ARH 156 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Thomas Gainsborough, Joshua Reynolds, Age Of Enlightenment
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1779: striking laborers marched through countryside, dissatisfied with working conditions, dispersed by government troops sent from liverpool. Joseph wright of derby also marched: arkwright"s cotto(cid:374) mills (cid:271)y (cid:374)ight. Foreground: man in horse buggy, ghostly humans: his class emerges, moving attention from the content of the canvas to the process of seeing itself. Canvas is populated with figures who are ciphers of parality and then centers, beyond the frame, an observer defined by the difference his distance makes. Experiment on a bird in an air pump: 1768, represe(cid:374)ts wright"s (cid:373)ediatio(cid:374) upo(cid:374) (cid:374)ew te(cid:272)h(cid:374)ologies of seeing- new modes of vision- within the modern world. Socialization: a process that rewrites bodily and private states as cultural ones. John singleton copley: watson and the shark, naked figure shares the foreground with the shark, glazed eyes, open mouth. For both, culture is understood as an intervention that carries the individual away from private energies to collective purposes.
