[VCC101H5] - Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (18 pages long!)
6 Feb 2017
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Indians erected statues of gods in 1990 onward. Mord capitalism (fordism - named after ford motor car) The statues marked landscape - provided a visual regime. A (car) window is a new visual regime. You are only going to notice really big things. See paul bunyan on right (source: wikipedia) Cars gave rise to cities like las vegas. These large scale images were for consumerism and entertainment, but in india it related to religion. We can read this as hindu dominance as most of the statues were of hindu gods. Visual culture allows you to think of culture everywhere. Try to take a global perspective to visual media. Our task is to look at everyday images no one pays attention to. The boundaries between art history and visual culture is pretty fluid. Cinema involves moving picture engage with media. Time and movement: viewers move, how art is viewed in different times. Most images shape our lives without knowing it.
