Celia Wilson
VISUAL LITERACY
Lecture Six - Controversies
DR. TERRY SPEAKE
The Re-Presentation of Images - Any collection of photographs is an exercise in surrealist montage and the surrealist abbreviation of history.
Anton Giulio Bragaglia:
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Pioneer of Italian Futuristic Photography
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Produced futuristic manifestos
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Futurists had a passionate loathing of anything old - they admired speed, technology - anything that showed the triumph of technology (humanity) over nature
Brasilia (1890 - 1960)
The Dada Movement:
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Anti-war, anti-culture
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A reaction to the First World War, began in 1916
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Object was to react against the meaninglessness of the modern world
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Inspired surrealism, pop art and punk rock
Sex Pistols (1977)
Man Ray:
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American by birth, spent most of his career in Paris
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Friend of Marcel Duchamp - both discovered photography as a creative medium
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Discovered the 'rayograph' (photogram)
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Argued that they were the first photographic prints to attain artistic value
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Man Ray made the shift from Dada to Surrealism and understood the creative power of photography
Man Ray (1930) Tears