SPAN2230 Flashcards
The Abject
Aesthetic category, sometimes associated w/ body, decay, filth, and taboo. Concerned with social limits, the separation
between the subject and the outside world exists. These separations are social norms, laws, cultural values, and institutions.
Mendelions Authoritative Film
Film: “Las Huerdas” Represented what the reforms are missing/ that they aren’t helping everyone. They didn’t want the film to be released (1932), because it made the left group look bad.
What does Doctor Albinana say about Las Huerdas?
He says the place is a result of the wrong doings of the church, and that the first left wing republic did all of these problems in Las Huerdas.
Emergence of Exhibition design by Artists as a genre of production.
Central example: El Lissitzky’s Pressa exhibition in Cologone 1928. Omission of these cases prompts the proposal to compare distinct but significant examples of exhibition design by artists in the first half of the 20th century.
Shift in Radical Design.
Exhibition design gained centrality in the work of radical artists in the 1920s and 30s as traditional plastic arts like painting/sculpting were decreasing due to the increase in media.
What did Munich’s exhibition support?
Munichs exhibition supported Fascits propaganda and aimed to restore traditional skills, hierarchies, and national myths
What did Paris Exhibition do?
On contrary to Munich’s, Paris exhibition critiqued Surrealism’s epistemological fatigue, confronting the encroachment of capitalist commodity culture and the loss of aesthetic autonomy.
Annihilitation of the Aesthetic Sphere.
Both exhibitions present the theme of the annihilitation of the asthetic sphere, where traditional forms of subjectivity, representation, and cultural identity were disrupted. Du Champ’s design dismantles the idea of a unified subject and reveals the domination of commodity culture.
What does DuChamps design embody?
Duchamp’s exhibition emobdies a combinatory logic, combing various spatial and social structures to represent the subjects everyday experience.
-Architecture, fashion, prostitution and gender identities.
-This design positioned itself between utopian features of 1920s exhibition design and their Fascist destruction
Surrealism and Nazism aesthetics and politics (1937-1938
- Exhibition de Surrealism = Paris.
- Munich Exhibition (State controlled) = Fascist propoganda. Degenerate = anti-navis, purpose was to educate the public on art (took modern art out and chose certain work to support their narrative.
Ziegler’s the Four Elements
-The female body (nude), reaffirmed male identity associated with the Father Land.
-Painting = standard medium art
-Surrealism = Land/soil (contained in Earth)
-fire,water, earth, air, reflects the fascists idealogy of navis germany
Body of Citizen
The body of citizen was an extension fo the state.
-The mass ornament
Internationale de Surrealism (1938)
-Plunged in darkness, given flashlights.
-Enhanced disorientation/surprise
-“Perfume of Brazil” = coffee roastedd to emanate + sountrack of crying and laughter, and german military march.
Surrealism and Capitalism
Surrealism prior to political direction focused on mass perception of capitalism. After consumers became widespread, everything was given a value. Surrealism wanted everyone to know this and used comparison rather than value.
-Value was determined by the state.
-Material culture
Photo Mural: Josep
Traditional woman vs. nontraditional female attire.
Gernica and the 1937 Expo in Paris?
The outbreak of the civil war, radical left v nationalist radical right.
-Franco: military leader/dictator type of spain
-Allowed the republic to fail = no intervention from other counters
-Bombing of the Basques = market town. (more of a demoralization of public rather than military tactic
Cubism
All photographic imagees being addressed together with different shapes and colors is Cubism
Civil War & Picasso
Picasso responds to civil war to the way paintings can represent more than just art.
-trying to bring paintings into convo about how they can do more than a single photo can do.
-Renaissance painting: the start with white than add darker colors. Used glass to show light, has 8 different aspects of painting
Aura
Represents many different layers of history.
-modern term is “vibe”
“The Spanish Earth” (1937 Film)
-Life turned into war, “eat, sleep, breathe, war”
3 different techniques of the way film was made?
- Mise en scene
- Spontaneious mode
- Newsreel mode
Mise en scene
a technique as to how film is made. defined with staged scenes
Spontaneous Mode
A technique as to how film is made. Defined by natural events/ during battle
Newsreel Mode
A technique as to how a film is made. Not footage they captured themselves, but incorporated into the story
