ARTHI 6C Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Industrial Revolution, Voyeurism
Historical Context of joseph Wright of Derby's Air Pump painting
18th century (1700s): the Enlightenment
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New political and economic ideas
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Advancement in science
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Trade, modernization and manufacture
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Hierarchy of genres and other systems of classifications
History at the top
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Still lives at the bottom
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In a salon
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Audubon
Huge interest in science
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Working in the Americas
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Lithographs and folios of birds
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Joseph Wright of Derby is notable for?
Chiaroscuro, the contrast of light and dark, and the depiction of science
and alchemy
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Panorama
Large and broad views
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Popular phenomena as an entertainment attraction
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Experiencing the landscape by going in and experiencing the painting
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Sensory emersion in what was painted
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Canaletto
Used camera obscura
Dark chamber
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Pinhole used to create an upside down projection
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From that, painters would paint their images
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Intense level of detail that allowed for tracing or painting over
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Early photographic technology
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Porcelain vases are an example of _______ culture, whereas photographs are an
example of ______culture.
Material (physical objects)
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Visual (paintings and photographs)
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Porcelain
Sevres Manufactory
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Meissen Manufactory
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How does porcelain relate to issues of colonization and social hierarchy?
Orientalism was common
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Reflections of otherness
Black servitude□
Blackamoor products essential to the Meissen Manufactory□
Evident racial hierarchies□
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Orientalist painting
Heavy patterning
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Geometric shapes
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Ingres and his Turkish Bath painting
Figures don’t notice we're looking at them
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Unaware
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Sense of voyeurism
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19th Century
Industrial revolution
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Rapid acceleration of scientific discovery
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New inventions and technologies spurring
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Colonial expansion of the British Empire ("the sun never sets on the
British Empire")
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Manifest Destiny
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Large social and political changes
Slavery was largely abolished
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Section 4: Midterm Review
Thursday, May 3, 2018
9:01 AM
