VCC304H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Long Hair
16 Jan 2017
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Race and the body in colonial visual culture. Way of telling a story in a particular format that is told repeatedly that it becomes concrete. Tropes become a naturalized truth due to repetition. Idea of indigenous people being simpler/more attached to nature: they are considered less of/uncivilized, unclothed. Difference: racial component; blackness = monstrosity/contradiction in terms. Allegory: symbolic fictional figures and actions of truths or generalizations about human existence. Some allegorical tropes are subtle so they are more believable. Placing a face to a type of disposition. Human can be categorized as normal and abnormal. The medical icons are no more real than the aesthetic icons: the medical image/iconography is on the same level as the popular iconography at the time, in terms of truth. The seal of science holds the iconography higher. It is a bout diversity: choose every type/illness and keep it. Exhibited as a curiosity in europe which is viewed on her body type rather than her.
