ARTH 380 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Alphonse Bertillon, The Turkish Bath, Maxime Du Camp
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Lecture nov. 7th: 19th century new media, two tendencies: dynamism and stasis. Crary: uses the word (cid:494)paradigm(cid:495) again and again. 19th century: something is altering subject position, the way in which one(cid:495)s purchase of. Thesis of crary(cid:495)s book: where the paradigm of the single point perspective is finally visuality the sudden complication/threat to the predominant modality of vision challenged, and comes to be displaced, which in turn, reciprocally, displaces and subjugates the viewer. Painting was liberated by the 19th c physiological optics, photography as a medium of reality/objectivity allows modernist painting to be free to explore its own perimeters. The paradigm entrenches itself, although appears on surface of things to be once challenged and displaced by new models of vision and visuality coming from physiomics in the 19th century. P. 86 of technology and observers, crary. All the modes of representations derived from renaissance no longer have legitimation from science!
