ARTH 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Haida People, Iranian Revolution, Contemporary Art
26 Aug 2016
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Arth 1101 lecture 13 august 16, 2016. Art made with media that people had never even thought of before, metal work, glass blowing. Art becomes concerned with modern issues, politics, gender, etc. Contemporary art makes you think, rather than make a blunt statement like a history painting. Guerrilla girls do women have to be naked to get into the met. The flesh dress, the image of beauty, is fleeting: shock value, generated controversy, which was exactly what sterbach wanted. Reid classic haida pole: haida people lost their traditions, in a time before written history, a broken transmission means significant loss of information, reid and a team of anthropologists worked to revive haida media communication. Reid spririt of haids gwaii (1991: a revival of western bronze statue, a perfect hybrid of aboriginal and western art traditions. Yuxweluptun earth, clear-cut logging on native sovereign land.
