Perspectival Anthropology and the Method of Controlled Equivocati
The Breakdown of Perspectival Space (and the rise of Self-Reflexivity in Modern Art)
-
Upload
veda-everett -
Category
Documents
-
view
27 -
download
0
description
Transcript of The Breakdown of Perspectival Space (and the rise of Self-Reflexivity in Modern Art)
![Page 1: The Breakdown of Perspectival Space (and the rise of Self-Reflexivity in Modern Art)](https://reader035.fdocuments.us/reader035/viewer/2022062421/56812a57550346895d8db19f/html5/thumbnails/1.jpg)
The Breakdown of Perspectival Space
(and the rise of Self-Reflexivity in Modern Art)
![Page 2: The Breakdown of Perspectival Space (and the rise of Self-Reflexivity in Modern Art)](https://reader035.fdocuments.us/reader035/viewer/2022062421/56812a57550346895d8db19f/html5/thumbnails/2.jpg)
Surface Depth Surface
Medieval Renaissance Modernism500 -1300 1300 -1600 1850 -1960
![Page 3: The Breakdown of Perspectival Space (and the rise of Self-Reflexivity in Modern Art)](https://reader035.fdocuments.us/reader035/viewer/2022062421/56812a57550346895d8db19f/html5/thumbnails/3.jpg)
Early Renaissance
![Page 4: The Breakdown of Perspectival Space (and the rise of Self-Reflexivity in Modern Art)](https://reader035.fdocuments.us/reader035/viewer/2022062421/56812a57550346895d8db19f/html5/thumbnails/4.jpg)
Early Renaissance
The Annunciation,
Fra Carnevale (1448)
![Page 5: The Breakdown of Perspectival Space (and the rise of Self-Reflexivity in Modern Art)](https://reader035.fdocuments.us/reader035/viewer/2022062421/56812a57550346895d8db19f/html5/thumbnails/5.jpg)
Early Renaissance
Flagellation of Christ, Piero Della Francesca (1450)
![Page 6: The Breakdown of Perspectival Space (and the rise of Self-Reflexivity in Modern Art)](https://reader035.fdocuments.us/reader035/viewer/2022062421/56812a57550346895d8db19f/html5/thumbnails/6.jpg)
![Page 7: The Breakdown of Perspectival Space (and the rise of Self-Reflexivity in Modern Art)](https://reader035.fdocuments.us/reader035/viewer/2022062421/56812a57550346895d8db19f/html5/thumbnails/7.jpg)
The Ideal City
![Page 8: The Breakdown of Perspectival Space (and the rise of Self-Reflexivity in Modern Art)](https://reader035.fdocuments.us/reader035/viewer/2022062421/56812a57550346895d8db19f/html5/thumbnails/8.jpg)
EarlyRenaissance
Madonna of Chancellor Rolin, Jan Van Eyck (1435)
People slowlybecome more“Naturally” depictedin that space.
![Page 9: The Breakdown of Perspectival Space (and the rise of Self-Reflexivity in Modern Art)](https://reader035.fdocuments.us/reader035/viewer/2022062421/56812a57550346895d8db19f/html5/thumbnails/9.jpg)
More “Naturally” depicted.
![Page 10: The Breakdown of Perspectival Space (and the rise of Self-Reflexivity in Modern Art)](https://reader035.fdocuments.us/reader035/viewer/2022062421/56812a57550346895d8db19f/html5/thumbnails/10.jpg)
Early Renaissance
The Arnolfini Portrait,
Jan Van Eyck (1434)
![Page 11: The Breakdown of Perspectival Space (and the rise of Self-Reflexivity in Modern Art)](https://reader035.fdocuments.us/reader035/viewer/2022062421/56812a57550346895d8db19f/html5/thumbnails/11.jpg)
Early Renaissance
The Arnolfini Portrait,
Jan Van Eyck (1434)
![Page 12: The Breakdown of Perspectival Space (and the rise of Self-Reflexivity in Modern Art)](https://reader035.fdocuments.us/reader035/viewer/2022062421/56812a57550346895d8db19f/html5/thumbnails/12.jpg)
Renaissance
![Page 13: The Breakdown of Perspectival Space (and the rise of Self-Reflexivity in Modern Art)](https://reader035.fdocuments.us/reader035/viewer/2022062421/56812a57550346895d8db19f/html5/thumbnails/13.jpg)
Renaissance
Bodies eventually get fleshed out.
