Bricolage is the method of taking whatever is at hand, and creating something new with it. Braconnage is poaching, or as Jo Applin uses the word, taking your own interpretation of art. “The significance of Friedman’s work lies in the conceptual strategies of assemblage and bricolage that he shows”, Applin believes. Recycling is the core of many of Friedman’s artworks. For example, in 1990, he made a monochrome from a Playboy centerfold by erasing the ink to leave the worn down piece of paper underneath.
Fadiman is constantly making cultural comparisons between the Hmong and American cultures. More importantly she seems to have developed a formula that starts with immersion and ends with promotion. The Hmong culture is relayed to us through Fadiman's words and then promotes the Hmong people's way of life. Throughout the book she believes that she is giving an un-biased, journalist type account of Lia's struggle. However, Fadiman's bias towards the Hmong people reveals itself early on in the novel when she juxtaposes each cultures treatment of epileptics and infants.
Name: Tutor: Course: Date: The works of Vincent van Gogh and sol LeWitt and Japanese influence on European art 1. In drawing a comparison and contrast between the works of Vincent van Gogh and sol LeWitt, Vincent van Gogh’s application of symbolic colors and paint to express subjective emotion have created the basis of defining abstract expressionism, which started with the Americans after the World War II movement of art creation and presentation. LeWitt’s work, on the other hand, has been used as a basis for the use of traditional art materials during the creation of artworks. However, his use of traditional art materials had been improved, to involve the use of digital technology and computers to create and edit these materials. Some
I will try to show how this is relevant, according to Gitlin, to America’s triumphant capitalistic culture that has been and continues to be built on advertising, slogans, headlines, comic strips, TV and radio. In the conclusion part of my paper I shall focus on whether I see this dominant process of Americanization as a threat to the rest of the world, as an invitation to another’s cultures freedom or simply as a predominant source of pleasure. I shall examine both the advantages and limitations of what Gitlin defines as America’s celebrated
He argued that social development studies showed changes in their social behaviors and their interactions once in their new environment. Thus, he concluded that the new society was uniquely America. He has a very valid argument, but I believe he could have maintained the strength of his argument while also including the fact that the American people coming from British roots, the Puritans, the Royalist elites, the North Midlanders of England and the North British and Irish were still unique as a sub-culture melded together by the choice for religious and economic freedom. The pursuit to own land and accumulate wealth, and not be under the rule of the crown was first and foremost in the early colonists minds. Fisher rests his entire point of view based on the roots of the four British folkways that separated the settlers in America.
Andy Warhol (1928-1987) and the Pop-Art Movement Andy Warhol a significant artist in the Pop-Art movement, often referred to as the “artist who personified Pop Art”. The Pop-Art movement emerged during the mid-1950s and was characterised by bold, simple everyday imagery and vibrant colours of consumerism and popular culture. Many Pop-Artworks challenged the traditional beliefs of those engaging in fine art, being the first Post-Modernist movement to reflect the power of film and television which were significant influences for Pop iconography. The bright colour schemes used in modern Pop-artworks emphasised elements of contemporary culture, allowing distinct differentiation between the commercial and the fine arts. Creating a form of art portraying instant meaning was the motif behind Pop-art, directly contrasting with the super-intellectualism required of Abstract Expressionism.
How does Dawe’s poetry challenge us to be critical of consumerism? Consumerism is the process of selling, advertising and promoting goods and services. Society tends to become acquisitive, that is, it becomes a desire to acquire and possess goods and services. Consumerism is suggested to be an obsessive consumption of goods because of the ‘ism’ associated. Bruce Dawe describes the negative aspaects of consumerism in the poems: Enter Without So Much As Knocking; Televistas and Americanized.
Blade Runner and Frankenstein Finished First Draft. Different authors throughout time shape their ideas while reflecting the world and society they live in. Comparing different texts relaying these idea enhances our understanding. The gothic tale of Mary Shelleys Frankenstein is influenced by the rapid industrial growth of the early 18th century while Ridley Scotts Tech-Noir Blade Runner is effected by the growth of major companies and consumerism in the 1980s. Shelley and Ridley are two authors who challenged the idea of what it means to be human, making the audience reflect on their own personal understandings of the question.
Vietnam helped Americans draw from experience new lessons that drastically reformed the society during the 1960 and 1970s, and called to attention the questioning of beliefs and morals. It demonstrated how war was a threat to economic growth, social stability, and politics, as well as how difficult restoration of such changes
The late nineteenth century in the United States saw the peak of buzz and commotion that is commonly referred to as the Industrial Revolution. Caught deep within the gears of this mechanized movement, both socially and financially, was one Samuel Langhorne Clemens, best known as Mark Twain. Twain's ideas on industrialization were based on practical experience, due in part to heavy investment in, and loss from, a newly developed type-setting machine as well as an acute interest in the universal ramifications of such modernization (Kaplan 12). It is among such an economically turbulent and technologically elevated era that Twain conceived, wrote, and published the critically complex A Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur's Court. Twain's vision of sixth century England is seen through the eyes of "Yankee" Hank Morgan.