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Purpose
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Schaeffer’s
stated goal in HSWTL is not to provide a comprehensive study of all of
Western culture, but rather to look carefully at points where major cultural
shifts seem to have occurred.
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My goal is to
show how some of these shifts were manifested in the visual arts and
highlight some influences that affected visual art particularly.
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Approach
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1. Pattern of Realism and Abstraction
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2. Technical innovations, new media
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McLuhan, Understanding
Media - “the medium is the message” - the most powerful influences of new
media on culture transcend whatever content them may happen to convey;
last 3 transitions can be illuminated in interesting ways by this concept.
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