Frank Buam’s invention of visual display of merchandises. Its silver screen acts as the shop windows showing people the new modern world of commodity consumption turning people within the society to become commodity spectators and luring them into practicing consumerism so that they
The elephant in the Art room The mother the other Addressing the elephant in the Art room Linda Nochlin posed the question in her 1971 article “Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists? Arguing it was necessary to question “the unstated domination of white male subjectivity” that shaped the art historical canon; the article explored the reasons for the severe asymmetry of female to male artists throughout the course of art history. When examining western art as viewed through the canon one must
The promotion of these two unique points can be understood. The new fabric technology has been promoted on social media and the online shopping website through videos and images. Uniqlo has used its products to build colourful visual effects in store and the window displays to promote itself. Uniqlo promotes its products in different ways to improve the awareness of the public. If the public is aware of and interested in Uniqlo’s products, the company can make more sales, which
Introduction This essay seeks to discuss the ethics and social impacts of journalism practices today. To achieve this, it provides an overview of photojournalism, image manipulation, journalism objectivity and the use of image made by citizen journalists. Similar to editors, writers and news reporters, photojournalists are equally held to a standard of ethics to guide their profession. In the modern media practice, photojournalism refers to the process that entails the gathering, analysing, and disseminating
Postmodernism is a complicated term, or set of ideas, one that has only emerged as an area of academic study since the mid-1980s. Postmodernism is hard to define, because it is a concept that appears in a wide variety of disciplines or areas of study, including art, architecture, music, film, literature, sociology, communications, fashion, and technology. It's hard to locate it temporally or historically, because it's not clear exactly when postmodernism begins. BACKGROUND History on Modernism
1. INTRODUCTION If we see our passage on earth as a theatrical play, what snapshots of our experiences would we wish to share with our contemporaries? At the core of this class is the desire to go deep within ourselves and explore how we can artistically and critically materialize the intimate relationship between our body/mind and the arts. Some of the situated questions we will raise are, for example: What aesthetic principles underlie and inform our practices? How do we see the boundaries between