Lecture Five

Marcus Harvery- Myra Hindlet, 1995 - Made her face out of childrens handprints- someone threw black all over it in a gallery as it was seen as offensive

Although the painting caused a stir when it was shown in the Royal Accedamy in 1997. The painting also recently caused some controversies as it was shown in a short three minute video of london, shown at a london 2012 event held in beijing

Andres Serrano- Piss Christ, 1989- Uk didnt care- America was very offended as they ar every religious

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-13124769 - a BBC news article i found on piss chirst, about relativley recent vandalism to the piece.

Book

' The death of the autor'  Image, music, text by Roland Barthes.
Barthes- ' meaning is nt created by the autor'

Micheal Craig- Oak tree, 1973
- plays around with language- signs and symbls ect.

Language of art, design and media: todays lecture.

- Death of the author
-Everything is a 'text'
-Structuralism
-Post- Structuralism
-Meaning
-Meaning constructed
-Visual communication
-Intertextuality
Innocence lost: the politics of looking and making

Part 1- Looking and making as political practices.
Images- Edokard manet, Olympia, 1863
-Offensive, white prostitue, not ashamed

Vicky Pollard, Little Britian- omly funny to certain classes to others its personal and offensive.

Mercatr Projection, 1569
Euro centrism- putting European concerns at the centre of our world
- makes the size and dominance smaller or bigger
- designed in the age of discovery for European people.

Peters projection, 1973
- The design you end up with is effected by the position you occupy
- The things we make are not natural/ neutral.
- Equally sized on the globe- equally sized on the mp.
- Based on land mass
- Politics of representation
- Decision was made on which way up the map should be- puts people on the Northern hald of the equator in dominance.

The lecture argues that:

- Looking is nt a vlue free activity
- No 'innocent eye'
- Looking take place from a position, changes what we see.
- Awareness of the location from which we look helps us to move from describing to analysing

Ideology: A word view

- Karl Marx (German Philosopher and political economist) writing in the 19th century during the rise of capatilism and industrialism

-Those who own means of production control ideas.
- Argued that economics determines culture
- Looks at relation of capatilism to class

Rupert Murdoch
- Owns 80% of media- people scared to speak out about him- he has the power to publicly humiliate someone.