ARTH 354 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Cubism, Black Dahlia, Banksy
5 Mar 2018
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Topic: the social fantastic, surrealism, and french culture. Who is fantomas: supervillain, no aim in life, but to perpetuate evil, master of disguise. Clips: 1) beginning of very first fantoma film, 2) chapter 1, perform innocence. Fantomas as anti-modern (in 2 ways): 1) fantomas casts doubt on the validity of scientific police procedures, resistance to the scientification of policing, 2) while paris is being modernized, in the name of open-ness, clarity, etc. (see slide) David white: 2007 (cid:374)o(cid:448)el (cid:862)fa(cid:374)to(cid:373)as i(cid:374) a(cid:373)eri(cid:272)a(cid:863, see slide for details. Forms of culture that did (cid:374)ot appear to (cid:271)e (cid:862)(cid:272)o(cid:374)trolled(cid:863). Felt this (cid:449)as a (cid:449)a(cid:455) to reju(cid:448)e(cid:374)ate culture. Interested in behavior that was impudent sometimes showed hypocrisy: surrealist interest in murder, controversial idea, considered a surrealist act because of its irrationality. Charles baudelaire (key ideas 19th century: artist can be a dandy or a criminal, degradation, sensory deadening of modern life requires either, confronted with materialistic world.
