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visual imagery
"There are two kinds of propaganda:
rational
propaganda in favor of action that is consonant with the enlightened
self-interest of those who make it and those to whom it is addressed;
non-rational propaganda that is not consonant with anybody's
enlightened
self-interest, but is dictated by, and appeals to,
passion."
Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
Revisited "During the last half of the
nineteenth century and the first decades of the twentieth,
the period during which the
idea of the movies became a reality, something momentous happened in
America, and it happened not only to American
culture but to the American consciousness.
Images began to flood the streets of the cities.
Publications
that had been limited to text were now, thanks to
new print
technologies, cluttered with
illustrations, so much so that some
critics even began complaining
about "over-illustration."
University of Chicago
historian Daniel
Joseph Boorstin found its source in the Graphic Revolution, a
remarkable rise in the quantity of visual material that had become available to
the public.
Everywhere in America there was
a new emphasis on seeing.
An
example was the staging of
department store windows, carefully arranged to provide
maximum visual stimulation.
What
made the Graphic
Revolution revolutionary was less the quantity of images than
their effect on the America
mind.
Daniel J Boorstin was concerned that the Graphic
Revolution encouraged image-thinking - thinking in terms of
an "artificial imitation
or representation of the external
form of any object, especially of an
individual."
This came at
the expense of edifying thought - thought in
terms of some ideal or value toward which to strive.
The glut of
images directs us to the here and now, to
something immediately useful in the moment; the ideal directs us to
something above and
beyond, to something the
utility of which may not be readily apparent or invisible.
In the
opinion of Daniel J Boorstin the 'Graphic Revolution' was a moral
devolution as well because it
replaced aspiration
with gratification.
Print demanded think things through logically -
ratiocination.
"To engage the written word means to follow a line of
thought which requires considerable powers of
classifying,
inference making and
reasoning." - Neil Postman,
Amusing Ourselves to Death
It followed that a predominantly
print-based society, as America's was until the late 19th century, while not
necessarily one coruscating with intellectual brilliance, nevertheless was
one in which logic,
order and context prevailed.
An image-based society, on
the other hand, dispensed with all these because images did not demand them.
How much logical discipline does one
need to recognize a image?" - Neil
Gabler |
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