Visual Culture
According to my lecturer:
There are three main concepts when referring to culture.
Cities of culture
The culture show
Culture vulture
We are given two contrasting statements about culture. One is a inclusive view and one is exclusive, this is what lies at the heart of the concept of culture.
‘Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it always meant; ignoble civilisation and therefore imminent downfall - Frank Lloyd Wright.
This being an exclusive view as he is talking about high culture.
‘Whoever controls the media, the images, controls the culture’ - Allen Ginsberg
This view is inclusive view as he is talking about a wide world issue. Media affects society greatly and therefore whoever controls it, also controls the culture, there are in a powerful position.
1950s is a divider line where after culture can mean anything. Before this culture would only be used when talking about high society classic, iconic highly valued things.
The idea of Civilisation and the culture within it is generally contrasted by nature, which doesn't conform toculture. Or does it? Think about the moon. Your not just thinking about the silver object as a paint splodge in the black background. You think about the space men, and if you can see the flag and everything you know about the moon. It is saturated by knowledge learnt from our culture. Everything we see in nature is represented by a name and an image/symbol engrained into this knowledge which has come from ourculture. 'Language saturates our universe that we never get away from culture'. Is it possible to not be influence by our knowledge?
Malinowski studied a tribal island in New Guinea in 1918. He was able to treat it objectively as it was a different culture. He believes you can not truly study your own culture as you are part of it. This is most definitely true as you won't be able to study objectively, it will be biased towards your own opinions. Like we have just discussed, your knowledge is based on your culture and you apply your knowledge to everything you do.
There are three main concepts when referring to culture.
Cities of culture
The culture show
Culture vulture
We are given two contrasting statements about culture. One is a inclusive view and one is exclusive, this is what lies at the heart of the concept of culture.
‘Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it always meant; ignoble civilisation and therefore imminent downfall - Frank Lloyd Wright.
This being an exclusive view as he is talking about high culture.
‘Whoever controls the media, the images, controls the culture’ - Allen Ginsberg
This view is inclusive view as he is talking about a wide world issue. Media affects society greatly and therefore whoever controls it, also controls the culture, there are in a powerful position.
1950s is a divider line where after culture can mean anything. Before this culture would only be used when talking about high society classic, iconic highly valued things.
The idea of Civilisation and the culture within it is generally contrasted by nature, which doesn't conform toculture. Or does it? Think about the moon. Your not just thinking about the silver object as a paint splodge in the black background. You think about the space men, and if you can see the flag and everything you know about the moon. It is saturated by knowledge learnt from our culture. Everything we see in nature is represented by a name and an image/symbol engrained into this knowledge which has come from ourculture. 'Language saturates our universe that we never get away from culture'. Is it possible to not be influence by our knowledge?
Malinowski studied a tribal island in New Guinea in 1918. He was able to treat it objectively as it was a different culture. He believes you can not truly study your own culture as you are part of it. This is most definitely true as you won't be able to study objectively, it will be biased towards your own opinions. Like we have just discussed, your knowledge is based on your culture and you apply your knowledge to everything you do.
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