MPS 401 Lecture 2: History of Photography 2
18 Jan 2019
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In the book, jane: critiques suburban development, expresses anxieties of the demolition, discusses erosion of public transit. It was a failure and was demolished by the government: one of the first demolitions of a modernist project, the demolition was heavily documented, photos, videos. In 1982, when the film koyaanisqatsi was made, clips of the pruitt-igoe housing demolition were included. Richard hamilton, just what is it that makes today"s homes so different so appealing, Inspired by dadaism, bauhaus: new vision artists, use collage as a political act, formally challenge the image as a coherent picture claim/make statements about society. In this image: nude woman with a vacuum cleaner, pop culture references, theatre/cinema, media and technology, all found in advertisements. Roy litchenstein, drowning girl, 1963: mass market graphic art, comic books, suggestion of struggle for independence of the women of the 60s, artists of the 60s would never apply that meaning to their work in the 60s.
