Ch. 3- Modernity 1. “ The gaze‚ whether institutional or individual‚ thus helps to establish relationships of power” (Sturken and Cartwright 111). I chose this quote because of the fact that it is true. Once the gaze was virtually absent from descriptions of art‚ except as an arrow in the quiver of ekphrasis. In the Imagines‚ Philostratus notes when gazes are returned or reflected (as in the case of a painting of Narcissus)‚ but he is not concerned with the narrative potential of gazing
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Aesthetics and taste In the practices of looking by Marita Sturken and Lisa Cartwright‚ they discuss the topic of Aesthetics and taste. Sturken and Lisa argue that all forms of arts need judgement for their values and qualities and in order to do this; they need aesthetics and taste. They define aesthetics as the “philosophy and the arts” and taste as “matter of individual interpretation.” They give example from “Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste” (1979) by Pierre Bourdieu
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Denotation is simply „meaning of the image refering to it’s literal‚ discriptive meaning” and conotation „meanings rely on cultural and historical context of the image and its viewers’ lived‚ felt knowledge of those circumstances” (Sturken‚ Marita & Lisa Cartwright‚ 2009‚ p 19). Additionally he uses also a definition of sign‚ whitch is constructed from „signifier” - written word/sound/image‚ and „signified” - that is a concept whitch is evoked by signifier‚ Regarding that‚ on the picture we see
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of Advertising. London: Routledge. Marie Gillespie and Jason Toynbee. (2006). Analysing Media Texts. Berkshire: The Open University Press. Michael O ’Shaughnessy‚ Jane Stadler. (2008). Media & society. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Sturken M‚ Cartwright L. (2009). Practices of Looking: An Introduction to Visual Culture. Oxford: Oxford University Press. The Media Education Lab website‚ (2012). The University of Rhode Island. [online] Available at: < http://mediaeducationlab.com/ > [Accessed
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Chapter ten “ The Global Flow of Visual Culture” discuss the circulation of images and how they have changed over many decades. People now only get their image information through satellites and the more frequently the web. In other words‚ we now get our information much more faster and in a more advanced way than humans did thirty years ago. Since there are newer ways that images travel through different media sources‚ there is now more room for people to be able to alter the specific image they’re
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her body. In making this argument‚ it is important to understand that the concept of representation is core to this argument. Representation is here used as “the use of language and images to create meaning about the world around us.” (Sturken & Cartwright‚ 2001‚ p. 12) Images of Sarah Baartman are used to create meaning. The statue created by Willie Bester is made up of recycled iron matter. The material brings to mind the different contexts in which her body was circulated during her life.
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‘Fat’ bodies are routinely marked. They are the abnormal and abject because they pose direct conflict to the norm. But the discourses that determine the norm are subject to the complex social process of normalization. Initially proposed by Michael Foucault in his 1975 text ‘Discipline and Punish’ normalization is the influence of disciplinary power on determining a norm of societal conduct. According to Foucault‚ sovereign power‚ power attributed to a specific authority was superseded by disciplinary
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theory to advertising‚ the definition of the gaze can be used to “describe the relationship of looking in which the subject is caught up in the dynamics of desire through trajectories of looking and being looked at among objects and other people” (Cartwright). Many ads we see use the traditional gender codes understood within the gaze‚ which have typically read woman as seductive for the dominating male gaze. However‚ a reversal of the gaze (i.e. woman as active‚ powerful‚ and “looking back”)‚ such
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1996. Print. Patton‚ Stacey. "Who ’s Afraid Of Black Sexuality?." Chronicle Of Higher Education 59.15 (2012): 3. Academic Search Premier. Web. 20 Dec. 2012. SHEETS‚ HILARIE M. Using Art to Build Pride. New York Times‚ 1 June 2005. Web. Sturken‚ Marita‚ and Lisa Cartwright. Practices of Looking: an Introduction to Visual Culture. New York: Oxford UP‚ 2009. Print.
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Introduction With the development of technology‚ human beings are able to capture a memorable moment with a tiny machine which is a camera. A photograph is a sliver of real life and an unedited copy of the real world. In order to analyze the meaning of the photographic image‚ I found the relevant text-book from Kwantlen University library‚ The disciplinary frame: photographic truths and the capture of meaning. In this book‚ the author John Tagg claims that “photography can seem to capture the
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