{"id":458,"date":"2018-09-18T08:43:39","date_gmt":"2018-09-18T12:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/graffiti-fall2018\/?p=458"},"modified":"2018-09-20T14:16:31","modified_gmt":"2018-09-20T18:16:31","slug":"look-again-4-6-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/graffiti-fall2018\/2018\/09\/18\/look-again-4-6-response\/","title":{"rendered":"Look Again! 4-6 Response"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This final section of D\u2019Alleva\u2019s text <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Look Again!<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> covered various critical theories that have emerged since the early 20th century, running the gamut from psychoanalysis and art to postmodernist theory. Though many of these theories differ and contradict one another in myriad ways, I found an intriguing commonality to be the way in which they pay attention to the viewer\u2019s reception\u2013\u2013whether psychological or contextual\u2013\u2013and interpretation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The text offers, under the subheading \u201cthe gaze,\u201d that \u201cto look is to assert power\u201d (D\u2019Alleva 106). Pairing this aphorism with E.H. Gombrich\u2019s take on reception, in which he argues, as paraphrased by the text, that \u201cno image tells its own story [&#8230;] the viewer actively completes the work of art,\u201d (109) we might infer that the work of art is not a static object, but an <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">object<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">-in-the-world (after Heidegger, qtd. 123). When gazed upon, visually decoded or encountered, the viewer engages with the work of art in a discursive and reciprocal relationship. The viewer brings to the encounter prior experiences, knowledge and biases which inform and influence his\/her\/their experience; from a hermeneutical lens, this viewer, far from an \u201cideal viewer,\u201d comes to \u00a0the encounter with the work of art in a specific moment \u201cin history and rooted in time\u201d (123). By looking, the viewer asserts power through the lens of these prior experiences. Simultaneously, as Barthes would argue, without the viewer there would be no \u201ctext\u201d (or work of art) to read (113). These theories, especially hermeneutics, will be useful in studying graffiti art over the course of this semester; they will assist me in analyzing and understanding my own positionality, the experiences and biases I have accrued over my life, and the particular moment in history, place, and time from which I am &#8220;reading&#8221; the graffiti.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In addition to reception theories I and II and hermeneutics, this section of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Look Again! <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">covered structuralism, post-structuralism, deconstruction, modernism and postmodernism. While I feel that I have a working knowledge of all, I would like to learn more about structuralism, post-structuralism and deconstruction in more detail. Having read Foucault within an anthropological context, I am familiar with his work on biopolitics and subjectivities, yet require additional examples of the application of his work in art history.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This final section of D\u2019Alleva\u2019s text Look Again! covered various critical theories that have emerged since the early 20th century, running the gamut from psychoanalysis and art to postmodernist theory. Though many of these theories differ and contradict one another in myriad ways, I found an intriguing commonality to be the way in which they &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/graffiti-fall2018\/2018\/09\/18\/look-again-4-6-response\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Look Again! 4-6 Response&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6919,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/graffiti-fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/graffiti-fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/graffiti-fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/graffiti-fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6919"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/graffiti-fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/graffiti-fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":471,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/graffiti-fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458\/revisions\/471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/graffiti-fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/graffiti-fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/graffiti-fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}