ARTH 301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Stan Douglas, Arcades Project, Portrait Painting
11 Dec 2017
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Benjamin describes art in 1930s, art is painting, sculpture and architecture. He points us in the direction that photography was considered a new technology, not art. Presumption that there is a privilege space that academic mediums have over the new technologies. Is photography and film art today? (cid:498)art will no longer find the time to adapt to technological progress(cid:499). We can actually see in photography that concept of what can be considered artistic practices, if we take photography and film as primary examples, they became absurd into our understanding of the art object. Relationships and understand art becomes different with depicting human body in motion. Portrait painting became less important when photography came by capturing realistic images. Art has become conceptual because of technological progresses. Technology is advancing faster than art, art in complex conversation with technology and informing innovation.
