Visual Arts History 1042A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Guan Daosheng, Martha Rosler, Friedrich Engels
17 Dec 2017
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Walter benjamin: important in understandining modernity. The work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction 1936: critical for creating a theory about reproducing art, provides reader with factual time of development. Uses of photography: primary fsource about how artwork in differnnt settings develop. Andre breton (1896-1966: footnote 17, poet and former pyscaatrist, became declared leader of dadaist movement, defined what surrealism was, in 1920 on art was not valuble unless it was in tune with what was yet to come. Future ideas: all art forms intersect with three lines of development. One:technology moves development towards a particular form of art. Two: tradition art forms in certain fazes, work towards the affect that is effortlessly obtained from new ones: like how copying a photo in the 1920s and editing it is much easier with the technology we have today. Three: what seemed like unspectacular, changes with social settings: panorama.
