Above is the image of a survey conducted at a Korean high school in Incheon in 2011. The survey was conducted at a girls' high school.
I translated the questions in English in red. The one below is the original of the survey.
- Juwon
Sunday, August 31, 2014
Survey as an artifact/evidence
Above is the image of a survey conducted at a Korean high school in Incheon in 2011. The survey was conducted at a girls' high school.
I translated the questions in English in red. The one below is the original of the survey.
- Juwon
Maté
posted by Israel Fuentes
Mate has a strong cultural significance in the southern hemisphere of America. These gourds are vessels that steep dry leaves, creating a high-energy drink. These gourds are hand carved, while others are mass-produced. This item can be categorized as evidence of mate-user, and a possible heirloom that is given to the next generation of family, if crafted well.
Carl Van Vechten's photographs chronicling black and queer culture
Carl Van Vechten's photographs can be viewed as evidence and artifacts of black and queer culture but also as evidence, artifacts and heirlooms of the artist's life.
posted by Tony Whitfield
http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/collections/highlights/living-portraits-carl-van-vechtens-color-photographs-african-americans-1939
posted by Tony Whitfield
http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/collections/highlights/living-portraits-carl-van-vechtens-color-photographs-african-americans-1939
Living Portraits: Carl Van Vechten's Color Photographs of African Americans, 1939-1964
Photographs of artists, entertainers, activists, educators, and public intellectuals taken by Carl Van Vechten.
Carl Van Vechten (1880-1964), photographer, promotor of literary talent, and critic of dance, theater, and opera, had an artistic vision rooted in the centrality of the talented person. He cherished accomplishment, whether in music, dance, theater, fine art, literature, sport, or advocacy. He began to make photographic portraits in 1932; in 1939 he discovered newly available color film. For a quarter century, he invited friends and acquaintances, well-known artists, fledgling entertainers, and public intellectuals to sit for him, often against backdrops reminiscent of the vivid colors and patterns of a Matisse painting. Among his subjects are a very young Diahann Carroll, Billie Holiday in tears, Paul Robeson as Othello, Althea Gibson swinging a tennis racquet, and a procession of opera stars, composers, authors, musicians, activists, educators, and journalists who made notable contributions to the cultural and intellectual life of the country. Also included are brilliant color images of notable and everyday places: Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee; the wedding of friends; pushcarts and street scenes of Harlem; children at play in a housing project's yard.
The Collection
Color slides of Blacks.
1,884 color Kodachrome slides, 2 x 2 inches each.
1,884 color Kodachrome slides, 2 x 2 inches each.
African Americana
American Literature
Call Numbers
JWJ Van Vechten
Citations
Carl Van Vechten Papers, Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University
What evidence does a portrait hold?
What is visible in a portrait?
posted by Tony Whitfield
from http://strangeflowers.wordpress.com/2012/03/22/berenice-abbott-portraits/
posted by Tony Whitfield
from http://strangeflowers.wordpress.com/2012/03/22/berenice-abbott-portraits/
American photographer Berenice Abbott is currently the subject of a major show at the Jeu de Paume in Paris. Abbott was connected to much of that city’s avant-garde and expatriate communities in the 1920s and took compelling portraits of her illustrious crowd. And while the exhibition draws on her entire oeuvre, including her acclaimed series on New York City, it’s hard to go past these brilliant character studies.
Jean Cocteau
Princess Marthe Bibesco
James Joyce
Jane Heap
Max Ernst
Edna St Vincent Millay
Claude McKay
Djuna Barnes
Robert McAlmon
Sylvia Beach
Foujita
Solita Solano
Lucia Joyce
Saturday, August 30, 2014
The imprint of queerness on America
Build on the work of fellow Parsons students in two previous courses taught by Tony Whitfield. This blog has over 900 entries compiled over the last two years on the ways in which LGBTQI people have impacted American culture. Use it as a resource and point of departure
How should we understand what are we seeing?
What are we really seeing?
posted by Tony Whitfield
What Are "Gay Semiotics"?
http://www.gaysemiotics.net/semiotics/4565701905
posted by Tony Whitfield
What Are "Gay Semiotics"?
http://www.gaysemiotics.net/semiotics/4565701905
Semiotics "involves the study not only of what we refer to as 'signs' in everyday speech, but of anything which 'stands for' something else. In a semiotic sense, signs take the form of words, images, sounds, gestures and objects. Contemporary semioticians study signs not in isolation but as part of semiotic 'sign-systems' (such as a medium or genre). They study how meanings are made and how reality is represented." (Chandler, 2007, p.2)
'Gay semiotics' refers to the processes and signs which make homosexuality manifest and which render it potentially visible to others. Or, in everyday language: the ways we 'read' someone as potentially gay or lesbian. However, gay semiotics is also concerned with the ways in which 'the homosexual' has been used as a 'sign' throughout history: a symbolic figure which might tell us something about cultural values, fears and expectations.
This website will explore the signs and symbols which gay men and lesbians have used in order to signal their homosexuality to others, as well as the historical search for bodily marks and signs which would identify a distinctively gay or lesbian body. It will cover subcultural in-group codes such as those outlined by Fischer (1977) and Baker (2002), cultural stereotypes of the gay man or lesbian, and the medical and scientific concern with distinctive identifying features by which gay 'bodies' could be recognised.
For more information on semiotics, see Daniel Chandler's book (below) and website: http://users.aber.ac.uk/dgc/Documents/S4B/
REFERENCES
Baker, P. (2002). Polari: The Lost Language of Gay Men. London: Routledge.
Chandler, D. (2007). Semiotics: The Basics (2nd ed.). London: Routledge.
Fischer, H. (1977). Gay Semiotics ♂: A Photographic Study of Visual Coding among Homosexual Men. San Francisco: NFS Press.
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Artifacts and Heirlooms of a nation's history
- How does a nation deal with the complex history of an individual who transformed its understanding of itself?
- http://www.nps.gov/malu/index.htm
posted by Tony Whitfield
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Martin Luther King Jr
National Historic SiteGeorgia
A Great Leader is Born
A young boy grows up in a time of segregation…A dreamer is moved by destiny into leadership of the modern civil rights movement…This was Martin Luther King, Jr. Come hear his story, visit the home of his birth, and where he played as a child. Walk in his footsteps, and hear his voice in the church where he moved hearts and minds. Marvel at how he was an instrument for social change.
Did You Know?
Ebenezer Baptist Church's most famous member, Martin Luther King, Jr., was baptized as a child in the church. After giving a trial sermon to the congregation at Ebenezer at the age of 19 Martin was ordained as a minister. In 1960 Dr. King, Jr. became a co-pastor of Ebenezer with his father.
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