Culture and Representation

Culture and Representation

Culture can reside in galleries and museums

Raymond Williams- from a working class Labour background, showed culture from various places and how it's not exclusively one class',

Is constantly defined and redefined by everyday people, the ordinary common meanings and the individual meanings (the individual can change the common culture through individual culture),

Culture Club, 1981- mix of cultures, embodies intersection,

Revolution Kid (Foxy Boy), Yinka Shonibare MBE, 2012- irony due to Nigerian man becoming a part of British culture, put his presence into various classic works to show a black presence in a white-dominated art period,
    Nelson's Ship in a Bottle, 2010- In Trafalgar Square, sponsored by a Nigerian Bank, of HMS Victory, commemorates the Battle of Trafalgar, expansion of trade and freedom of seas, "take a childlike sense of wonder and put it in a larger form in Trafalgar Square",

Culture is about shared meanings, Representation is how we make sense of it, Language being a common form of this (though not the only method),
    Things themselves have no meaning: they only gain one when you apply language to them,

Art uses the word "Italianicity" :)

Learn my own history, because originality and plagiarism are pretty difficult to mix up. Don't look like that idiot.