Three Approaches to Teaching Visual Culture

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2 Three Approaches to Teaching Visual Culture Based on the Art Education faculty at Penn State. They translate visual culture according to their own research. How we look at Culture with cultural narratives, intertextuality and values clarification.

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4 Art, Visual Culture, Material Culture, Media Studies, Visual Studies----

5 Vision is dominated by male privilege. Art- painting drawing, posters wall hangings, visual enjoyment. Is this what we should teach? If it is in a museum, it must be art. Impressionist painting, Light! science or art or both? Is all this truth to the definition of Art?

6 Visual Culture Is a way of calling attention to visual qualities as important components cultural practices and includes non exhibited dimensions of meaning such as context and power. Conceptual divisions between ethical, intellectual, and aesthetic aspects of life...were distinctly modern inventions.

7 Mark Poster- Media studies is the better term to recognize the material form in which the cultural object is received. He believes to rid uniqueness about contemporary visuality. Sight sound and text are merged. Doug Blandy and Paul Bolin- Material culture emphasizes objects everyday use or the visual over other sensory perceptions. Duttmann- Visual culture as the culture hegemony of the image that must posit a link between culture and vision if it is to prove somehow meaningful.

8 Action thought and vision are interrelated in contemporary theory, culture practices that shape our lives. How do culture fit into visual culture?

9 Visual Culture includes, paintings, prints, photo, film, tv, video, advertisement, news image, science, fine and popular art form, toys,science fiction, childrens art ect. Presents ideas and stories that shape our lives. Images are chosen not for the inherent aesthetic value, but for their power. That gives art power.

10 So which term best describes our field? Art, Visual Culture, Material Culture, Media Studies, Visual Studies

11 Does the use of specific rhetoric or jordan or the discourse surrounding it have the potential to make us more mindful of our practice, or are we simply adding more FAT to our already proverbial full plats?

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13 Visual Culture Jam: Art, Pedagogy, and Creative Resistance - David Darts

14 Arts Used politically - Tiananmen Square: - The Goddess of Democracy : 30-foot monument - Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia - Used art to help achieve their ideological goals.

15 Political Edutainment - Teachers who are committed to awakening students to be engaged and thoughtful and informed citizens are obliged to prepare their courses and pedagogic practices attend to the complex connection between culture and politics. - If art education is to prepare students to responsibly live within the contemporary sociocultural sphere, educators must be willing to help them resist the ideology of the ordinary, question the unperceived and become awakened to the invisibility of the everyday. - Nicholas Mirzoeff - The human experiences is now more visual and visualized than ever before, and visual culture is not a just part of our everyday lives, it is our everyday lives. - Visual educators can begin to awaken their students to the complex forces behind the imagery and aesthetics of the familiar.

16 Critical Resistance - Tavin (2003) - The pedagogy is rooted in a democratic ethos that attends to the practices of teaching and learning and focuses on lived experiences with the intention to disrupt, contest, and transform - Yokley (1999) - Asserts that critical art educators combine the power of artistic means with political action as they question ideological formations, and indeed all facets of life through projects of possibility.

17 Resistance Theory - Based on the egalitarian notion that youth resistance in schools might offer a basis for social transformation by undermining the production of dominant social structure and power relations. - an effective pedagogical tool for exposing oppression and encouraging personal and social transformation - Introducing artists who work on sociocultural, political, aesthetic, historical, and pedagogical complexity challenges students disenfranchised conception of social role and political functions of art with their students.

18 How can art educators use resistance theory effectively?