HUMA 1780 Lecture Notes - Aphrodite Of Cnidus, Metanarrative, Eurocentrism
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Stories in diverse media (ap huma 1780b) wednesday. Stereotypical images and narratives help construct our reality. Things that make images of stereotypes, the face of crimes, the face of poverty, etc . There are a lot of creams, powders and etc that try to make us into the beauty ideals, but they do not work because most of these photos are more photoshopped. There are people that do not conform, but then the non-conformities become the cool thing to do. Origin of aesthetic values are from classical greek art: rational, logical, universal. Eurocentric used as standard to evaluate non-european art (and determine it as inferior) Christian ideas used to justify colonization and slavery. Civilized christian white men as superior to the cursed sons of ham , the savages, and heathens. We want to look at how gender plays out in european art tradition. The concept of beauty: is socially constructed (time, place)
