The Cult of Progress. Episode 8
Description
This episode is about the "Progress" as an ideology, and how the "civilizing" project that arose from Enlightenment ideas was fraught with contradictions. During a time when many artists turned to non-Western art and culture for inspiration, artists like Albert Bierstadt, George Catlin and Gottfried Lindauer’s captured very different representations of the relationship between Europeans and indigenous subjects. We explore how some artist followed in the footsteps of American Civil War photographers; with photojournalists like Jacob Riis turning the camera lens on the urban poor to help turn photography into a documentary art.
Runtime
53 min 26 sec
Series
Subjects
Database
Films on Demand
Direct Link
Similar Films
Plus Ça Change
Popular culture. Rage, rights, and responsibility
Sandra Blow
William Turnbull
Made in Taiwan
Civilizations. The cult of progress. Episode 8
Between the Folds
Front Gallery Panel at CCA. Seeking a way forward
William Kentridge. Art from the ashes
Isolated (Planet Home)
Surrealist Photography
AI Art
Norman Foster
Vong Phaophanit
CARIFESTA. Barbados 1981