Sunday, 7 November 2010

Codes - Intertextuality. Portraiture

Definitions

Intertextuality - referring to other texts within a text. For example homage and parody.
Julia Kristeva, (1941-) Intertextuality - reference to other texts, borrow from allude to other art works. Narratives woven from echoes of other texts a ‘mosaic of quotations’

Homage -  making reference to a text intended for respect
Parody -  making reference to a text intended for humour

Appropriation -  using material from sources other than the artist's own: extracting, reproducing, recontextualisation, using 'ready mades', copying, simulation, quotation, parody, forging.

Authorship - past view of the artist having a 'contact' with the work resulting in the original and unique work of art. Foucault and Barthes argue 'death of the author' was part of a system of meaning.

Portrait - express the character of a person and beyond details of their appearance.


Arnold Newman's parody of Salvador Dali's Mona Lisa



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