AS AM 5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Yasuo Kuniyoshi, The Waste Land, Double Consciousness
6 Nov 2018
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Photographic technology creates the limits of representation as an artistic ideal. Realism is often present as a narrative technique, but the philosophical thrust (dominant mode) is different. Kai suck, untitled (portrait of a young man) 1867 example. Real life vs. what personhood looks like. See the shift away from representation of realism to non-representation to modernism. Pablo picasso ma jolie (my pretty girl) 1911-12. Version of who she was: representation is boring, concepts of self may look like. The divided, conflicting self looking at oneself in a broken mirror. Hero becomes consistent hero: find place of belonging in this world. Pounding (cid:396)until there"s nothing left to call one"s self(cid:397) (12). Sense of nothingness that ichiro feels (16-17) Experiment: recognize he is fluid (the rant) Fluidity of consciousness to reflect this reality; alienated self in urban world. German dead on sunken road nyt 1919. Critique of war, effects of it on ichiro"s community.
