CMNS 230 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: History Of Rugby Union, Studio System, Betamax

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Communication
• Course: CMNS 230
• Professor: Blake May Sylvia

Document Summary

The global history of art, culture, and social change. Where does the desire for art come from: desire to move past the boredom, a means of communication (share an experience), sublimation; expressing your emotions. Began in art history: the will to create/tell a story/over generations, from paleolithic era, cave paintings to tell a story/write about history. Connecting to people, their own history, asking the big questions of existence. Creative art is fundamentally human; only animal that makes art. Effort to identify, over time, differences in social, economic and cultural organization. Attempt to identify sign markers that indicate where things made dramatic shift of some kind. How we make, value, and understand art. Patronage and artisanal period of small scale cultural production: poets, pai(cid:374)ters, (cid:373)usi(cid:272)ia(cid:374)s, ar(cid:272)hite(cid:272)ts (cid:862)retai(cid:374)ed(cid:863) (cid:271)(cid:455) the chur(cid:272)h, rulers, or (cid:271)(cid:455) aristo(cid:272)rats. Urbanization: change in what our audiences look like. Creation of new audiences in the city;