Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Digital Currents: Chapter 3 Discussion Question

1." At the same time, television projected the world of the 1960s directly into the public's consciousness, transmitting dramatic, disturbing images of the Vietnam War Mixed with scaled up images of consumer objects which attempted to hook the viewer into believing that both kinds of images were of equal importance." (64)

Is the author saying that the attempts of subliminal advertising on TV in the 1960s, served as a vessel for "postmodern consciousness?"

2. "'In Conceptual Art", wrote Sol LeWitt, "the idea or concept is the most important aspect of the work... all planning and decisions are made beforehand and the execution is a perfunctory affair. The idea becomes the machine that makes the art.'" (73)





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