English 1022E Lecture 28: January 30, Chapter 5 history of the world Lec 028
3 Apr 2016
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Gericault: raft of the medusa: 1818-1819, this painting shows romanticism. Unlike neoclassical, romanticism is interested in issues of the sublime, and are emotionally charged: neoclassical painting: depict historical event but does so with emotional distance with what is portrayed. Always being historically accurate will eventually create bad art: 125. Truth is not just something difficult in terms of something someone doesn"t want to confront. Rather than see the truth, like history, democracy or freedom, these are terms that we, fight over: we fight over what is history, what is historically accurate, what is democracy. But this is true about the word truth as well: there is how you see it and how they see it. We use the truth as a tool/weapon: we are comfortable making others face the truth. We become so insistent making others confront truth. There is a truth here, a catastrophic one, were going to try to turn into art.
