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The Painting of Modern Life

December 22, 2015
by Rebecca Cleal
Painting / Photography / Research Methodologies

I came across the exhibition catalog for The painting of modern life: 1960s to now whilst researching  in the library today. The exhibition was held at the Hayward Gallery, London 2007 and later installed at the Castello di Rivoli, Museeum of Contemporary Art, Turin, Italy in 2008. Featuring 22 artist painters whose work deals with representation in modern life the exhibition presents an interesting framework from which to explore my research aims and objectives. (2007) The 22 artists […]

Vilém Flusser ~ Towards a Philosophy of Photography

October 16, 2015
by Rebecca Cleal
Philosophy / Photography / Quotes

  Over the past couple of days I have read Vilem Flusser’s book  Towards A  Philosophy Of Photography. Here are some of quotes I found to be of particular interest to me: “The Magical nature of images must be taken into account when decoding them. Thus it is wrong to look for ‘Frozen Events’ in images. Rather they replace events by states of things and translate them into scenes.” (2013: 9) I find this to be […]