Week Three: Ways of Seeing
Further development of visual rhetoric skills. Other neat stuff. Trust me.
- Monday
- Martin Luther King Day Holiday
- Homework:
- Forum Topic 4: You have two options:
- Use what we have been discussing in class to analyze some image relevant to the MLK holiday.
- I encourage you to explore more photo's from her collection Immediate Family on Art Forum (includes a link to an interesting article by Mann) or on Artnet. Or, you could look up her entry on Wikipedia. Use what you find for an extended consideration of Mann's work.
- Forum Topic 4: You have two options:
- Wednesday
- Visual CoOperation: New Word Order--Introduction to Project 1, Part C, "ReVisions"
- Homework:
- Complete rhetorical analysis of a project on the collective
- Forum Topic 5: Write up your intital rhetorical analysis into a post. Concentrate on which project you chose, why you chose it, and what's your initial interpretation. Be sure to include a link to the post.
- Thursday
- Discussion: Sally Mann
- Homework:
- "Sketch" possibilities for "ReVision"
- Forum Topic 6 : after our class discussion, has your conceptions of Sally Mann changed? How?
- Read: Coursepack--Kenneth Burke, "Definition of Man" from Language as Symbolic Action
- Forum Topic 7: Burke questions
- Conferences
- Format: teams of two, 10 minutes each
- Goal: clarify Project 1, Part C & discuss heursitic
- Preparation: establish an account on the Visual CoOperative