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
Iven and Re-enatment
Made it more subjective, because viewers will believe what they see. Not perfectly accurate of events.
-fictionalized to recreate the past
-Objective truth from analysis
-People connect better w/ stories rather than the past, it is less subjective
“Ley Fundamental de 17 de Mayo” (Manuel Fraga Iribane)
A law that didn’t significantly change the political landscape under Francos regime, but reinforced principles.
“Promoting the principles of the national movement”
Universalism
Idea of unified idealogy of history with a spiritual essence
Histiorography
Drawing history in a shape, with their own narrative
What is universalism to Herzberger?
Permanent set of values that are tied to a spiritual value. Under Francoism means nation has a particular spirit, and thought history gets uncovered. Universalism and historical truth comes forwards as the essence of spain
Post Apocalyptic
Modernism = apocalyptic and post apocalyptic time is “rebuilding” country
Eternal View of time?
“Time is a horizon and is a rising sun”
Rise of kinds, or rise of state = time is a horizon
-bring the past to present
Economic, Cultural, and Political time in Early Dictatorship (1940-1950s)
1.Economic: hindered international trade
- Cultural: censorship, propaganda. Limit impact of outsider beliefs; liberal ideas
- Political: concerned with closing itself off following WWII
Rebuilding after the war
- Regiones Devestadas Program
- Routes of War (staging)
- Removal of Republican Symbols
What is Kitsch?
A term used to describe art that is considered to contain superficial elements, or an excessive use of cliches that are often characterized by a lack of intellectual value or originality.
-Francoist Kitsch is primarily associated with propaganda and nationalism
El Turismo es un gan invento (film)
-Architecture campaigned to development/modernization
-Desarrollismo, late dictatorship (1960s)
-Comedies allowed for viewers to see outside culture, but then also contrast those images with spanish culture desire to show viewers modern land, but also keep them isolated.
Movement from Autarky to Descarrolismio (1960s-1970s)
Mainly headed by Manuel Fraga. Historical/cultural tourissm interior vs. beach tourism on coast.
State wants to be seen as democratic to attract outside investment. Concerned of impact of foreign visitors/modern customs on regime hegemony/national culture.
Catholic Ionography
Catholic imagery/ iconography played a large role in building design. Many buildings had religious symbols
Black Legend
Spain being an anti-modernized place. From the film, the los boobes girls coming into the town reaffirms the modern spectacle doesn’t align with the other towns sense of modernization.
End of Dictatorship: Puerta de sol
Puerta de sol = madrid’s significant makeover. Removal of street lights, “supositorieos” or “cerillas” due to their thin elongated shape, even though they were put in months earlier.
La Movida
expression of freedom and experimentation at the end of the dictatorship (1977-1980s). reduced to “sex, drugs, and rock/roll”
La Movida : subculture movement
Starts in small art galleries, and then spread throughout.
“a cultural group within a larger culture, often having beliefs or interests at variance with those of the larger culture.”
Urban
“How people understand their belonging to a city.”
-Reclaiming of public state, who has right to public space?
Uninhabitable: Uncanny
Uninhabitable means unsuitable for living in. Uncanny is strange or mysterious or unnatural
Spanish AMnesty (1977)
Law forgiving wrong doings to officials
Pact of Forgeting
1975; informal agreement; anyone who committed war crimes were written off.
Uncanny Valley
-Synder ties is to the space of home, familiar places become unrecognizable or uncanny.
-In between this is a human vs. computer
Spectacle in spain
Spanards consuming their own image turned into self-fetishized view (modernization of images)
-coping mechanisms of the past, addressing past through media with out actually defining it as trauma.
Dissonant Heritage
Heritage that changes depending on time/who you are talking to/ when you are asking (time period)
Post memory
Mentions of generational trauma impacts their feelings/views of era. Parents will never talk, but instead their behaviors impact their children. Manifests in children.
La Pieta
Reference to the scene of Mary holding Christ, related to catholic ideology/glorification of the states.
