“What matters now is who uses that language and for what purpose.”.In its place there is a language of images.” “The art of the past no longer exists as it once did.
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So we see that reproduction has separated the artwork and the image and granted images new meanings through allowing them new contexts.Goya and channel hopping, episode 1, 18:40 – 20:52 We’re able, in a sense, to remix art to create new meanings, just as the pioneers of hip-hop isolated drum breaks using turntables and then samplers to build a fresh sound.And like language, images can be used, through manipulation and juxtaposition, to say things in a way that they couldn’t when they belonged solely to the artwork and its privileged owner.surround us in the same way that language surrounds us.” “For the first time ever, images of art have become ephemeral, ubiquitous, insubstantial, available, valueless, free.”.No longer must we travel to the art piece itself to receive its image and its meaning. “In the age of pictorial reproduction the meaning of paintings is no longer attached to them: that is to say it becomes information of a sort” Information is transmittable.
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Ironically, the copyright of the works shown as reproductions in the TV shows prevents the series from being available on DVD, so the four episodes can only be found in lo-res moody YouTube uploads. 45 years later Ways of Seeing is best known because of the paperback co-produced by BBC Publications and Penguin.He was influenced by Marx’s ideas of class struggle and considered art historians like Kenneth Clark (Civilisation) “a privileged minority…striving to invent a history which can retrospectively justify the role of the ruling classes.” This perspective influenced Ways of Seeing in style and substance Berger displays an uncanny ability to describe complex ideas in beautifully lucid terms, using the language of images as much as the language of words. Berger’s message and style were radical.It was broadcast on BBC Two in January 1972 and adapted into a book of the same name. Ways of Seeing is a 1972 television series of 30-minute films created chiefly by writer John Berger and producer Mike Dibb.Times Magazine clip, episode 4, 21:28 – 25:28, Here Berger explores what effect “publicity” (advertising) and its river of dissatisfying fantasy might have on the meaning How do these images change our relationship with reality? What effect does being surrounded by these dreams have? Where in the past wealthy collectors owned beauty… Statements of fact), to a statement of desirability Ownership, of wealth, of power (all of which are Images have gone from making a statement of Oil painting operated in Western culture. In fact, a statement of ownership, of wealth and power, was the principal way They are landowners and their proprietary attitude towards what surrounds them is visible in Mr and Mrs Andrews by Thomas Gainsborough are “not a couple in nature as Rousseau imagined “What matters now is who uses that language and for what purpose.”ĭo you think that context informs meaning? “The art of the past no longer exists as it once did. Using turntables and then samplers to build a fresh sound. We’re able, in a sense, to remix art to create new meanings, just as the pioneers of hip-hop isolated drum breaks
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