![Page 14: The Breakdown of Perspectival Space (and the rise of Self-Reflexivity in Modern Art)](https://reader035.fdocuments.us/reader035/viewer/2022062421/56812a57550346895d8db19f/html5/thumbnails/14.jpg)
Renaissance
Vanitas/ Still-Life, Pieter Claeszoon (1630)
High level of articulated detail.
![Page 15: The Breakdown of Perspectival Space (and the rise of Self-Reflexivity in Modern Art)](https://reader035.fdocuments.us/reader035/viewer/2022062421/56812a57550346895d8db19f/html5/thumbnails/15.jpg)
Renaissance
Vanitas/ Still-Life, Pieter Claeszoon (1630)
High level of articulated detail.
![Page 16: The Breakdown of Perspectival Space (and the rise of Self-Reflexivity in Modern Art)](https://reader035.fdocuments.us/reader035/viewer/2022062421/56812a57550346895d8db19f/html5/thumbnails/16.jpg)
Renaissance
Vanitas/ Still-Life, Pieter Claeszoon (1630)
High level of articulated detail.
![Page 17: The Breakdown of Perspectival Space (and the rise of Self-Reflexivity in Modern Art)](https://reader035.fdocuments.us/reader035/viewer/2022062421/56812a57550346895d8db19f/html5/thumbnails/17.jpg)
Surface Depth Surface
Medieval Renaissance Modernism500 -1300 1300 -1600 1850 -1960
![Page 18: The Breakdown of Perspectival Space (and the rise of Self-Reflexivity in Modern Art)](https://reader035.fdocuments.us/reader035/viewer/2022062421/56812a57550346895d8db19f/html5/thumbnails/18.jpg)
Renaissance Modernism1300 -1600 1850 -1960
Rococo
![Page 19: The Breakdown of Perspectival Space (and the rise of Self-Reflexivity in Modern Art)](https://reader035.fdocuments.us/reader035/viewer/2022062421/56812a57550346895d8db19f/html5/thumbnails/19.jpg)
Renaissance Modernism1300 -1600 1850 -1960
Symbolism
![Page 20: The Breakdown of Perspectival Space (and the rise of Self-Reflexivity in Modern Art)](https://reader035.fdocuments.us/reader035/viewer/2022062421/56812a57550346895d8db19f/html5/thumbnails/20.jpg)
Renaissance Modernism1300 -1600 1850 -1960
Romanticism
![Page 21: The Breakdown of Perspectival Space (and the rise of Self-Reflexivity in Modern Art)](https://reader035.fdocuments.us/reader035/viewer/2022062421/56812a57550346895d8db19f/html5/thumbnails/21.jpg)
Early Modernism
![Page 22: The Breakdown of Perspectival Space (and the rise of Self-Reflexivity in Modern Art)](https://reader035.fdocuments.us/reader035/viewer/2022062421/56812a57550346895d8db19f/html5/thumbnails/22.jpg)
Early Modernism
Oath of the Horatii, Jacques-Louis David (1784)
•Two Planes•Theatrically Staged
![Page 23: The Breakdown of Perspectival Space (and the rise of Self-Reflexivity in Modern Art)](https://reader035.fdocuments.us/reader035/viewer/2022062421/56812a57550346895d8db19f/html5/thumbnails/23.jpg)
Early Modernism
Death of Marat, Jacques-Louis David (1784)
•ForegroundNo background
![Page 24: The Breakdown of Perspectival Space (and the rise of Self-Reflexivity in Modern Art)](https://reader035.fdocuments.us/reader035/viewer/2022062421/56812a57550346895d8db19f/html5/thumbnails/24.jpg)
Early Modernism
Raft of the Medusa, Théodore Géricault, (1818–1819)
•Pile of PeopleBlobby forms
![Page 25: The Breakdown of Perspectival Space (and the rise of Self-Reflexivity in Modern Art)](https://reader035.fdocuments.us/reader035/viewer/2022062421/56812a57550346895d8db19f/html5/thumbnails/25.jpg)
Early Modernism
Orphan Girl at the Cemetery, Delacroix (1824)
![Page 26: The Breakdown of Perspectival Space (and the rise of Self-Reflexivity in Modern Art)](https://reader035.fdocuments.us/reader035/viewer/2022062421/56812a57550346895d8db19f/html5/thumbnails/26.jpg)
Early Modernism
•HyperrealismLarge EyesColor
![Page 27: The Breakdown of Perspectival Space (and the rise of Self-Reflexivity in Modern Art)](https://reader035.fdocuments.us/reader035/viewer/2022062421/56812a57550346895d8db19f/html5/thumbnails/27.jpg)
Early Modernism
Massacre at Chios,Massacre at Chios,Eugène DelacroixEugène Delacroix
(1824)(1824)
![Page 28: The Breakdown of Perspectival Space (and the rise of Self-Reflexivity in Modern Art)](https://reader035.fdocuments.us/reader035/viewer/2022062421/56812a57550346895d8db19f/html5/thumbnails/28.jpg)
