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Andy's New MTD Notes
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Week 1 Resources
- Introduction
- Go Over syllabus
- show Sister Wendy's story of painting
- Oleksiuk New Work ppt
- Assign proto-assignment 1
- send me a representational photo via email
Week 2 resources
- Review: modernism
- Cezanne, Picasso, cubism, dada, surrealism, Bauhaus, social realism, minimalism, abstract expressionism, pop art, Andy Warhol.
- Sister Wendy's story of Painting
- Sister Wendy’s story of painting [videorecording] / written & presented by Sister Wendy Beckett ; series producer, David Willcock ; a BBC production in association with WGBH/Boston.
Published: Beverly Hills, Calif. : CBS Fox Video ; [England] : BBC Video ; Beverly HIlls, Calif. : Distributed by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, [1997]
- Picasso, cubism
- matisse
- surrealism
- kandinsky
- klee
- New York
- Abstract Expressionism, etc
- Pollack
- DeKooning
- Mark Rothko
- Warhol
- Jasper John
- Frank Stella
- Agnes Martin
- Lucien Freud
- Edison's Miracle of Light
- Discuss Edison's miracle of light
- What is a killer app
- electricity: which came first, electricity or the telegraph?
- basic Edison biography, human face on history, Menlo Park
- 1% inspiration, 99% persperation
- phonograph
- ELECTRICITY VS. GAS LIGHTING
- incandescent filament lamp
- all experiemnts were massive failures
- carbonized thread
- "lightning" conception of electricity
- immediate industrial application
- did edison invent electricity???
- DC electrical novelties
- central station, Manhattan NYC
- not widely popular
- lightbulb hats as PR
- finally idea catches on, financial security
- AC vs DC
- Discuss Berger Chaps 1-3 (30 min)
- Saussure: Semiology or Semiotics
- Write on screen "I went to a book sale and all I bought was a semicolon." Discuss what makes this funny? Illustrates: Saussure's assertion that language is a system of signs in which the meaning of a term is based on its relations to othr terms in the system. i.e. we would have expected to have purchased a book, not a small piece of punctuation (hey comedy is hard)
- signifier: sound object image
- signified: concept generated
- signs are identified in terms of oppositions, uniqueness
- The notion the linguistics might be useful in studying other cultural phenomena is based on two fundamental insights:
- first that social and cultural phenomena are mot simply material objects or events but objects and events with meaning, and hence signs;
- second that they do not have essences but are defined by a network of relations
- Barthes (Myth)
- semiology can be applied to history, culture;
- sees problems with normativity (mythmaking)
- cultural feedback loop: this is the way mass media works: if a "meme" gets picked up and widely distributed, it becomes the norm (Lots of parallels with Cool Hunting)
- James W. Carey
- Two Models of Communication
- See also James W Carey
- Saussure: Semiology or Semiotics
- Watch Edison's Miracle of Light. Videorecording (VHS). Elevator Pictures, Inc. for the American Experience. WGBH Boston. Matthew Collins, producer/writer. John Walter, director/writer. 1995. (1 hour)
- Assign Project 2,