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Introduction to Visual Culture, Film & TV M50 - Coggle Diagram

- - - - What is Light?
        
        19th Century Insight Into Psychology of Color and Emotion. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe pioneered both scientific analysis of light (even though he was largely wrong) and color as emotion from a poetic perspective. Here is his color wheel.
        
        Wanna Trick someone with color! Follow Joseph Albers excerpts from Interaction of Color for guidelines on how to do so!
        
        "Color of Subjectivity" by Daston and Galison. Color is subjective, yet light wavelenght is not... how can that be?
        
        The Art of Color by Itten: Main idea again that color arises in the human eye and brain
        
        Blue Mythologies by Carol Mavor. Analysis of the movie Bleu noting that the mother eating the daughter's lollipop is her attempting to eat her sadness, but it doesn't work.
        
        "The Evolution of Art Towards the Immaterial" suggest that "Blueness has not dimension, it is beyond dimensions. Should this source be in this cateogry, then, if it is beyond light?
        
        "Blinding Blondes" by Hilaria Loyo explores the dichotomy of white and black in masquerade films. Can I get another source bout white being a symbol of purity? Yes you can sir.
      - What is lack of light?
        
        "All Black Everything" “When we read about black art by black artists, they seem always to refer, however indirectly, to black lives (and deaths), and to living (and dying), in relation to their black art.” (8)
        
        "Night Coming Tenderly, Black" One of 25 works by Dawoud Bey, here showing Lake Erie.
        
        "Photography, Darkness, and the Underground Railroad" Analyzes Dawoud Bey's 25 work exhibit.
        
        Lorna Simpson, "Darkening". Sometimes a dark blue can feel more like the absence of light than an outright color.
        
        "Lorna Simposon Searches for Meaning the Artic Ice" by Steph Rodney remarks that Simpson submerges us in an "icy desert devoid of human habitation"
        
        "The World as a Whole: Color" by Stanley Cavell analyzes manny movies, including the Wizard of Oz. But what if we view this source as simply comments on light versus lack of light. It completely changes its meaning.
        
        Like several of the other whiteness articles found in the formal analysis, first person section, "A Coat of Whitewash" by Le Corbussier remarks that whites is a sign of high culture and purity.
        
        Yves Kelin, Untiled White Monochrome (1958)
- - - - Hi There! Glad you're reading this far!
      - HG Wells, "The Country of the Blind". You can read it as a story, but it is really more of a thought experiment about what would life be like if everyone were blind except you...you wouldn't be as powerful as you think!
      - Mother of George Adenike wants a baby with her new husband, but is faced with a huge moral dilemma when he proves infertile
      - Wizard of Oz Borderline Formal/Informal Analysis, since color is so exploited as a tool, but it's technically all about the story of self-discovery.
      - "The Mind's Eye: What the Blind See" by Oliver Sacks rather informally explores two men living with being blind.
      - Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison follows the story of an invisible man that is so utterly lonely in the world, he must reach out.
      - Blonde Venus directed by Joseph von Sternberg, 1932 becomes more self-aware as our morals update. But in 1932, it was not nearly so self-reflexive. Pictured, Helen taking off her gorilla costume to reveal she's actually a nice white lady!