COP Seminar: Lad Culture -Feedback and Peer and Teacher Review.

• I will be attempting a Ralph Steadman-esque way of producing work... I think this will be a great artist to look at as I want my work to have a satirical yet dark aspect to it; a combination between life like and caricaturist. I also love the media he uses and the way he feels his way around the paper by just experimenting with ink splatters and emphasising the mood of the work through this process. I really like the way he incorporates animal features into his characters; this really links in to my project as I focus a lot on the pack mentality of lad culture. 
• My Pinterest of a selection of Ralph Steadman's work: http://www.pinterest.com/dearalice1/ralph-steadman/
• Get lot's of reportage work in my sketchbook! -university life; boys/girls/lecturers/lads/antilads/items/objects.
• Fine line between messing about and serious issues. 
• Pack mentality - constant throughout human history- useful and helpful but can go out of control... how does it go out of control? 
• First time people are away from home: university.
• Quickly want to find a group - human instinct - protection/survival.
• Lad culture- bullying - boys and girls (being bullied and bullying - urgh hes such a girl/soft/weakling/pussy)
• Ask Richard for theoretical research!
• Lad sins - e.g. 'wifin' - get to the sin bin!
• How people act in different groups depends on where theyre going/who theyre with/what the expectations of their behaviour are... what if I practically drew a juxtaposition - lads doing the unexpected
• Typology - visually - objects
• Young men are most vulnerably - high suicide risk/more likely to be attacked - pressure
• Tutors aren't responsible for the students social life etc... no influence
• Sanctuary of the Self - watch! - Construction of contemporary consumerism
• International 
• Drawing research 
• Ken loach 
• Time Machine - by HT Wells
• Tokyo Godfathers
• No logo

Censorship and 'Truth'

Ansel Adams

• Moonrise Hernandes New Mexico 1941-2 
• Aspens

Fall of Communism

• Pravda
• Ironically means 'truth' 
• Censored and filtered news presented to Russia and Europe by the Soviet Communist Party.
• Stalin photographed with Trotsky but had him removed when it was against his interest to be seen with him.

Kate Winslet for GQ Magazine

• They Photoshopped her and elongated her legs.
• Yet they forgot to change her reflection in the mirror. 

Robert Capa 

• Death of Loyalist soldier, 1936
• Soldier running down hill for the photo, the opposing side in the civil war shot him- they were supposed to be on 'siesta' time.
• Invented an American persona- he was actually Hungarian.

The Case of the Mexican Suitcase

Elliot Aronson in Pratkanis and Aronson

Tom L. Beauchamp 

• Manipulative Advertising, 1984

Simolacrum - an image/representation of someone something that's unsatisfactory.

Jean Baudrillard 

• Simulaca
• Simmulation
• The Gulf War did not take place 1995 p.40 Penguin
• Dictionary of Critical Theory Penguin Books.

Peter Turnley 

• The Unseen Gulf War, Dec 2002
• Mile of Death

It is a masquerade of information: branded faces delivered over to the prostitution of image. 

'Make war like love, with a condom'

Len Jarede 

• Iraq Soldier, 1991

An-my Le 

• from Small Wars

Mechanised attracct even ashore the practice or policy of censoring films etc.

Morals - Principles of right or wrong.
Censor - To ban or cut portions of a film, letter or publication.
Ethics - Code of behaviour: moral value of human behaviour.

Theodore Levitt

Morality of Advertising - Cook, G.

Oliviero Toscani

• United colours of Beretton Advert, 1992
• Aids - Homosexuality - Jesus
• Publicity generated. 
• Nudity and decorative models
• Opium Advert - implies drugs - sexual ecstasy 

ASA

Stephen Meisal

Agnolo Bronzia 

• Venus, cupid, foly lime, 1543, oil on wood. 
• Mother and son - incestuous - shag and groping 
• Germaine Greer

Balthus - The Golden Years

Therese Dreaming

Manet - Dejeuner sur l'herbe, 1863.

Andy Earl

• Bow Wow Wow - record cover
• 1980
• 14 year old girl

Amy Adler

• The folly of defining serious art
• Miller test, 1973
• Should work be labelled as obscene

Obscenity Law

• To protect art whilst prohibiting cash

Ally Mann 

• Candy Cigarette
• Photographing her children
• 1989
• Tierney Gearon - Untitled, 2001
• News of the World - 'A revolting exhibition under the guise of art.'
• Protection of Children Act 

Nan Goldin

• Klara and Edda belly dancing, 1998

Richard Prince 

• Spiritual America, 1983
• Spiritual America IV, 2005 
• Reclaiming her control of having that photograph taken... does this really seem to be her regaining control or is she being taken advantage of again?

Jack Bankonsky 

• Tate Modern co-curator

Michele Cornoyer

• The Hat
• 2000

Garg Gross

If it is drawn, can you distance yourself more?

How much should we believe what is represented in the media?

Who should be protected?

Rest of presentation can be found on Estudio.

Lad Culture: Artist Research

Ralph Steadman

Globalisation

Socialist  - the process of transformation of loval or regional phenomena into global ones.

• Economic forces
• Technological forces
• Socio-cultural forces
• Political forces

It can be described as a process by which the people of the world unified into a single society and function together. 

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Globalisation 

• The spread of the free market so that it can expand globally.
• Replace different cultures with one single culture  - today it's America (Westernisation).

George Ritzer

• McDonaldisation 
• Wide ranging sociocultural processes by which the principles of fast food restaurants dominating the world. 
• Peoples jobs more meaningless.
• Low salaries.
• Massive profit.
• 1 product the same the world over. 

