Week 1

Question 1

explain the frankfurt school

Answer 1

tried to identify the link between art, politics, culture and identity

Question 2

who was walter benendy?

Answer 2

the work of art and mechanical preproduction. Art will bring out truth in society and bring about new shape and conventional social forms.

Question 3

Explain cinema

Answer 3

considered a corporate entity. its not about images but it is reproducible. Seen as a special kind of artwork.

Question 4

Explain the cultural industry

Answer 4

participation in a consumer society, controlled by large corporations. Reaches to every possible pursuit leaving out guards down. makes us want things. Shows us what life should be.

Question 5

Key ideas of the frankfurt school.

Answer 5

Aesthetics, politics, social change, capitalism with an interdisciplinary approach.

Question 6

What is inherently ideological?

Answer 6

art

Question 7

what did Gessanthun Stwerk believe?

Answer 7

Make men feel reproduced, art is always ideological. His books only talk about western culture