4. Historians speculate: this is not “art” but
may be a magical technique used as part of
rituals preparing for the hunt.
5. As spectacle:
As ritual: You are consigned to
watch someone else
You are an active doing something; your
participant role is limited to viewing.
Everyday rules don’t
apply in this deviation
from ordinary
space/time
Sacred beverages are
consumed
7. As ritual:
You are an active
participant As spectacle:
Everyday rules don’t You are
apply in sacred consigned to
space/time watch someone
Sacred beverages are else doing
consumed something
Your role that of
viewer, even,
element of
spectacle.
22. Simone Martini (and LippoMemmi), The
Fra Angelico, TheAnnunciation, fresco
Annunciation, tempera on panel with in cell 3, Convent of San Marco,
gold leaf, c. 1333, 10’1” x 8’8” Florence , c. 1440
23. Simone Martini (and LippoMemmi), The
Annunciation, tempera on panel with
gold leaf, c. 1333, 10’1” x 8’8”
51. Nocturne in Black and
Gold: The Falling
Rocket, 1875
James Abbott MacNeill
Whistler (American, living in
London) painted this picture in
1875.
Art critic John Ruskin
complained,
“I have seen, and heard,
much of cockney
impudence before now;
but never expected a
coxcomb to ask two
hundred guineas for
flinging a pot of paint in
the public’s face.”
Ruskin printed this insult in his
pamphlet series, ForsClavigera,
in 1877.