Marshall McLuhan 

• Rapidity of communication echoes the senses
• We can experience instantly the effects of our actions on a global scale. 
• Increase humanity of the world.
• 'As electrically controlled the globe is no more than a village. - community involvement.

Centripetal forces 

• Bringing the world together in a uniform global society.

Centrifugal forces

• Tearing the world apart in tribal wars.

3 Problems of Globalisation

• Sovereignty - Challenges to the idea of the nation state.
• Accountability - Transnational forces and organisations; who controls them?
• Identity - Who are we? Nation, group, community. 

Pessimistic hyperglobalisers 

Cultural Imperialism 

• Schiller
• Chonsky 
• If the 'global village' is run with a certain set of values then it would not be so much of an integrated company as an assimilated one.

Rigging the 'Free Market'

• Media conglomerates operate as oligopolies - spend western globally.
• American dominate media
• News corporations divide world into territories of descending 'market important.
• US medis power can be thought of a new part of imperialism 
• Stiller
• Skin whitening - media, to be successful must look a certain way.

Chumsky and Herman, 1998

• Manufacturing consent
• Propaganda and a model - 5 filters 
• Ownership, funding,sourcing, flak, ideology (e.g. anti-Islam)

Ownership - Rupert Murdock

• News of the world/ the sun, times/fox/NY post.
• He argued he had the power to get a politician elected.
• Journalists - to keep their jobs they can't be too harsh on politicians.
• For mass appeal - play on stereotypes - cements the idea that your world view is correct
• Industry being shut down - low wages/hours - immigration is not to blame but is used as a scape goat. 

Flak 

• GCC - US base 
• Concerted and intentional efforts to change public opinions. 

Al Gore

• An Inconvenient Truth 
• Release less CO2, plant more vegetarian 
• Recycle, C02 neutral - buy new lightbulbs, electronic car - buy - solution - buy more stuff - same system. 

Flat Earthers (against Global Warming being a real issue - they make money from putting C02 in the atmosphere.)

• Jim Inhofe 
• Nigel Lawson
• Competative, Enterprise, Institute -Try to dispel the myth of global warming. 
• Global warming - direct result of C02 production. - increasing temp from 1910

Sustainability

• Sustainable development that meets the needs of the present without compromising future generations, 
• Sustainable growth is a contradiction in terms; nothing physical can grow indefinitely. 

BIOX Biofuel Plant Canada 

• 'Clean' fuel renuable - more expensive- alienating people. 
• Factory - in the middle of poor area, ruined lives - negative consequences - poluted rivers etc. 

Green Washing 

• New market for consumption corporations fool us into buying products- rare that they have any benefits to the world.
• McDonalds -red to green 
• Kimberly Clarke - responsible for deforesting - say they're eco-friendly
• Coco cola - plant bottle - lied in their statistics - Didn't do any research. 
• Most things are designed for the need of the manufacturers to sell. 

Ecologism 

• We need to reassess our relationship between each other and the environment. 

Adbusters 

• Blackspot Sneaker.
• Anti- capitalist.
• The wil drinkable book
• The Story of Stuff - Annie Lennard. 

Consumerism: Persuassion, Society, Brand and Culture

• National cash register building
• Adam Curtis - Century of Self 
• Naomi Klein  - No Logo 1999

Sigmund Freud

• Psychoanalysis- hidden primitive sexual forces and animal instincts which need controlling.
• The Interpretation of Dreams 1899
• The Civilisation and it's Discontents 1930 - consumerism 
• ID, Ego, Super Ego - unconscious. 
• Fundamental tension between civilisation and the individual.
• Human instincts incompatible with the well being of community.
• The pleasure principle.

Edward Bernays 1891 - 1995

• Public Relations
• Employed by public information office during WW1 - propaganda
• Crystallizing Public Opinion, 1923
• Propaganda, 1928
• If you can attach instinctual meaning to consumerist products - can make them need/want them
• Product placement
• Celebrity endorsements
• The use of pseudo scientific reports

Fordism - Henry Ford, 1863- 1947

• Transposes Taylorism to car factories of Detroit 
• Requires large investment, but increases productivity so much that relatively high wages can be paid, allowing the workers to buy the product they produce. 
• Car - buy to make you more sexually desirable.
• Need culture - desire culture- self - replaced with consumer self
• The Hidden Persuaders - Vance Packard

Marketing hidden need.

Selling

• Emotional security 
• Reassurance of worth
• Ego gratification
• Creative outlets
• Love objects
• Sense of power
• Sense of roots
• Immortality

Walter Lippmann 

• A new elite is needed to manage the bewildered herd- 'Manifacturing Consent' 1920. 

Research what people want - what they desire and advise governments. If you can create a system where these dangerous desires are being met then people will be docile and happy which will preserve the system as it is. Money to big companies who give the public the illusion of freedom. 

• Government policies allowing big businesses 
• Communism - alternative model to consumerism - profit - cant expand the market anymore - boom and crash - America 24 October 1929. 'Black Tuesday' led to the Great Depression. 
• If you allow big businesses to do whatever they want the society will be damaged.

Roosevelt and the 'New Deal' - soft socialism - more restrictions on big business. Tax big businesses and distribute to poor. 

Giant PR exercise -PR (propaganda for big business) - World's Fair. Pioneered by Bernays - meant to be a celebration of America... free... you can buy anything - consumerism =choice.

Big business knows whats good for the country rather than politicians - democracy - illusion of democracy - centralise power - we're all kept placid cementing the social order as it is. 

• Consumerism is an ideological project.
• We believe that through consumption our desires can be met. 
• The customer self. 
• The legacy of Bernays can be felt in all aspects of 21st Century society. 
• Conflicts between alternative models.