ARHS 1500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Via Veneto, Max Horkheimer, Adet
18 Oct 2016
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Special properties of images, their potential, and connection. Art and culture after the late 1960s. Economic recession civil rights movements second wave feminism. Charles pierce (19 c. ) & ferdinand de saussure (20 c. ): Developed semiotics to help explain how meaning is constructed through sign process. Photographic truth: implication that images produced using the mechanical device of the camera have the power to project the truth. 1930s 70s: a golden era for documentary photography and public belief in (cid:862)photographi(cid:272) truth(cid:863) Spectacle guy debord (cid:862)a striki(cid:374)g a(cid:374)d i(cid:373)pressi(cid:448)e (cid:448)isual display(cid:863) function based on accumulation of increasingly impressive images whether truthful or not. The society of the spectacle / 1967. Stars need the media / vice versa = spectacle. Term used by members of frankfurt school. Framing: contemporary visual culture (image: 15-18,000-year-old cave images at lascaux, france) The number of hours in front of screens is increasing and there are more and more pictures in our new media sources.
