Week nine

Acts

Moral philosophy='action theory'='to do'

Social agents constitute social reality through

Language

Gesture

Symbolic social sign

Gender/ stylization of the body

week eight

The Gaze

Scopophilia- the desire to look, which is a primary human instinct.An interesting response on Laura Mulvey's essay is Epidexiphilia, or, I'll show you Mine by David J Tremblay

The majority of "viewers" for the Reality TV series The Girls Next Door is women in their 20's and 30's, which is rather shocking. It appears to be a guilty pleasure for women to day, we have the desire to look just as much as men. 

Barbara DeGenevieve "Gordon #3" from the Panhandler Project 2004, her work explores the connection between power and sex, in the historical and inverse relation ship.

Bettie Page, till this day there is still a fascination with her, the way she "looks" at the viewer.

Barbara Kruger's work is still power full with today's audience. 

Week Seven

Power and Structure

Week Six

"As a Principle a work of art has always been reproducible" From founding and stamping, to woodcut, engraving, etching and lithography, to printing and finally photography and film. 

However a Copy/reproduction of a painting is very different than that of a photograph. While a photograph can be printed infinitely and be identical copies (therefor all originals), a painting can not be coped identically, same as a woodcut or lithograph which  have a limited printing run (the first is not the same as the next as seen in the diagram). 

"technical reproduction had reached a standard that not only permitted it to reproduce  all transmitted works of art and thus to cause the most profound change in their impact upon the public; it also had captured a place of its own among the artistic processes."

"first, process reproduction is more independent of the original than manual reproduction."

"second, technical reproduction can put the copy of the original into situations which would be out of reach for the original."

Reinventing Documentary (Art as a mode of human communication)

"a representational art, an art that refers to something beyond itself"

"A small number of contemporary photographers have set out deliberately to work against the strategies that have succeeded in making photography a high art."

"... they insist on treating photographs not as privileged objects but ad common cultural artifacts."

Fred Lonidier: Sociological possibilities of photography applies to social change

Lewis Baltz: focused on the counter-aesthetic of photography (New Industrial Parks 12/85)

Martha Rosler