HISTART 180C Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Georges Seurat
10 Nov 2016
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History of art 180c lecture 17 spectacle, machines, technologies (and translations. Questions as to the status of women in french society. The horror and preoccupation with the difference of women"s bodies (when compared to men) The potential women had to lead men into deviance (corrupt sexuality) The undoing of a healthy gender imbalance zola. Seurat, the dance: addition of a mechanistic aspect to women"s figures, the crossing of the human and the technological, display the presence of misogynistic, patriarchal forces. Photography impacted sculpture in a profound way. The camera had the ability to affect and create sculpture. Process: someone came, sat down, had 24 photos taken (in the round, capturing all angles of the body), and then waited while someone labored to turn the photos into a sculpture. The problem with assuming photography can make sculpture: the flatness of photographs, scale, photos are tonal and thus lack precise edges.
