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Fall 2020-Oscar Wilde and the art of perception
Interdisciplinary Honors Seminar studying questions of aesthetics and perception as they play out in the works of Oscar Wilde and in the world we inhabit today.
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The Palace of Westminster is the home to the UK Parliament. This building is in the neo-Gothic style and was almost entirely destroyed in 1834 due to a raging fire. This gothic style of the Palace of Westminster is very different from our own neo-classical style that almost all American government buildings are designed to imitate. The neo-Gothic style is more traditional and conservative, which was appealing to the English in power at that time. The Palace's style complimented the style of Westminster Abbey, which is right across the road and was there first. The Palace was designed after the fire by a man names Chares Berry with assistance from Augustus Pugin, who was experienced with Gothic architecture. The Palace contains the democratic aspects of the UK's government, such as the House of Commons, but it is named a palace for a reason. There are Royal Apartments and a throne for the monarch inside. Therefore, the Palace does represent a representative form of government, but...
moreThe original image of "My Wife and My Mother in Law" was used as a postcard in Germany. The postcard began to circulate in 1888 before William Ely Hill's recreation was published in an American humor magazine where the image became popularized. The original piece of art was intriguing enough to warrant attention from a cartoonist who used his perspective on the image to create a subjectively humorous cartoon that made the distinction and ability to have a "gestalt switch" more possible.
Noosa is an Australian resort area. This is the area where the research study was conducted for the Biosphere Reserves which is an environmental program that has a goal of enviromental education. This study proved that environmental art was effective in teaching people about conservation and protection. Using aesthetics or art as a mean to change the perceptions of people and evoke emotion or empathy for the ecosystem or nature.
Marks M, Chandler L, & Baldwin C. (2017) Environmental art as an innovative medium for environmental education in Biosphere Reserves. Environmental Education Research https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13504622.2016.1214864?needAccess=true
The Cultural Revolution was a movement that lasted a decade from 1966-1976 led by Chairman Mao Zedong of China in order to regain authority of the communist party (CCP) as he felt as if the current leaders were going in the wrong direction, favoring more capitalistic and western ideas. In addition, Mao’s ideology, in regards to a social context, was to mitigate the class differences between the proletariat and the bourgeois (whom he believed to be a part of the capitalistic ideals that was holding China back) by mobilizing and significantly influencing/ empowering the proletarian class to have effective control and eliminate the bourgeois and bourgeoisie attitudes and behaviors. Mao’s ideology quickly caught on with Chinese youth as he tailored his ideas to speak to them; they soon became the driving force of spreading the ideals and enforcement and making sure people followed Maoism (as they believed it to be for the good of China as a whole), and purging/ beating people who didn’...
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