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At this point, the only part of my case studies that I am completing is Practices of Looking and my scale of analysis. It’s really the only part that I can complete.
I did not see Jackie Brown so much as a reemergence of Blaxploitation, but as an action filming incorporating tiny aspects of that genre.
Notes on Jackie Brown
Similar opening title to Jackie Brown, similar music and opening titles, it differs in lack of dancing and psychedelic colors.
Same leading actress, Pam Grier.
Usage “the n word”
A “Kangol” hat is worn, like in Foxy Brown
Famous Tarantino “trunk” scene.
Explicit language.
Violence
Display of female independence, much like in Foxy Brown.
Like Foxy Brown,...
Notes on Foxy Brown
Opens with funk music, dancing, and “psychedelic” electric colors.
Cleavage!
Continuous dancing and outfit changes in the opening.
Medium quality (sign of the time period).
Signature “cool” dress.
Afro
Explicit language.
Nudity
Violence
Character stating his lack of Black identity
The use of the n-word,”jiggaboo,” “spook,”...
Practices of Looking pgs 151-206
“Recent accounts have stressed a paradox: paintings organized by the conventions of perspective take the fixed gaze of the individual spectator as the organizing locus. But at the same time, the system of perspective displaces the seeing individual with a mechanical device that approximates the human gaze” (156).
“Cubism was a style that deliberately challenged the dominant...
Add the name of artist to scale of analysis. My recent additions to my scale of analysis may seem obvious and rudimentary, however they exhibit a better understanding of a more classic look at art. These are aspects that I, most likely because of my lack of education about art history and culture, never thought of. My reading has also stressed the importance of the name of the artist. Not only...
Add category of art to scale of analysis.
Add [assumed] authorial intent to scale of analysis.
“If you can mass produce everything…where is the counter culture movement?”
– Mr. Foxman
May 2010
17 posts
Practices of Looking pgs 82-151
Appropriation: Taking something for oneself without consent.
If this is so then is it possible to always know when something is being appropriated? What defines consent? If I reblog a photo of someone with their name thus giving them credit does that mean it was a consented reblog?
Cultural Appropriation: The process of “borrowing” and changing the meaning of cultural products,...
Notes on Telephone Video
SImilarities:
Rather large font used in opening credits like in Kill Bill
The location is given, like in Kill Bill
The wearing of sunglasses
Violence
Mass Murder
Sisterhood
Explicit language
The “Pussy Wagon” like in Kill Bill
The ending with clasping hands together and driving towards some “end” much like Thelma and Louise.
Like in Thelma and Louise, the women...
Questions for Mr.Foxman
1. Can you please make Stuart Hall’s the three different modes of engagement with popular culture clear to me (dominant-hegemonic, negotiated, and oppositional)?
2. What is the difference between appropriation and reappropriation, I think I may have used these terms interchangeably when they are not.
Practices of Looking pgs 75-82
(Due to my confusion last time, I am doing a little backtracking, hence this starting at page 75 and not 77.)
“This negotiation with popular culture is referred to as ‘the art of making do,’ a phrase that implies that although viewers may not be able to change the cultural products they observe, they can ‘make do’ by interpreting, rejecting, or reconfiguring the...
Practices of Looking pgs 74-77
“Interpretation is thus a mental process of acceptance and rejection of the meaning and associations that adhere to a given image through the force of dominant ideologies” (74).
This gives me an idea for a project. Since I am going to museums with Romain tomorrow, I can take 3 works of art that we view, see how he interprets them, see how those differ from my interpretations and I...
Practices of Looking pgs 34-74
Icon: An image that refers to something outside of its individual components, something (or someone) that has great symbolic meaning for many people.
Mr. Foxman loves icons.
“Image icons are experienced as if universal, but their meanings are always historically and contextually produced” (39).
“The production of meaning involves at least three elements besides the image...
Look up Shepard Fairy.
Case Study
Take the Lady Gaga “Telephone” video and dissect it and look for visual images that are similar to Thelma and Louise and Kill Bill. Why are they doing this? What is it the value of all this? The value of a music video is to sell the music. Compare it to “Thriller” video.
Culture: The customs, arts, social institutions, and achievements of a particular nation, people, or other social group (New Oxford American Dictionary)
Popular Culture: The totality of ideas, perspectives, attitudes, memes,[1] images and other phenomena that are deemed preferred per an informal consensus within the mainstream of a given culture (wikipedia).
Counterculture: A culture, especially...
Questions for Mr. Foxman
Can you make the differences between connotative and denotative meanings clearer to me?
Explain media saturation.
Can you make semiotics more clear to me?
Practices of Looking pgs 5-34
One of the greatest things about Practices of Looking is that it also considers those of us who are “blind or have low vision.” It is enlightened in that aspect.
“Looking is a social practice, whether we do it by choice or compliance. Through looking, and through touching and hearing as means of navigating space organized around the sense of sight, we negotiate our social...
Practices of Looking pgs 1-5
-“The term ‘visual culture’ encompasses many media forms ranging from fine art to popular film and television to advertising to visual data in fields such as the sciences, law, and medicine” (1.) What I like about this book is that the term visual culture is used instantly. It will clearly be a source that will aid me in my articulation of my understanding of visual...
“We negotiate the world through visual culture, whether we are sighted or have...”
– Practices of Looking (1)
April 2010
11 posts
Main or Interesting Ideas and Concepts From Ways...
The world is composed of visuals (1-5)
How one’s knowledge of history improves their concept of art. “When we ‘see’ a landscape, we situate ourselves in it. If we ‘saw’ the art of the past, we would situate ourselves in history.”
The social urgencies that art reflects.
How the reproduction of a piece changes it’s meaning (18-19).
The affect of a work’s market...
Ways of Seeing pgs 137-155
“Publicity is, in essence, nostalgic. It has to sell the past to the future. It cannot itself supply the standards of its own claims. And so all its references to quality are bound to be retrospective and traditional. It would lack both confidence and credibility if it used a strictly contemporary language” (139). Okey doke.
“Cigars can be sold in the name of a King, underwear...
“All publicity works upon anxiety. The sum of everything is money, to get money...”
– Ways of Seeing
“Though the same object may not seem beautiful to all people, all people who...”
– A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
“Art is a sign of affluence; it belongs to the good life; it is part of the...”
– Ways of Seeing
“Publicity is the process of manufacturing glamor.”
– Ways of Seeing
“In the cities in which we live, all of us see hundreds of publicity images every...”
– Ways of Seeing
Ways of Seeing pgs 109-137
In the photo essay of section 6 on page 114 there is a work of art entitled “Europe Supported by Africa and America” in which there appears to be an African and a Native American woman holding or “supporting” a European woman. I think it’s interesting that the artist of this work has chosen to use women instead of men to represent these countries. What is the...
“From the tradition a kind of stereotype of ‘the great artist’ has...”
– Ways of Seeing
“The special qualities of oil painting lent themselves to a special system of...”
– Ways of Seeing
Ways of Seeing pgs 90-109
“Works of art in earlier traditions celebrated wealth. But wealth was then a symbol of a fixed social or divine order. Oil painting celebrated a new kind of wealth- which was dynamic and which found its only sanction in the supreme buying power of money. Thus painting itself had to be able to demonstrate the desirability of what money could buy. And the visual desirability of what can be...
March 2010
35 posts
thisisfed:
posted by: Federico Ferrari with tags: {interior, still life}
By Matthew Genitempo
These expand my conceptions of what a still life looks like.
Jens Windolf
thisisfed:
posted by: Federico Ferrari with tags: {still life}
I am really drawn to this. Perhaps it is the high resolution.
