D'un enfant monstrueux, Michelle de Montaigne

V1: Ecological problems, How is Protest art influential in the messages they convey, how does it help?

Chosen tutor:

-The 21st century art of protest

-Google form

A HISTORY OF MODERN ART By H.H ARNASON (third edition revised and updated)

>Realise and Impressionism: Chapter 2

But just as the realist spirit inspired a number of progressive painters to seek truth in a more direct and simplifying approach to both subject and medium, many enlightened photographers sought to purge their work of the artificial, academic devices seen here and concentrate on what photography then did best - report the world and it’s life as candidly as possible. (What HH Arnason here tells us, is that photography was an inspiration to protest art as it could represent the truth and moments or people as they were, unlike contemporary art which would embellish or distort “truth”. Realise and impressionism had as a goal to show their pictures with every thing within it, as Oscar.J’s, The Two Ways of Life, representation shows the reality of the social difference with a rich half and a miserable one.).

As a medium of communication (protest is communicated=communication) as well as expression, photography was both the product and the agent of the powerful social changes that had been taken place in the western civilisation since the revolutions of the late 18th Century. Journalism expanded immensely as in some measure newspapers and periodical imagery was liberated from the tight and often punitive censorship of the ancient regime. A new kind of journalism and critical writing was evident, as people would express their ideas through them they would indirectly or directly protest against judgments they thought unright. Many of the best critical writers in England and France would write for reviews.

Websites:

https://www.magnumphotos.com/arts-culture/society-arts-culture/protest/

Photographies:

Bruce Davidson Arrest of a demonstrator. "Damn the Defiant!" Birmingham, Alabama, USA. 1963.

Ian Berry A protest demonstration by students from Witwatersand University. Witwatersand. South Africa. 1961.

Stuart Franklin 'The Tank Man' stopping the column of T59 tanks. Tien An Men Square, Beijing, China. 4th June 1989

>American Art Between the Wars: Chapter 18

>Pop Art, Assemblage, and Europe’s new realism: Chapter 21

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