MDSB62H3 Lecture : Understanding Visual Culture.docx
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Read: rampley, visual culture and the meanings of culture from exploring visual culture. Visual culture and the meaning of culture by mathew rampley. Karl marx: german philosopher, economist, sociologist, historian, journalist, and revolutionary socialist. (the material) Matthew arnold : britan poet and cultural critic who worked as an inspector of schools. Arnold, the famed headmaster of rugby school, and brother to both tom arnold. (the cultura) Culture and anarchy - a series of periodical essays by matthew arnold, first published in cornhill magazine 1867-68 and collected as a book in 1869. The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light. He who works for sweetness and light, works to make reason and the will of god prevail. He who works for machinery, he who works for hatred, works only for confusion. Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light. [chapter 1: sweetness and light]
