Summary Of The World As An Object Lesson By Tom Gunning

Barry Lopez’s essay, “A Literature of Place,” describes the wonders that mesmerize people and make them feel “at home” or at peace. Debating the issue of the appreciation of earth’s fascinations, Lopez argues against capitalism and suggests natives appreciate nature much more

The exhibition is organized systematically and chronologically, as well as sequentially. Each segment has a title, supplemented by a detailed description which gives context to the content. This makes for easy transitioning through the various sections of the show. To the curator’s credit, the audience will find these descriptions extremely useful. Without them as a guide it would be difficult to keep track of the sequence in which the objects are organized. The personal accounts of the artist’s experience of the war are also useful. They add a context to the circumstances surrounding the artist during that time. Such a device strengthens the viewer’s understanding of the object being displayed.

The Shallows, an eye opening book written by Nicholas Carr, discusses the detrimental impacts of technology on the process of learning. Specifically, in Chapter Eight, Carr analyzes the evolution of technology that has led to the invention of an efficient, revolutionary organization of knowledge: the search engine. For example, Google provides an online outlet to a seemingly infinite amount of information for internet users worldwide. Google is widely known as a necessity for everyday life: an incredible tool for searching the vast expansions of the world-wide web. Carr, frightened by the technological change that Google brings, describes how we are perpetually stuck between two modes of thinking. The online organization of knowledge that Google provides carries both positive and negative arguments; A database of that capacity allows individuals access to knowledge that would otherwise be inaccessible but Google also has a certain control over knowledge which is alarming.

Theastre Gates' minimalist exhibition, How To Build A House Museum, is a historic event for the Art Gallery of Ontario. Commonly regarded as a somewhat conventional gallery, Gates' immersive work is a monumental step towards engaging the AGO with contemporary artists lives and works. As we walk into the fifth floor, the audience feels as if we have crossed through time to another space, similar to the transportive journey that listening to music or being in a club takes you on. Gates uses his art to evoke that same form of escapism. However, once your mind feels relaxed and is open to take in the exhibit, Gates throws a multitude of historical graphs, personal items and architecture layered in meaning onto you, as a reminder that this whole

In this paper I will be describe how I interpret never before seen art pictures. I will discuss how they make me feel, what I think of them, and what region of the brain makes me feel this way, and lastly how this process helped me. First I will pick an artist I have not viewed before, I’ll look at the picture for two minutes observing everything I can. Then I will discuss how I perceive the painting.

We are not victims of our biology or circumstances, we are responsible for our decisions and making choices is the most powerful thing in the universe, only beneath God of course. It was with this premise that great nations were built. The true Christian faith is the largest and most powerful force of civilization in history. It arose with just a few disciples in a dusty region far away from the centers of global decisions, and in a few centuries became the dominant culture of the world. We created a beautiful, scientific, technological, and advanced civilization. In spite of its many defects, what we call Judeo-Christian western civilization is the most beautiful invention of mankind up to today. Vishal Mangawadi in his wonderful work “The Book that Made Your World”, describes how, through the influence of the Bible, we had the anti-slavery movement, caring for the weak, widows, orphans, disabled, and miserable, democracy, justice, freedom of expression and human dignity.

During the Exhibition, in the first theme, the feelings that I felt are sadness, anxiety and desperation. The feeling of sadness came due to the minor scale, through the sound of the bass, cellos, horns and brass playing the four notes motive. The violin´s timbre conveys to me a sense of anxiety and desperation. Then, the pause and crescendos led me to increase those feelings.

The resurrection of former prisons across the world has equally captured the awareness of tourists and scholars alike. While prison museums, as a result of their bleak and in some cases disturbing subject matter, invert the “Disney” experience, they proceed to exploit a phenomenon known as dark tourism,” . . . in which people gravitate to sites associated with war, genocide, and other tragic events for purposes of remembrance education, or even entertainment,” (Welch, 1). Generated in order to convey the aforementioned purpose, the “museum effect” subjects visitors of the prison museums to a multilayered encounter with objects, images and space. Utilizing models such as The Clink, Alcatraz, Eastern State Penitentiary, and Seodaemun prison, this papers purpose is to illustrate the success of the museum effect in achieving its desired ends of remembrance through memorialization, education and culturalization through use of images and space, and entertainment through the use of objects.

Both the whole arrangement of the exhibition and artworks are effective for showing the main idea of the exhibition. The different wall colorings in different rooms in this exhibition can give viewers fruitful visual experiences. The warm color atmosphere around the exhibition makes us forget about the fear and sorrow of death. Different rooms have different mediums of artworks. This gives the exhibition an outstanding rhythm that is different from normal exhibitions, which would not make this exhibition stiff. The artworks in this exhibition do not only reflect the theme but also make a good interaction with the viewers¬—especially the sculpture work We are Earth and Earth with Fire makes Stone: Ayotzinapa lives, the struggle continues. The exhibition taught me a new exhibition arrangement and also taught me what is Mexican “day of the

Understood in its totality, the spectacle is both the outcome and the goal of the dominant mode of production. It is not something added to the real world ­ ­ not a decorative element, so to speak. On the contrary, it is the very heart of society's real unreality. In all its specific manifestations ­­ news or propaganda, advertising or the actual consumption of entertainment ­­ the spectacle epitomizes the prevailing model of

The museum had an ample amount of artwork on display, in addition to the permanent collection, the museum offered three special art exhibits. I must admit I had not visited a museum for quite some time and I appreciated the entire display of artwork. The first area I entered composed of one single display, Red Grooms’ “Model for the Fox Trot Carousel.” Next, I observed Hassan Hajjaj: “My Rock Stars” which contained several artwork of people with instruments. Finally, I entered the exhibit that contained Veda Reed’s “Day into the Night.” Immediately, I fell in love with this display of artwork, particularly Day into Night, Lunar Halo, and Daybreak.

“The Origins of the Modern World,” by Robert B. Marks is an informative narrative over views of European influence and how it shaped the modern world, questioning the outcome and if it really was the birthplace.

Through an analysis of the narratives of round the world travelers, the authors explore how travelers weave together “time, space, place and pace” in a global journey around the world. Using examples from the article explain how the “itinerary” plays a role in helping the travelers negotiate the tension between time, space, and pace while at the same time reflecting certain cultural and social assumptions about place.

In his article Sputnik Goes to Brussels: The Exhibition of a Soviet Technological Wonder Lewis Siegelbaum discusses how Soviet Union used replicas of sputnik satellites in the Brussels 1958 world fair. And regarding to that, especially how soviets used their success in space to represent itself to both international audience and also its own people. Siegelbaum uses a modified version of Stuart Hill’s famous reception theory and Sharon Macdonald's framework to analyze museum displays, as a way to investigate the Soviet authorities' production of the exhibition and how different publics responded to it. The Expo ’58 in Brussels was the first large scale international exhibition after the second world war, therefore it had a big symbolic meaning and aspect.

A new outlook on pre-Civil War slavery is portrayed in Edward Jones' novel "The Known World". Unlike many well-known novels that cover slavery, Jones chose to focus on the thoughts and emotions of both the slaves and slave-owners and how they interact with each other. Set in a wealthy Virginia county, the practice of owning slaves is common to the white man and the black man as well. The main focus of the story is Henry Townsend, a black former slave that was bought out of slavery by his father, who was also a former slave. As time passes Henry never loses the admiration he has for his former master and looks to him as an idol. Much to his parent's disappointment Henry not only enjoys his life as a free black man after being bought by his