Chapter 14 Entertainment and Visual Culture

Architecture must

meet the aesthetics, expectations, and values of the audience for the activities that happen inside

Deconstructivist

many unique viewpoints do not combine into a unified whole; disconnection between inside form and outside structure

Neo-modernism

contemporary art movements/criticisms that respond to/critique modernism

ampitheaters

oldest arcitecture, held Greek comedies and plays, dedicated to god Dionysos,

Theater at Epidauros

350 BCE, 387 feet in diameter

Classical Greek ideal shape (the circle), 12,000 capacity, outside reflects Western Cultures

skene

a building that provided a backdrop for the plays and contained dressing room/ props

The Opera House

Sydney, Australia

Danish architect Joern Utzon

functional sculpture/organic architecture (rooted in Frank Lloyd Wright); vaults suggest sailboats

influenced by Mesoamerica

Solomon R. Guggenheim

Frank Lloyd Wright

organic architecture, focus on a small group of artworks

not ideal b/c floor is sloped + viewers can’t choose their own path

Walt Disney Concert Hall

Los Angeles, irregular colliding, Frank Gehry, Deconstructivist (unique viewpoint do not coalesce into a unified whole), Neo-Modernist (emphasis on abstract form)

Baths of Caracalla

over fifty acres, decorated with stucco elevated ceilings, marble facing, mosiac floors, heated air ciculated through hollow floors

Central Park

In the middle of Manhattan, retreat from busy NYC,, example of landscape architecture

Colosseum, or Flavian Ampitheater

huge structure covering six acres

faced with rich veneers of marble, tile, plaster, and bronze

4 horizontal bands, 3 with arches flanked

Greek classical columns, Greco-Roman architecture

50,000 capacity, admission was free to all, but seating separated by social class

dedicated to blood sports; continued until 523 CE

The Great Ball Court

Mayan, symbolized for the epic journey through the Underworld taked by the heroic twins the sun and the moon, decorative reliefs cover the wallls

Acrobat

Mexico, simplified manner, naturalistic face, head is too large, bent arms and legs frame the face

Judith Leyester

Holland, a prolific artist whose work was well known at the time a rare accomplishment for a women in a predominantly male art world

Boy Playing a Flute

Judith Leyester, 1630, captures the pride of a musician as he looks to the audience for approval, brought out that the middle class (european protestant middle class ) can play music to

Jane Avril

1880s, Henri de Lautrec, focused on paris night life, bright, flat colors, coiling snake emphasizes curves and suggest she is a temptress (live Eve), influenced later graphic designers

Bunarku

Doll drama, puppets in Japan, performed by traveling troupes, usually has music by a three-stringed instrument called a samisen with the play

The Lion King

Julie Taymor directed, Indonesian masked dance background, striking visuals add to the dramatic performance

Summerspace

Rauschenberg and Cunningham, and composer Feldan, 1st performed at American Dance Festival, abstract painting where there is no figure that is more important than the background

Performance art

a visual art form that incorporates live action and mixed media and is presented before an audience

Happenings

Allan Kaprow, 1st performance art, 1960's, believed art should be unstable, participants and audience were one entity,

Household

One of the works of the Happening, New York, males built a tower of garbage, and women built a nest of twigs and string, women left the nest to lick the jam off the car while the males destroyed the nest, then the males wiped the car with white bread and the women destroyed the males tower, finally the males set the car onn fire

Lyre

made of wood, lapis lazuli, and gold, found in mesopotamian tomb of queen puabi, 2685 BCE, instrument similar to a harp, bearded bulls were the symbol of royalty,

Sioux Open Circle Dance

springtime rebirth of nature, unity of things in the universe, found in the United States Indian Tribes,

awa

males in the Mali culture who in their dance tell the story of how death entered their world, Kanga mask were worn three days after a death in the community,

visual culture

totality of images and visual objects produced in industrial and postindustrial nations, field of academic study

gaze

vision is associated with this, power relationships are embedded in "who is looking at whom"

spectacle

any kind of public show on a grand scale

Film and Televison

based on a sequence, require technology, narrative is a key element, fertile areas of investigation for visual culture scholars because of imbedded social messages

The Golden Age of Hollywood

1930's and 40's, large studios producing romantics, comedies, thrillers, and dramas (like Gone with the Wind)

Television

shrank the world, broadly popular in the 1950's, I Love Lucy was a highly popular sitcom b/c it visually showed the problems by facial expressions

Cremaster

shows how television and movies borrow from each other, promotes free-flowing thoughts, deals with gender identity,

Traditional Animation

drawn on transparent sheets so that the foreground action figures could be separated and moved across an unchanging background

Claymation

early form of animation, uses clay structures that photographed while being moved in tiny incremants

Computer Animation

new form that allows characters to be plotted with series of vectors and points and made to move with math computations

Spirited Away

animation movie masterpiece, 2002, Hayao Miyazaki's, draws from historical structures

Hakone Open-Air Museum JPN 1969

Las Vegas 2004

Bull Jumping

Crete

1550—1540 BCE

wall painting

Ball Players

Mayan (MX)

1000—1200

vase painting

Harp Player

Cycladic (Greek)

2500—1100 BCE

marble

Musicians and Dancers (From the tomb of Nebamun)

Thebes, Egypt

1400 BCE

fresco

Eastern Iatmul Hand Drum

East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea

1900

wood, fiber, shell, animal hide, red/white pigment

Gasoline Alley Frank King

Sunday newspaper page

1931

Golden age of Mexican cinema; Maria Candelaria (Xochimilco)

1943

Board Game Pieces

Egypt

3100—2890 BCE

ivory

5-Year-Old Boy Playing with Nintendo DS

2013

Girl Reaching Out to a Robot

2010

Monkey Magic Sex Money and Drugs

• elephant dung

Vessel in the Form of a Monkey

Veracruz, MX (Late Classic period)

800—900

clay

• so naturalistic that its species can be identified