Visual Arts History 2191F/G Lecture Notes - Episteme, Connotation, Kazimir Malevich
13 Jan 2014
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Modernity: weakened social bonds, mass market economy, mass democracy; republic of liberal subjects, more materials, upper middle class increased bureaucratization social anxiety utopianism/futurism factories contained rows of machines. Mind= rational, controlled body=irrational, uncontrolled in its metabolic functioning: world knows when we represent it in thought, objectively ordering/enlightening the world, print becomes a key element of society, ned ward, the coffeehouse mob arguing in public intellectual combat. Perspective and the viewer: art"s function: to represent the real objectively, actually: perspective, highly subjective, a convention that makes images seem real, situates viewer in stationary position, renaissance: shift away from flat/sybollic(cid:224)intro of depth. Kant: what is enlightenment: being able to use one"s rational, critical thought, freely without repercussion, more beyond the immaturity of man to follow social and cultural institutions (i. e. religion, government, the state) and their ideologies (power, civic duty (appointed role under a specific institution lacks subjectivity versus private duty (scholar filled with subjectivity due to his freedom to criticize)
