Handling History - Theo Humphries

Handling History, ‘-isms’, and Texts...

Theo Humphries Constellation

2012

Tuesday, 23 October 12

Handling History, ‘-isms’, and Texts...

Theo Humphries Constellation

2012


1. Handling History

2. Handling ‘-isms’

3. Handling texts(close reading)


Circa 1929 Wall of Death, Revere Beach, MA, USA

HandlingHistory...


A problem with history as a chronology of

‘facts’


Another problem with history...


Another problem with history...

...there are a lot of things in it.


Dawson & Lockyer, 2009Network Complexity DiagramTuesday, 23 October 12



MAMIYAM645, 2009‘Trees in Central Park’Tuesday, 23 October 12

Dylan Winter, n.d.Starlings flocking over Otmore


rspb.org.uk, 2010Flocking Starlings


ALL HISTORIES ARE CONSTRUCTED


ALL HISTORIES ARE CONSTRUCTED

Never say “The history of...”

Always say: “A history of...”


symbolism, romanticism, positivism, holism, fauvism, primitivism, Fordism, pessimism, liberal optimism, avant-guardism, neoclassicism, radicalism, utopianism, surrealism, cubism, Fluxus, abstract expressionism, abstract illusionism, minimalism, dadaism, theism, constructivism, impressionism, futurism, pragmatism, functionalism, materialism, spiritualism, existentialism, radicalism, primitivism, surrealism, elitism, narcissi formalism, consumerism, anti-consumerism, capitalism, postmodernism, metamodernism

Handling‘-isms’


symbolism, romanticism, positivism, holism, fauvism, primitivism, Fordism, pessimism, liberal optimism, avant-guardism, neoclassicism, radicalism, utopianism, surrealism, cubism, Fluxus, abstract expressionism, abstract illusionism, minimalism, dadaism, theism, constructivism, impressionism, futurism, pragmatism, functionalism, materialism, spiritualism, existentialism, radicalism, primitivism, surrealism, elitism, narcissi formalism, consumerism, anti-consumerism, capitalism, postmodernism, metamodernism


‘Campbells Soup Can’Andy Warhol, 1964

‘Hopeless’Roy Lichtenstein, 1963


‘Théière Sécante’Atelier Polyhedre, 2011

‘Compositie 10 in Zwart Wit - Pier and Ocean’

Piet Mondrian, 1915


Mond.

Minimalism Modernism

Abstractionism


Mond.Mond.

Minimalism Modernism

Abstractionism

Purism

Neo-Plasticism

Cubism

De StijlConstructivism

ReductionismIdealism



examples of the differences

Jean-Francoise Lyotard Ray Kurweil


Polish Military Experiment, 1920Acoustic booster (pre-RADAR)

Any questions...?


HandlingText


Close reading


Kusterle, 2002‘Abbandono sul fondo’Tuesday, 23 October 12




Prof. André StittThe Little Summer of St. Michael2011Oil on linen120 x 120 cm

My recent work reflects a concern with the visual codification of post-colonial landscapes and inhabited futures. Paint is utilised as a synthetic transmitter of experience that reflects the historical uncertainty of place and proposes contemporary genre painting as a transformative medium with redemptive potential. These paintings aspire to a condition of association and evocation rather than representation. As such, they occupy a liminal space that might be defined as ambiguous abstraction. This often reveals itself as a searching out of small, elusive moments and unconscious dilemmas that may implicate us in a larger communal, collective or cosmological narrative.


Pair up...


1. Circle any words, and/or small groups of words, that you don't fully understand. Talk about them, and look them up on your phones/laptops/tablets/etc.*

*please make notes on the paper.



2. Circle the keywords in a different colour or form of line.





3. Pick a sentence and try to define its meaning in your own words*. This is paraphrasing.





3. Pick a sentence and try to define its meaning in your own words*. This is paraphrasing.

4. Summarise the whole text into a single sentence. (remember to utilise your circled keywords). This is a summary.

Elect one of your pair to read out your summary sentence at the end of the session.




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Handling History - Theo Humphries