JAV200H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Pseudoscience, Transcoding, Movable Type
23 Sep 2020
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Looking at how methods of reproduction have changed and progressed throughout history - this is important in our understanding of what images can do, what they mean and their value. The idea of the artist existing within the canvas/image returning. 19th century was the century of speed - industry, steam engine, telegraph. The ability to move goods and people at unprecedented speeds around the world, creating a global market. Telegraph allows us to send messages at much higher speeds - radical shift in speed. Influences our daily routines, what we consume, our culture. Emile zola quote - photographs allow us to study a section on a different temporal time scale (representation of time) 7th and 6th c. bce, mass of coin determines value, images determine quality/trustworthiness. Woodcuts: earliest printmaking for flat images, paper or cloth, europe 13th century, negative cut to positive print.
