HISTART 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Damien Hirst, Cognitive Flexibility, Digitalglobe
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Goals: visual images - basic viewing/thinking skills, making intelligent conversation about works of. Art and other images we encounter every day: global understanding of image making and the social construction of vision, enhance critical thinkings skills and cognitive flexibility. New york art auction in 2014 - over four days, . 66 billion was spent on postwar and contemporary art. There are economics behind the paintings; art has monetary value and paintings before reproduction. There are also a separation of classes because not everyone has access to culture through art (very costly at times) Historically, art has been a reflection of wealth. Art objects have their own life stories as they are passed down generation to generation, acquiring significance through its owners. Vermeer"s painting was passed down from the painter"s wife to hitler, which reflected the looting of art by the nazis (art was eventually passed on to museums) The ruins of the ancient city of palmyra - before and after isis.