Early Modernism
Oath of the Horatii, Delacroix (1824)
•Too Real, Harsh“Attack on Art”
Massacre at Chios,Massacre at Chios, Eugène Delacroix (1824) Eugène Delacroix (1824)
Early Modernism
![Page 29: The Breakdown of Perspectival Space (and the rise of Self-Reflexivity in Modern Art)](https://reader035.fdocuments.us/reader035/viewer/2022062421/56812a57550346895d8db19f/html5/thumbnails/29.jpg)
Early Modernism
The Fighting Téméraire tugged to her last Berth to be broken J. M. W. Turner (1838)
•Surface EmphasisPre-Impressionism
![Page 30: The Breakdown of Perspectival Space (and the rise of Self-Reflexivity in Modern Art)](https://reader035.fdocuments.us/reader035/viewer/2022062421/56812a57550346895d8db19f/html5/thumbnails/30.jpg)
Early Modernism
The Fighting Téméraire tugged to her last Berth to be broken J. M. W. Turner (1838)
•Surface EmphasisPre-Impressionism
![Page 31: The Breakdown of Perspectival Space (and the rise of Self-Reflexivity in Modern Art)](https://reader035.fdocuments.us/reader035/viewer/2022062421/56812a57550346895d8db19f/html5/thumbnails/31.jpg)
Modernism
![Page 32: The Breakdown of Perspectival Space (and the rise of Self-Reflexivity in Modern Art)](https://reader035.fdocuments.us/reader035/viewer/2022062421/56812a57550346895d8db19f/html5/thumbnails/32.jpg)
Modernism
The Luncheon on the Grass, Édouard Manet (1863)
![Page 33: The Breakdown of Perspectival Space (and the rise of Self-Reflexivity in Modern Art)](https://reader035.fdocuments.us/reader035/viewer/2022062421/56812a57550346895d8db19f/html5/thumbnails/33.jpg)
Modernism
The Luncheon on the Grass, Édouard Manet (1863)
• Nude & dressed men (in contemporary setting)Nude & dressed men (in contemporary setting)• Combination of GenresCombination of Genres
– still life, landscape, nude, portraiturestill life, landscape, nude, portraiture
• Background figure too largeBackground figure too large• Nude is washed outNude is washed out
Modernism
![Page 34: The Breakdown of Perspectival Space (and the rise of Self-Reflexivity in Modern Art)](https://reader035.fdocuments.us/reader035/viewer/2022062421/56812a57550346895d8db19f/html5/thumbnails/34.jpg)
Modernism
The Luncheon on the Grass, Édouard Manet (1863)
In 1863 Painting with a capital “P” was born.
It was now a Medium.
Modernism
![Page 35: The Breakdown of Perspectival Space (and the rise of Self-Reflexivity in Modern Art)](https://reader035.fdocuments.us/reader035/viewer/2022062421/56812a57550346895d8db19f/html5/thumbnails/35.jpg)
Modernism
• Never prior to Manet had the breach between the taste of the public and changing types of beauty—which art continually renews—been so conclusively final. With Manet began the days of wrath, of those outbursts of scorn and derision with which, ever since, the public has greeted each successive rejuvenation of beauty.
—George Bataille
![Page 36: The Breakdown of Perspectival Space (and the rise of Self-Reflexivity in Modern Art)](https://reader035.fdocuments.us/reader035/viewer/2022062421/56812a57550346895d8db19f/html5/thumbnails/36.jpg)
Olympia, Édouard Manet (1863)
Modernism
![Page 37: The Breakdown of Perspectival Space (and the rise of Self-Reflexivity in Modern Art)](https://reader035.fdocuments.us/reader035/viewer/2022062421/56812a57550346895d8db19f/html5/thumbnails/37.jpg)
Modernism
• Reference Venus de Urbino
• Contemporary prostitute slippers
• Washed out skin• Look “matter of
factly” at viewer• Cold, strong,
young, prostitute
Olympia, Édouard Manet (1863)
![Page 38: The Breakdown of Perspectival Space (and the rise of Self-Reflexivity in Modern Art)](https://reader035.fdocuments.us/reader035/viewer/2022062421/56812a57550346895d8db19f/html5/thumbnails/38.jpg)
Modernism
Olympia, Édouard Manet (1863)
![Page 39: The Breakdown of Perspectival Space (and the rise of Self-Reflexivity in Modern Art)](https://reader035.fdocuments.us/reader035/viewer/2022062421/56812a57550346895d8db19f/html5/thumbnails/39.jpg)
Modernism
• The laughter that lay in wait for Olympia was something unprecedented; here was the first masterpiece before which the crowd fairly lost all control of itself.
