CCS Notes (3/8)

Canon

- “A canon, is a basic for judgement, a standard, a criterion, an authoritative list

- The word was originally used to designate the books of the Bible officially recognized by the church

- The concept of canon is under debate as it is alleged to produce a culturally narrow and elitist universtity curriculum

- “Is there a a canon of graphic design history” By Martha Scotford, graphic design historian, 1991

- Concept under debate

- sets a method to challenge the canon

- How to challenge the canon

- Creating

- Asking questions, presenting finding

- Expanding the canon

- You can’t ignore the canon

- Become familiar with the tone, but we ready to create your personal canon

Dr. Nicola Ashmore

- Research and practice go together

- Fred Wilson’s exhibition Mining the Museum at the Maryland Historial Social, Bartimore, USA

- Frsirt of its kind

- Used item of the museum and create an exhibition with them

- Took control of the narrative

- Interventionist

- He visited the museum and had a strong emotion

- He felt incredible uncomfortable

- It is worth interrogating

- When you fell tension, draw a strong reaction

- Talked to the staff and local residences

- To see how people felt in the museum

- Describres his process as practice of looking

- What was in display vs. what was stored away

- The exhibition was on the third floor, so the visitors had to walk through the museum first

- Modes of Transport 1770-1910

- Puts opposite thing together to create a narrative

- Baby trolley and a KKK fabric

- Very significant date

- Brings back African American study that was absent from the museum

- Pablo Picasso, Guernica (1937)

- Intended the art to function as a call for action

- Most political art from Picasso

- Dora Maar (Photographer)

- Documented the piece

- Wanted to make postcards of the piece

- Keiskamma Art Project, Keiskamma Guernica (2010)

- Recreated Guernica five times

- Translated Picasso’s imagery to contest and highlight the suffering of their reason