ARTH 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Vanishing Point, John Berger, The Technique
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Writing assignment #1: choose any reproducible image (you have to buy the copyright) then make a formal description about that. Encompasses many different forms of media in a diverse range of contexts (e. g. fine art, advertising, television, youtube, paintings, gifts, Hollywood films, first person shooter games, print culture in the 15th century) They are all kind of visible artifacts, things made by humans directly or with human made technology and tools. Media: it is those materials/tools/technologies or (sets of) techniques through which we see, communicate, grasp, or create knowledge about our world and ourselves (so they are tools which create meaning) Visual culture: fine arts is framed by the institutional setting (e. g. the frame in a painting, the museum, the curator) and something with a critical context. Matthew arnold: culture is the best that has been thought and said .
