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Chapter4 deriving meaning inet
- 1. Deriving Meaning Criticism and Analysis
- 2. Form & Content • Form= visual, art elements, principles of art • Content= interpretation of themes, messages • Subject Matter • Context • Subtext
- 3. • Janine Antoni Gnaw, 1992 six hundred pounds of chocolate before biting six hundred pounds of lard before biting Consider the possible subtext and context of Antoni’s art.
- 4. Iconography • Visual METAPHOR-image or element that is descriptive of something else. • SYMBOL-image or element that stands for or represents some other entity or concept. • ICONOGRAPHY-system of symbols that allows artists to refer to complex ideas.
- 5. Process • Is there any METAPHOR, SYMBOL or ICONOGRAPHY present in Gnaw?
- 6. Writings about Art • Art critics, art historians, museum curators • Writing helps develop ideas about art. • Content is not fixed, rather is reevaluated over time. • Contradictory and opposing viewpoints over one artwork.
- 7. Modernist Criticisms • Formalist • Idealogical • Psychoanalytic • Structuralism
- 8. Postmodern Philosophical Positions • Post-structuralism • Deconstruction • Feminist
- 10. Guerilla Girls
- 11. Personal Interpretation • “based on your own ideas, personal tastes, experiences, and history… emotional response…”, p.102 Meaning often shifts…