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Imagining Realities - Coggle Diagram
Imagining Realities
Realism
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Nanook of the North
Flaherty conciously set out to evoke a 'primitive' way of Inuit life, which draws on realism as a representation. (Keith Beattie)
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Materialists
Material things exist independently from our knowledge of them (eg, if a tree falls in a forest). We become aware of the external world through perception. Aristotle.
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Realism is considered a 19th century movement that came about through scientifc advances leading to a desire to percieve and understand the world scientifically. They wantes to record the 'real world'.
"To translate the customs, the ideas, the apperance of my epoch, according to my estimation." (Custave Coubert 1855)
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Modernity
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Nationality, scientific discoveries, the expansion of capitalism and new ways of looking at the world.
Modernism
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Politically motivated, an attack on traditional art and its values.
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Constructing Realism
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Renoir
Fictional events but the maniuplation of the image via deep cocus and long takes makes it seem real.
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Sanders Pierce
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Symbolic - the relationship between the signifier and its meaning is arbitrary. It is just a social covention. Words are symbolic signs.
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Iconic signs - the signifier looks and resembles the signified. Images are iconic signs of the thing they represent.