Zine #1, Observation, Winners (4 way tie)

Mona Hatoum & Justine Cooper (Chapter 7)

Justine Cooper, Living in Sim.  Link here for article and more pics.

The Mexican Cage, Mona Hatoum, 2002. The friendly colors of the cage work in contrast with the unfriendly nature of the cage.

Hatoum's The Mexican Cage (2002) represents a colorful birdcage. The work suggests a metaphoric connection between a caged canary and the life of a Mexican factory worker. How does The Mexican Cage suggest tension? Do you think that the "friendly colors" of the work contrast with the object that is an "unfriendly" cage?  Link here to source.

The Mexican Cage, Mona Hatoum, 2002. The friendly colors of the cage work in contrast with the unfriendly nature of the cage.

Interior Landscape | 2008 | steel bed, pillow, human hair, table, cardboard tray, cut-up map, wire hanger | dimensions variable.  Link here.
More here.





In Interior Landscape (2008), an installation created specifically f

Chapter 7, Biology and Crime: Degeneracy and the Visual Trace

Some interesting tidbits and visuals  here.

Henry Faulds, 1843 - 1930, Scottish scientist who is noted for the development of fingerprinting.    From Chapter 7:

"There are similar markings in the grain of woods, in the veining of leaves, and in the spots and stripes of flowers.  The barks of some trees often display the very patterns that are so useful and interesting in finger prints...Photography shows furrows exactly like those of finger prints in the overflowing lava of a volcano." -Henry Faulds

Training for criminal identification.  More here.

More here.

Alphonse Bertillon

Movies

I created a list of films that may be of interest to you.  The films have content that is directly related to our course curriculum.  If you have any film suggestions, please send me an e-mail and I will post here on the blog.

Watch film trailer here.

Watch trailer here.  Also, a book.  Amazon link here.

Watch trailer here.

Trailer here.

Film trailer here.

Trailer here.

Watch trailer here.

Watch trailer here.

Chapter 6, The Transparent Body: Biocultures of Evolution, Eugenics and Scientific Racism

Petrus Camper, b. 1722 - d. 1789, Dutch, Anatomist and Physiologist.

Mass produced souvenir card of Clara the Rhinoceros, 1747.  Speculated to have been drawn by Camper.

Camper, 1778.  Article link here.

Leochares, Apollo of the Belvedere, white marble, 350 - 325 BC.
7 feet high, Depicts Greek god Apollo.  Rediscovered in Italy during the Renaissance.

Johann Winckelmann, b. 1717 - d. 1768, German art historian and archaeologist.

French Museum of Natural History opens in 1794.  Link here for more.

More about the book here.

Link here for more.

Sylvester Stallone, movie actor
Link here for video.

Robert DeNiro in Raging Bull.
Link here if interested in the book.

Movie Poster, 1917

Link here to video.

Test #2, Monday, Nov. 8

People and Terms for Test #2. Test #2 scheduled for Monday, Nov. 8.  I will pull from the list below to compose section I of the test.  Some terms may not be included in the test.  However, the list is a good overview and can help you answer all questions on the test.

Sunday, Nov. 7, 9:50 a.m. - I eliminated Century Magazine.  List is final.

Jacques-Louis David
allegory
The Louvre
credulous
magic lantern
placard
Charles Philipon
Honore' Daumier
caricature
poster
crowd
semiotics
Transparent Man
Guernica
anthropometry
physiognomy
Michel Foucault
culture
French Museum of Natural History
Augustine
The Bertillon Method
Apollo Belvedere
Bastille
lithography and photography (lithography is a form of printing)

In Class Discussion for Chapters 1, 2 and 3.

Watch the silent film here.
Source, Article, here.
Film: AB Initio, a blog about cinema history.  Click here for feature on above image and video.

Persepolis, located in modern Iran.  Earliest remains date from around 515 BC.  Once a year Darius The Great invited ambassadors from every nation to join him in Persepolis. The ambassadors had to walk up this staircase decorated with spectacular reliefs to get to the great hall. Click here for the video.

Francisco Goya, The Third of May 1808, oil on canvas, 1814

Video Link

Pablo Picasso, Guernica, oil on canvas, 1937

Video Link #1
Follow With Video Link #2

Picasso, Massacre in Korea, 1951, oil on plywood.

I Want Your Money, Movie Poster

Movie Trailer

Chapter 3, Socialist Movements and the Development of the Political Poster

John Bull, World War I recruiting poster,  c. 1915

Columbia, from a World War I patriotic poster, feminine personification of the United States of America,

Uncle Sam recruiting poster, shown publicly for the first time July 6, 1916, cover of Leslie Weekly.

United States Navy Recruiting Posters, World War I.  Source link here.

Source is the German Propaganda Archive.  Link here.

Chapter 2, Nineteenth-Century revolutions and Strategies of Visual Persuasion

German women's magazines.  Link here for article and more pics.

Punch Magazine, British weekly magazine, humor and satire, published 1841 - 1992 and from 1996 - 2002.

American illustrated literary and news magazine, founded 1852,  Ceased publication in the 20th century.

Magazine Cover, August, 1903.
First published in United States 1881.  Ceased publication 1930.
Stephen Crane.