GENED 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Diego Rivera, Spike Lee, Sugarcane
23 Jan 2017
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Pompidou center, paris, renzo piano and richard rogers 1971 78. Building should reflect something about it. with moveable walls. Supposed to make people question what architecture is. Meant to suggest visual chaos of our time. Futuristic, hearkens back to style of future itself. Appears as an immense sculpture in the urban landscape. Write music that cannot ever be played. to be universally liked. changes in the tones, music. Controversial because this art is conventional, rather than avant garde art of the time. Octave broken into a number of different tones. Tell the story of african american life in the u. s. A. a. culture, life, along with lynching, working. humiliation of black life in the u. s. Speaks about life, love, hate, despair. tribal dance and urban experience. Until 1997-8, a. a. film was only stereotypes (bullshit). Start to look at a. a. movement in and of itself. Poor communities, so worked with anything. side of many battles, life on the reservation.
