ART H210 Lecture : Wednesday March 7.docx
19 Mar 2012
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Cut up images from journals and newspaper and restructured. Images cut up and repositioned and then re photographed to be reproduced. Beautiful girl sitting in the middle in a bathing suit, which was new showing a lot of skin, with a light bulb head. About speed and light and modernism commercialism. Evoking a sense of optimism, and all the new technologies to help shine a light on women. Journal ethnographic collections (objects that were dedicated to museums that were not western art) Bringing together 2 dis similar objects 1920"s magazines, with objects that were seen as primitive. Hoch would have seen it as a utopian light. Not things we would have been questioned in original form, and she put them together very strange way and giving us a critical eye. Put them in contrast in strange forms to disrupt your expectations. Contrasting elements that don"t really go together.
