Archive for September 3rd, 2012
Art and the ruling classes
After reading chapter five of John Berger’s Ways of Seeing, I thought we should look at Holbein’s “The Ambassadors” (1533) more closely: How does this oil painting shape and inform the interests of the ruling classes? Here’s a 2001 photograph, “Olympia’s Boyz” by Renee Cox. It revises Edouard Manet’s famous oil painting, “Olympia” (1965). […]
Posted: September 3rd, 2012 under Art and Politics.
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