ARTH 227 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Edgar Degas, Mimesis, Dialectic
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Main theme: locate and define what modernism is. > degas"s sculpture: disrespectful kind of challenge to the status quo. Interruption of the artistic sculpture by elements from department stores (fabrics and ribbon) Mechanical reproduction that do not require academic education vs. artistic artefacts that require special academic techniques. > how they show the viewer of what they show (key): manufacturing, structuring etc. the artefacts they create. > capitalist modernity department store, for example. > 1850s paris: french flooded to the city for better life provide labours for the factories etc. Recall the degas"s sculpture: the dancer is a worker instead of a expresser of beauty; wage and money promote her (1840s 20th century) Karl marx: metaphor prostitute; selling physical labour for wage to support the living and leisure. Modernity: the historical period that begins with the capitalist mode of production since 1850s. Abstraction: talking about real abstraction talked by. Real abstraction: people, things and places cannot be.
