Tuesday, September 11, 2012

M A X ' S L E C T U R E S

RESEARCH AND THEORY BOOKS mentioned

  • Kristeller, Paul Oskar, "The Modern System of Arts" (1951/1952). Republished in Kivy (ed), Essays in the History of Aesthetics.
  • Tatarkiewicz, Wladyslaw: History of Six Ideas (1979) 
  • Huyssen, Andrea: The Great Divide (1986)
  • O'Doherty, Brian: Inside the White Cube (1976) 
  • Battersby, Christine: Gender and Genius (1989)
  • Woodmansee, Martha: The Author, Art, and the Market (1994) 
  • Danto, Arthur: The Artworld (1964)


CLASSICS mentioned

  • Baumgarten, Alexander G.: Aesthetics (1758)
  • Castiglione, Baldassar: The Courtier (1528)

Research area

Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Optical toys

Thaumatrope



Phenakistoscope, zoetrope, etc.







Panopticon

The Panopticon is a machine for dissociating the see/being seen dyad: in the peripheric ring, one is totally seen, without ever seeing; in the central tower, one sees everything without ever being seen.
(Michel Foucault, 1975, Discipline and punish / Tarkkailla ja rangaista)


Monday, September 3, 2012

Vision and visuality

Jay, Martin (1988). Scopic regimes of modernity. In H. Foster (Ed.) Vision and visuality. Seattle: Bay Press

Peter Greenaway: The Draughtsman's Contract



Alfred Hitchcock: Rear Window



Laura Mulvey: Visual pleasure and narrative cinema (1975)
- phallocentrism: film and cinematography are structured upon the ideas and values of patriarchy
- scopophilia and gaze

For Finnish readers: Kupiainen, Reijo (2005). Elokuva ja tosin katsomisen mahdollisuus. Synnyt 2/2005.