IRL 500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Polykleitos, Donald Judd, Ai Weiwei
1 Jul 2016
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Becomes source of stereotyping: imagine authentic american art vs authentic african art . Canadian government arts funding now: try to apply labels to people. E. g. applications ask about gender, ethnicity, etc, fail to see complexity and fluidity by reducing to categories. Traditional western hierarchy of art: religious (christian) Issenheim altarpiece in hospital ward--people would look at it as they died. Crucifixion = relate to human pain and suffering. Gold sculpture, big, expensive = religious iconography was the best, most expensive, most powerful: history. Upper class wanted to link themselves to gr/rom empire. But this isn"t what they painted, e. g. lucas cranach judgment of paris uses. Jesus lived during roman empire = important time period and place. Renaissance setting/clothes/people because made for ren audience, just wanted to be made valid and relevant. Also this was mythology, not a scene from bible = wanted to assert authority of ancient.