—George Bataille
Olympia, Édouard Manet (1863)
![Page 40: The Breakdown of Perspectival Space (and the rise of Self-Reflexivity in Modern Art)](https://reader035.fdocuments.us/reader035/viewer/2022062421/56812a57550346895d8db19f/html5/thumbnails/40.jpg)
Modernism
• Jean Ravenel, art critic, “What on earth is this yellow-bellied odalisque, this wretched model picked up God knows where and pawned off as representing Olympia?”
Olympia, Édouard Manet (1863)
![Page 41: The Breakdown of Perspectival Space (and the rise of Self-Reflexivity in Modern Art)](https://reader035.fdocuments.us/reader035/viewer/2022062421/56812a57550346895d8db19f/html5/thumbnails/41.jpg)
Modernism
• Paul de Saint-Victor, art critic, “The crowd gathers round Monsieur Manet's highly spiced Olympia as it would round a body at the morgue.”
Olympia, Édouard Manet (1863)
![Page 42: The Breakdown of Perspectival Space (and the rise of Self-Reflexivity in Modern Art)](https://reader035.fdocuments.us/reader035/viewer/2022062421/56812a57550346895d8db19f/html5/thumbnails/42.jpg)
Modernism
• Painters, and especially Édouard Manet, who is an analytic painter, do not share the masses' obsession with the subject: to them, the subject is only a pretext to paint, whereas for the masses only the subject exists.
— Emile Zola, 1867
Olympia, Édouard Manet (1863)
![Page 43: The Breakdown of Perspectival Space (and the rise of Self-Reflexivity in Modern Art)](https://reader035.fdocuments.us/reader035/viewer/2022062421/56812a57550346895d8db19f/html5/thumbnails/43.jpg)
Modernism
• Her real nudity (not merely that of her body) is the silence that emanates from her, like that from a sunken ship. All we have is the “sacred horror” of her presence .
Olympia, Édouard Manet (1863)
![Page 44: The Breakdown of Perspectival Space (and the rise of Self-Reflexivity in Modern Art)](https://reader035.fdocuments.us/reader035/viewer/2022062421/56812a57550346895d8db19f/html5/thumbnails/44.jpg)
Modernism
• Her real nudity (not merely that of her body) is the silence that emanates from her, like that from a sunken ship. All we have is the “sacred horror” of her presence—presence whose sheer simplicity is tantamount to absence. Her harsh realism—which, for the Salon public, was no more than a gorilla-like ugliness—is inseparable from the concern Manet had to reduce what he saw to the mute and utter simplicity of what was there.
Olympia, Édouard Manet (1863)
![Page 45: The Breakdown of Perspectival Space (and the rise of Self-Reflexivity in Modern Art)](https://reader035.fdocuments.us/reader035/viewer/2022062421/56812a57550346895d8db19f/html5/thumbnails/45.jpg)
Modernism
• Viewer is propositioning barmaid
• Bored, resigned expression
• Snap-shot-like composition (feet in corner)
• Impossible mirror image
A Bar at the Folies-Bergère, Édouard Manet (1881-2)
![Page 46: The Breakdown of Perspectival Space (and the rise of Self-Reflexivity in Modern Art)](https://reader035.fdocuments.us/reader035/viewer/2022062421/56812a57550346895d8db19f/html5/thumbnails/46.jpg)
Modernism
• Manet, from the very start, had put the image of man on the same footing as that of roses or buns.
• —George Bataille
![Page 47: The Breakdown of Perspectival Space (and the rise of Self-Reflexivity in Modern Art)](https://reader035.fdocuments.us/reader035/viewer/2022062421/56812a57550346895d8db19f/html5/thumbnails/47.jpg)
Arcadia(a videogame that combines genres)
• Created by Gamelab at MIT• http://www.shockwave.com/gamelanding/arcadia.jsp