'Defining the concept of aura by applying it to the collecting and analysing of bluegrass album covers.'
- Can listen/see/make art everywhere-very accessible
- Bringing artists and culture back to life
- Collecting things for specialness, vintage, identity
- Uniqueness, aura, authenticity
- Reproduction vs analogue
- Key themes of bluegrass songs and covers
- Lack of women in bluegrass
- Modern Vs Old covers (hard to find, passed down)
Core texts:
- Paul Velery 'The conquet of ubiquity'
- Jean Baudrillard 'System of collecting'
- Andrew Robinson 'Art, Aura and Authenticity
- Walter Benjamin 'The work of Art in the age of mechanical reproduction'
- Phil Taylor ' Analogue VS Digital in the creative process'
- David Douglas 'The work of Art in the age of digital reproduction'
- John Berger 'Ways of seeing'
- David Greenwald 'The art on your sleeve'
- Heidelberg 'The Thing'
- Neil V. Rosenberg 'Bluegrass A History'
Key quotes/Triangulation:
- 'can all self publish with ease' DD 'the days of pilgrimage are over' JB 'will exist wherever someone with a certain apparatus happens to be' PV
- 'closest one can get to the artists intension' DG
- 'quantity is in fact activated by quantity' (Callot) JB 'manages to literally outline himself through his collection' (Freud) JB 'intimate, and perhaps authentic, relationship' PT 'urge grows stronger to get hold on an object at close range' WB
- 'aura resides not in the thing itself but in the originality of the moment' DD 'although it is hard to use in medium with inconsistent results, the desire for the "authentic" o medium is driving the resurgence in interest' PT 'a wave breaking on a beach' DD 'the uniqueness of a work of art is inseparable from it being imbedded in the fabric of tradition' WB
- 'the reproduced art is completely detached from the sphere of tradition' AR 'no longer a clear distinction between original and reproduction in virtually any medium' DD 'authenticity cannot be reproduced' AR
- 'a culture that did not encourage women to follow their own muses' 'i couldn't really accept her voice as a bluegrass instrument' thebluegrasssituation.com
Practical way to explore:
Something to do with creating and album cover and a reproduction of the album cover. Linked to bluegrass, drawing on primary evidence from my bluegrass band.
OPENING
This essay will explore the idea of aura and originality through an analysis and
discussion of a selection of bluegrass album covers. The main concerns explored in
the essay are aura, time and collecting.. The topic was chosen as a way of
exploring a creative practice in a bluegrass band more theoretically, at the same
time as linking this exploration to existing analogue interests that emerge from
illustration practical work.
The selection of album covers chosen are used as visual examples to discuss theory
around. They also tell a narrative of bluegrass in their composition. The themes
raised in the narrative of the album covers can be broken down and explored
through the discussion between reproduction and analogue, considering uniqueness
and authenticity and how increased accessibility to albums themselves has
impacted on this. Another theme is why people have the desire to collect, and is
this perhaps an attempt to bring culture back to life? The visual and aural themes
of the bluegrass genre are unpicked thorough exploring a series of traditional songs
that appear in the musical practice discussed here. In addition, these themes are
also discussed from a historical and critical visual analysis perspective using, for
example, Rosenberg’s Bluegrass A History (XXXX). Another important text is XXXX
by XXXX (XXXX).
Aura and analogue elements of reproduction will be discussed thought he writings
of Jean Baudrillard – who discussed collecting – and Walter Benjamin – who helped
to define the concept of aura and began challenging it. Douglas’s writings on aura,
from a contemporary perspective, are also used to unpick the themes. The culture
and aesthetic of the bluegrass genre, and the enormous significance of landscape
and place, are portrayed in the film XXXX by XXXX (date) that is also referred to in
this essay.
OPENING
This essay will explore the idea of aura and originality through an analysis and
discussion of a selection of bluegrass album covers. The main concerns explored in
the essay are aura, time and collecting.. The topic was chosen as a way of
exploring a creative practice in a bluegrass band more theoretically, at the same
time as linking this exploration to existing analogue interests that emerge from
illustration practical work.
The selection of album covers chosen are used as visual examples to discuss theory
around. They also tell a narrative of bluegrass in their composition. The themes
raised in the narrative of the album covers can be broken down and explored
through the discussion between reproduction and analogue, considering uniqueness
and authenticity and how increased accessibility to albums themselves has
impacted on this. Another theme is why people have the desire to collect, and is
this perhaps an attempt to bring culture back to life? The visual and aural themes
of the bluegrass genre are unpicked thorough exploring a series of traditional songs
that appear in the musical practice discussed here. In addition, these themes are
also discussed from a historical and critical visual analysis perspective using, for
example, Rosenberg’s Bluegrass A History (XXXX). Another important text is XXXX
by XXXX (XXXX).
Aura and analogue elements of reproduction will be discussed thought he writings
of Jean Baudrillard – who discussed collecting – and Walter Benjamin – who helped
to define the concept of aura and began challenging it. Douglas’s writings on aura,
from a contemporary perspective, are also used to unpick the themes. The culture
and aesthetic of the bluegrass genre, and the enormous significance of landscape
and place, are portrayed in the film XXXX by XXXX (date) that is also referred to in
this essay.
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