Interior of a black farmers house" (1939)
-Dorothea Lange-"Migrant mother" (1936)
-Walker Evans
-Robert Frank, 1888
-Carl Dammann (1870-1)
-"Burdens of representation" book
-Cesare Lombroso-"Portrait of melancholy","Portraits of Italian and German criminals"(1889)
-Robert Capa-Normandy, France (1945)/war photography/conflict
-Magnum group (1947)
-"Accidental Napalm Attack (1972)



-Don McCullin-"Shell shocked soldier" (1968)/McCullin was banned from the Faulklands as they didn't want people to know the reality of what happened there
-Robert Haeberle-"Massacre" (1969)/apart of it, but can't change it)
-William Klein-"St. Patricks Day, 5th Ave" (1954-55)
-Bernd and Hilla Becher-conceptual art
-Richard Long-"A long line and tracks in Bolivia" (1981)
-Critical realism-Berlot Brecht (1931)
-Fish story (book)/Theory of the novel
-Andreas Gursky,-"99 cent" (1999)
-Jeff Wall-"Dead troops talk" (1992)



-Gillian Wearing-"Signs that say what you want them to say" (1992-3)
-Jeremy Deller-"The Battle of Orgreave" (2001)
-John Harris

Lecture 4

The Mass Media and Society

Hypermedia-Interlinking media texts on an online document

-Marshall McLuhan-Tried to theorise new digital age/how it affects us (60's/70's)

-"Age of print" began 1450 (Gutenberg printing press)

-E-Book (reader allowed more power) to replace written printed book?

-Death of the author

-Hypertext-links/text

-Hypermedia

-Lost in knowledge/internet through hypertext

-Mass media-negative/positive

NEGATIVE

-superficial

-uncritical

-trivial

-viewing figures/measure success

-audience is dispersed/disempowered

-encourages the status quo

-properganda

POSITIVE

-creativity

-social problems

-injustices are discussed

-high art material reaches broader audience

-Art in the age of mass media-John.A Walker

-AUTONOMOUS

-Modern art in the common culture-Thomas Crow

-Liechtenstein

-Tony Abruzzo

-Eat, therefore I am-Warhol

-Anti-Art-celeb masks-Warhol's Marilyn's (1962)

-Warhol-Ambulance disaster (1963)

-Repetitiveness in the media-desensitises us

-H.R.Giger

-Myra (Hindley) (1995)-Marcus Harvey-sensation exhibition (intimate relationship)

Lecture 3

Advertising, Publicity and the Media

-Times square, New York/Mass advertising/Advertising invades

-Life is governed by what we own/consume

-Commodity culture-construct our identities through the consumer products that inhabit our lives

-'The commodity shelf' Stewart Ewan

-'Decoding advertisements' Judith Williamson

-Should be identified by what we produce not what we consume

-Symbolic Associations-life will be better if you buy their product/tricked into thinking that the product will make you more attractive to the opposite sex

-Aesthetic innovation

-Planned obsolescence-short shelf life

-Novelty

-False needs

-Commodity fetishism-advertising conceals the background "history" of products. In other words the context in which a product is produced is kept hidden.

-Barrier created between people/ judged on their outfit not known for their personality

-What is a band? What does it mean? Why do we want to buy it?

-Reification-products are given human associations/products themselves are perceived as sexy, romantic, fun, sophisticated etc.

-E.g Lip gloss-sex, rather than the woman or who she is

-Frankfurt school (1923)

-"One dimensional man" (1964)-Herbert Maruce

-Ways of seeing-John Berger

-Advertising encourages the idea that your not worthy or adequate

-Makes us unhappy with who we are/manipulation

-Want products/brands you can't afford/causes feelings of jealousy and envy

-Encouraging consumption

-No morals to advertising

-anti-ipod.co.uk

-ad busters

-Victor Burgin "7% of our population own 84% of our wealth"

Lecture 2

Graphic Design: A medium for the masses

-Graphic design versus fine art

-where it originated from

-reproducing fine art for advertisments

Lecture 1

Modernity/ Modernism

-1760-1960 = Modernism

-Modernize = to improve, positive, progress, forward thinking

-The Hireling Shepherd (1852) - Hunt = Pre Raphaelite/modern not modernist/traditional style work in modern world

-Paris 1900 - most modern city in the world

-Eiffel Tower - Modern materials/new is dominating

UBANISATION

-Rural work to factory work

-Railway

-Telephone

-Trottoir Roulant (electric moving walkway)

-1912 - world time was standardised

- SECULARISATION

-Paris on a Rainy day (1877)- Caillebotte - modern/cropped/walking down Haussmanns streets

-HAUSSMANNISATION - Haussmann redesigns paris/destroys rundown houses + narrow streets/ large boulevards instead

-Flaneur - Rich people showing off taking in modernity

-Fashion became status symbol/divides class/ wasn't an issue before

Whole idea of life changes:

-not work dawn till dusk

-shift work = spare time

-not everyone felt happy

-Degas - L'Absinthe - people being left behind by the modern world/life

-Technology rather than experience things for ourselves

-Allienation

-Manmade replacing natural

-Duchamp - Nude descending staircase - movement