Wednesday, December 2, 2009

Silhouette Presentations and Reception

Silhouette Presentations and Reception, Fall 2011

Date and Time TBA

Meet first floor of Keenan Hall at 5:00. After everyone presents,  we will walk over food and drink, in the student center (in lounge area behind the bistro).

Fall 2009

Terms and People for Test #3, Monday, Dec. 7, 12:00 - 1:45. No make-up tests.

Saturday, Dec. 5, 10:30 pm. Test is complete. No new terms or adjustments will be made to the list below. See you all on Monday. Don't forget - you need to take down your silhouettes this weekend or after the test on Monday.

Supplication (p. 25 of first Uncle Tom handout)
Objectified (p. 29 of first Uncle Tom handout)
Archetypes (p. 32 of first Uncle Tom handout)
Hammat Billings
Winslow Homer
Kara Walker
PT Barnum and Uncle Tom's Cabin
Silhouette
Antebellum
Narrative
Stereoscope
Kinescope
Theater Setting of Cinema
Voyeurism
Montage
Aura
Colonialism
Empiricism
Identification as associated with cinema theorist Christian Metz
Ideology
Theater of Science
Geoffrey Batchen
Ugly Betty and Cultural Imperialism
William Kentridge and apartheid
Semiotics

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

NY Times Article, Kara Walker


NY Times Article, Artists try to boycott Kara Walker's art. Click here.

Silhouettes and Film, Slide Show. Click here.

The Art of Kara Walker, Resource List, click here.

Article, Kara Walker by John Haber. Click here.

Whitney Museum, Audio Visual Tour of Kara Walker. Click here.

Antique Silhouettes



Link here to see a wide selection of silhouettes and details on silhouette artists.

Sunday, November 1, 2009

I listed a few visual artists below. These artists are suggested for use in the paper that you are writing for HIS 205 and ART 218. I will add artists to this list over the next few weeks. You are not limited to the artists that appear on this list. However, if you decide to reference other artist(s), see me so we can discuss.

Kara Walker
Fred Wilson
Hammatt Billings
E.C. Kellogg
Thomas Eakins

Also, the link to Illustrating Uncle Tom's Cabin provides many visual images including those from individual artists as well as advertising and magazine publications. These images may also be used as sources for the paper.

Click here to see images in the reading handout, from the book Uncle Tom's Cabin As Visual Culture by Jo-Ann Morgan.

Godey's Lady's Book, mentioned on page 14 of the handout Uncle Tom's Cabin as Visual Culture. Click here.

The Greek Slave by Hiram Powers, mentioned on page 14 of the handout Uncle Tom's Cabin as Visual Culture. Click here.

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Medici

Michelangelo, Sistine Chapel, 1508 - 1512.

Victorian Era



Botticelli, 1482

1872, Julia Margaret Cameron.  Link here for more Julia.

Terra Cotta Soldiers


Chapter 4, Read:
141 - 151 (top of page)
161 - 164 (camera obscura)
174 - 180 (perspective in digital media)

Friday, October 23, 2009

Culture |ˈkəl ch ər|noun1
The arts and other manifestations of human intellectual achievement regarded collectively.
The customs, arts, social institutions, and achievements of a particular nation, people, or other social group.
The attitudes and behavior characteristic of a particular social group.

Leonardo da Vinci


The Da Vinci Experience. click here for the link.

Madonna and Jean-Michel Basquait





Jean-Michel Basquait



Click here for more images and a statement.


Another link for Basquiat

This link has a section labeled Basquiat and Modernism
Terms for Test #2. Midnight, Friday, Oct.30 is the cut off for adding new terms.
Symbol
Image
Modernity
Modernism
American Revolution (dates and why important to visual culture)
French Revolution (dates and why important to visual culture)
Icon
Enlightenment (18th century)
Renaissance (14th - 17th century)
Romantic style of painting
Neo-classical style of painting
Delacroix
Ingres
The term "art"
Odalisque
Culture
Vermeer
Virtual Images
Episteme
Camera Obscura
Isometric Space
Linear perspective
Realism
Abstract
Medici Family
Propaganda

Terms for Test #1
Laura Mulvey
John Berger
Margaret Mead
PT Barnum
Andy Warhol
Ulissee Adrovandi
Dr. Frederik Ruysch
The Gaze
Content
Wunderkammern
Theatrum Anatomicum
Museum
Connotative
Denotative
Aesthetic
Interpellated
Marcel Duchamp
Dada
Fred Wilson
Souvenier
Kitsch
Visual Culture
Platform

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Monday, October 12, 2009

Augustus, Roman Empire