My studies is by now challenging me to integrate what I have been learning. After each exercise I had ideas coming and going, which, with the intent to stay concise in my writing, still hung around in my mind and asked for further thought. These writings grew organically out of...
My research for exercises in this part of the studies as well as summaries of background reading to understand difficult concepts Deleuze put forward and to integrate it into my understanding of Visual Arts and answering Part 4 of this course. ON READING DIFFERENCE AND REPETITION It is clear that...
My tutor comments positively on my effort to read as wide as possible, I appreciate her 'seeing' my efforts. It surely is very much part of my nature to seek to understand, but I still find it rather difficult to take the complex reading to a place of understanding -...
Demonstration of subject based knowledge and understanding At this point of the studies it became important for me to understand the ontology of philosophers I am reading - how they view reality. I am starting to read more on Deleuze and see him as having a realist ontology - there...
Read Plato's account of the Allegory of the Cave and say whether and why you think it is valid today. (1500 words) I will be looking at this discussion from a point of view that an Allegory is Symbolism and symbolic or metaphorical is always a dimension higher than where we...
Potts states that words and pictures/images are signs, activated by "cultural convention" (2003,20). and a work of art operates like a sign. The viewer 'who assign significance to a world of visual art is like the user of a language who envisages a word or a text as having meaning...
Ongoing effort to understand work for assignment 3 Contemplating the following: The image, the copy, and the thing depicted, the original. A common definition of the simulacrum is a copy of a copy whose relation to the model has become so attenuated that it can no longer properly be...
My tutor suggested the following reading material for this part of the course: Susan Sontag On Photography for a better understanding of the idea of the original versus the copy - downloaded on my Kindle as well as had it as an audio book- much to my friends at...