{"id":510,"date":"2018-10-01T19:08:45","date_gmt":"2018-10-01T23:08:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/graffiti-fall2018\/?p=510"},"modified":"2018-10-01T19:08:45","modified_gmt":"2018-10-01T23:08:45","slug":"look-again-thoughts-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/graffiti-fall2018\/2018\/10\/01\/look-again-thoughts-notes\/","title":{"rendered":"Look Again! Thoughts &amp; Notes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Relationships between Art History and Critical Theory<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Heinrich Wolfflin (1864-1945; Swiss Scholar; p.2)\n<ul>\n<li>Influential in development of formal analysis in AH<\/li>\n<li>Painterly vs. Linear: Objective classifying principles<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>What are the wider implications of chosen theory<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Discourse&#8221; as &#8220;Language&#8221;\n<ul>\n<li>Produced and Analyzed<\/li>\n<li>Terry Eagleton &#8211; Literary theorist\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Language grasped as utterance&#8230;&#8221; (p.9)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Theory is a discourse &#8211; web of many intersecting discourses\n<ul>\n<li>Complexity (science)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Record of Activity\n<ul>\n<li>Synchronic &#8211; Present (x-axis)<\/li>\n<li>Diachronic &#8211; Historical (y-axis)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Theory &#8211; Generally&#8230;\n<ul>\n<li>Enlarges perspective<\/li>\n<li>Promotes formulation of new questions<\/li>\n<li>Allows for better understanding of subject<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>General importance of CONTEXT&#8230;\n<ul>\n<li>Social Conditions and Power Structures\n<ul>\n<li>Ex. Social construction of power<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Class Structure &amp; Social Hierarchy<\/li>\n<li>Who makes interpretations<\/li>\n<li>Who? Why? What? &#8212; led to generation of theory\/discourse<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Historical Paradigms<\/li>\n<li>Influence of Institutions<\/li>\n<li>Individual experience and agency\n<ul>\n<li>Ex. Behavioral changes<\/li>\n<li>Points of view &#8212; All different&#8230;\n<ul>\n<li>Individual<\/li>\n<li>Cultural<\/li>\n<li>Familial<\/li>\n<li>Historical<\/li>\n<li>Space, time, place, people<\/li>\n<li>Forms\/shapes responses&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Difference in global perspectives<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Theory vs Methodology\n<ul>\n<li>Theory\n<ul>\n<li>Process of questioning leading to new questions<\/li>\n<li>Research questions<\/li>\n<li>Framework<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Methodology\n<ul>\n<li>Set of procedures (rules)<\/li>\n<li>Characterize an Academic Discipline<\/li>\n<li>Framework for theories<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Psychology, Perception of Art, &amp; Psychoanalysis\n<ul>\n<li>Psychoanalysis (broadly) = philosophy of human consciousness; social and individual<\/li>\n<li>Sigmund Freud (1856-1939; p.88)\n<ul>\n<li>Father of psychoanalysis<\/li>\n<li>macro and micro theoretical approaches trying to understand and answer the questions of human consciousness<\/li>\n<li>methodology under which theoretical approaches ask questions in attempt to unlock the mystery of our mind<\/li>\n<li>Used psychoanalysis to analyze\n<ul>\n<li>Content, subject matter<\/li>\n<li>Artist relation to work<\/li>\n<li>Viewer relation to work<\/li>\n<li>Nature of creativity<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>CON &#8211; Lack of contextual analysis in favor of universal\u00a0ideas<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Jacques Lacan (1901-1981, French Psychoanalyst; p.96)\n<ul>\n<li>Updated Freud&#8217;s psychoanalytic theory<\/li>\n<li>How\u00a0 illusion of self comes into being<\/li>\n<li>Unconscious structured like language<\/li>\n<li>Issues of socially normative expectations and roles<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Hermeneutics &#8211; ways of thinking about thinking\n<ul>\n<li>Polysemous &#8211; &#8220;of many senses&#8221;\n<ul>\n<li>Layers of meaning<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Consciousness shaped by context<\/li>\n<li>Art as opening being &#8211; exists in\/creates cultural space within context of viewer perception<\/li>\n<li>Art functions to shape viewer experience?<\/li>\n<li>Preconceived notions as variable when considering how viewer interprets and perceives art<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Myth&#8221; as phenomena with &#8220;structuralism&#8221; giving meaning and structure<\/li>\n<li>Discourse produces power\n<ul>\n<li>Shaped and perpetuates specific class\/social dialogs<\/li>\n<li>Knowledge secures power<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Deconstruction\n<ul>\n<li>Construction of meaning<\/li>\n<li>Exposes binary oppositions<\/li>\n<li>Signs aquire meaning by differing from signified<\/li>\n<li>meaning constantly floating, deferred<\/li>\n<li>Meaning in motion &#8212; straight forward meaning is an illusion<\/li>\n<li>Meaning relative to context<\/li>\n<li>Absolute meaning is a fallacy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Relationships between Art History and Critical Theory Heinrich Wolfflin (1864-1945; Swiss Scholar; p.2) Influential in development of formal analysis in AH Painterly vs. Linear: Objective classifying principles What are the wider implications of chosen theory &#8220;Discourse&#8221; as &#8220;Language&#8221; Produced and Analyzed Terry Eagleton &#8211; Literary theorist &#8220;Language grasped as utterance&#8230;&#8221; (p.9) Theory is a discourse &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/graffiti-fall2018\/2018\/10\/01\/look-again-thoughts-notes\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Look Again! 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