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Published: 2016-09-07 18:30:28 +0000 UTC; Views: 537; Favourites: 19; Downloads: 0
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“The spectacle is the nightmare of imprisoned modern society which ultimately expresses nothing more than its desire to sleep. The spectacle is the guardian of sleep.”
-Society of the Spectacle, Guy DeBord (1967)
Started off as yet another APH America doodle but then I got carried away with looking up 60s designs and patterns as well as fitting half remembered notes from my Art Modernism class from freshman year… basically thinking about the changing atmosphere of the midcentury, and the nation's changing relationship, in particular, to the media and images. Anyway working with greyscale is super relaxing and it was cool to experiment with the flat colors as well!! Also I used the base drawing to make this pic.
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"How do our pretendedly rational and programmed societies function? What motivates the populations, what stirs them? Scientific progress, objective information, insight into the facts and causes, the punishment of the truly guilty or the growth of collective happiness? Absolutely not: no one is interested in that. What fascinates everyone is the debauchery of appearances, that reality is always and everywhere debauched by appearances. That's an interesting game, and it's played out in the media, in fashion, in advertising - more generally in the spectacle of technology, of science, of politics; in any spectacle whatsoever. The veritable contemporary social bond is the concerted partaking in seduction. A revolution might alter the course of history, but only its spectacle is truly sublime. And which do we prefer? As Rivarol said, 'the people did not truly desire a revolution, they desired only its sight.' The spectaclist drive is more powerful than the self-preservation instinct, you can count on that." - Jean Baudrillard, Fatal Strategies
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whoa, that looks really cool. Kinda weird too, but still. OwO
Like I love the 60s elements in this a lot.
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Ahah late response but thanks!!
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