Iconoclasm Iconoclash Readings Mitchell Offending Images and Latour
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Iconoclasm & Iconoclash Readings: Mitchell “Offending Images” and Latour “Iconoclash”
Silencing the past
Public Outrage
Vandalism & Iconoclasm n Vandals as ignorant, silly, senseless, stupid Goya No sabe lo que hace
Iconoclasm vs. Vandalism? • deliberate destruction of images rooted in religious, political, cultural beliefs or groups etc. vs. Ignorant behaviour. Which is it? Example: Destruction of 3 rd c. A. D. Buddhas by Taleban in Afghanistan completed March 12, 2002 --
Iconoclasm? n Destruction of images linked to “rational” acts, meaning or connections of images to something- but how? Ofili Virgin Mary
Why are some images kept & others destroyed? n Personal (family) Networks & Values n Community-based criteria n Other factors (sometimes concurrent) – Scholarly – Political – Economic – Moral & ethical – Class-based (elite, popular) agendas etc…. n Variations in meaning over time
Inclusion --Exclusion & the democratization of image censorship “Headbangers”--Heavy metal fans http: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=Ph. Gx 4 Rh 0 Qo 8 Mid-Summer Night Swing Dancing at the Lincoln Center, NYC
Identity issues & the meaning of images n Inclusion/cohesion – Visual images as expression of identity, difference (distinction) n Exclusion – Discriminatory Dimensions – Censorship and/or Democratization
Mitchell--Why do some images offend? n False Assumptions: – Images transparently linked to what it represents (doing something to image, does something to what it represents) – Images “feels” what is done to it
Examples from Mitchell n Richard Serra’s Tilted Arc
Maya Lin’s Vietnam Veteran’s War Memorial
Lin
Mapplethorpe
Michelangelo David
Swastika
Confederate Flage
Jasper Johns Flag
Marcus Harvey Myra
Damian Hirst
Poussin Adoration of the Golden Calf
Serrano Piss Christ
Offili Outrage over Virgin Mary? n Outrage about symbolic desecration n
Latour: Why do images inspire hatred? n ways of understanding iconoclasts – Inner goals – Roles ascribed to images – Effects of destruction on others – How reactions of those assocciated with images are interpreted by iconoclasts – Effects on the destroyer’s own feelings
Fuseli: Artist weeping in despair …. diverse meanings of the disappearance & rejection of artworks n Vandalism vs. Iconoclasm • Vandalists: ignorant, senseless • Iconoclasts: deliberate opposition, “rationale” grounded in system of values n
Censorship as an outcome of democratization n artists’ & minority publics’ rights to – “self-expression” or – freedom of speech (1 st Amendment in US) – But systematic suppression VS. public’s rights & government’s duties to enforce standards n issues-- what standards, whose standards? n
Typology of Iconoclasts A-- against images n B-against “freeze-frame” n C-against opponents’ images n D-Unwitting destroyers n E-Ironic destroyers n n Message? Interrupte vs. cascading images
- Bruno latour
- Georges de la tour magdalena penitente
- Outline and compare two explanations for offending 16 marks
- Avoid the offending allergen that
- Wakefield youth offending team
- Psycholotron
- Youth offending service
- Neural explanations of offending behaviour
- Wolf's cycle of offending
- Nottingham youth offending team
- Risk factors for youth offending
- Eb = p x a x t
- What is reading and types of reading
- Vernier scale in theodolite
- Conclusion of vernier caliper
- How to write keratometry readings
- 312زبان عشق
- Lel meter readings
- Rad 57 readings
- Abg levels
- Reading a graduated cylinder
- Christmas responsive reading
- Thanksgiving responsive readings
- Jcu readings
- Ammeter readings
- Normal ecg readings
- Real vs virtual image
- Hi ho di do
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