Mirzoeff textbook, How to See the World Chapter 2
"Seeing the world is not about what we see but what we make of what we see."
- Everyone sees things differently. A thousand people have a thousand opinions. You just have to take what you see seriously. If other people's ideas are better, you can learn from them, but you can't easily deny other people's opinions.
"Indeed it is noticeable that people today often put more trust in a less than perfect pgotograph or video that takes an effort to decipher than they do into a professionally finished work, because they suspect that the latter will have been manipulated."
- Most people are more willing to trust an unaltered photo or video because people think that an altered photo or video is not trustworthy because the person who altered it will use it to manipulate the authenticity of the matter.
John Berger, Ways of Seeing, Chapter 4+5
"Oil paintings often depict things. Things which in reality are buyable. To have a thing painted and put on a canvas is not unlike buying it and putting it in your house. If you buy a painting you buy also the look of the thing it represents."
- People often buy a painting because the things and images in the painting are accepted and recognized by people.
“Such pictures were particularly popular with the newly arrived bourgeoisie who identified themselves not with the characters painted but with the moral which the scene illustrated.”
- The moral meaning in the painting is more important to the people who buy the painting, because it not only represents their recognition of the painting, but also the painting's recognition of them.
Wangechi Mutu Dresses Cultural Critique in Freakishly Beautiful Disguises
“organized by contemporary art curator David Moos, Mutu ironically underscores the violence and oppression that“civilization ”often entails. ”
- In human civilization, people often conflict for power and interests, and even wars break out. Wherever there are people, there will be conflicts. This is a fact that will never change because human greed and desire will never go away.
“Mutu’s work is informed by important social and cultural issues, but leaves the ugly truths for the surrounding discourse, even though there are hints in the works, such as stereotypical depictions of “exotic” Africans."
- Women will be regarded as objects of sexual desire in any era. Mutu's works allude to and satirize this phenomenon without being harshly preachy. She wants people to be aware of the issue and think about it.
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