“To be able to translate the customs, ideas and appearance of my times as I see them - in a word, to create a living art - this has been my aim.” Has BeensArtIdeasAbleCultureAimAppearanceMy TimeCustomsTranslate Author:Gustave Courbet
“In its relation to the reality of daily life, the high culture of the past was many things opposition and adornment, outcry and resignation. But it was also the appearance of the realm of freedom: the refusal to behave.” RealityPastCultureRelationAppearanceBehaveRealmsOppositionDaily LifeRefusalResignationAdornment Book:One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society Source: One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society
“Girls have long been evaluated on the basis of appearance and caught in myriad double binds: achieve, but not too much, be polite,but be yourself, be feminine and adult; be aware of our cultural heritage, but don't comment on the sexism. . . . Girls are trained to be less than who they really are. They are trained to be what the culture wants of its young women, not what they themselves want to become.” WantLongYoungCultureGirlToo MuchAchieveAdultsBasesCaughtAppearanceBeing YourselfFeminineSexismCommentHeritageYoung WomenPoliteCultural Heritage Author:Mary Pipher
“...There are issues worth advancing in images worth admiring; and the truth is never "plain," nor appearances ever "sincere." To try to make them so is to neutralize the primary, gorgeous eccentricity of imagery in Western culture since the Reformation: the fact that it cannot be trusted, that imagery is always presumed to be proposing something contestable and controversial. This is the sheer, ebullient, slithering, dangerous fun of it. No image is presumed inviolable in our dance hall of visual politics, and all images are potentially powerful.” TryingFactsCultureFunPowerfulIssuesDangerousTruth IsWesternAppearancePrimariesVisualsHallsSincereTrustedSheerGorgeousImageryControversialReformationAdvancingAdmiringEccentricityWestern Culture Author:Dave Hickey