Welcome! Welcome!

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Welcome! Welcome!
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Walking Together/June 2007 with my son Haipeng,
MA in Architecture

• MFA in English Creative Writing (Prose Fiction)
• Ph.D. in English (Literature)
• Chinese Language
• Cultural Studies
• Students accomplishment

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Interdisciplinary Writing 134

• Visual Intelligence Verbal Intelligence
• Thinking always includes, but not limited to,
  both visual and verbal dimensions.
• They are not always explicit and may need to be
  teased out.

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Visual Intelligence Verbal Intelligence

• Art, visual or verbal, explores issues and ideas
  that are relevant to us
• Ideas (propositions) come from making
  connections
• Connections are made by juxtaposition
  (apposition) and sequence, between parts Whole,
  etc.
• Meaning is generated from careful
  connections/juxtaposition
• Sequence entails consequences

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Chinese Radicals (Latin Radix for Root)Visual
Hint/Connection

• ? Tree/Wood
• ? Grove
• ? Forest

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A Character Is not a Box Instead, It Is a
Doorway

• Level 1 ? ? ? ?
• shan song feng xiàng
• Fir Pine Maple Oak
• Level 2 ? ? ? ?
• táo li lí
  xìng
• Peach Plum Pear Apricot
• Level 3--- ? ? ? ?
• chuáng zhuo yi guì
• Bed Table/Desk Chair Cabinet

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Chinese vs. English

• In CHINESE writing, you can SEE the
• clue on meaning Example MU
• In ENGLISH, you have to VISUALIZE
• Imagine a TREE, recall what THINGS look like
• Your Third Eye/Mind's eye the human ability for
  visualization, i.e., for the experiencing of
  visual mental imagery in other words, one's
  ability to "see" things with the mind.

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Unexpected JuxtapositionPulitzer-Winning
PhotographKevin Carter, 1993
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Approaching Visual TextsCompositional/technical

• Juxtaposition between vulture and baby?
• Visible and invisible information/cultural
  knowledge needed
• What is the nature of this juxtaposition
  harmonious or paradoxical?
• Sequence/order can we switch the position of the
  vulture and baby?

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Montagein Film Editing

• The juxtaposition of images to create new
  (additional) meaning not found in either
  individual shot by itself--1 1 3 (Russian
  School)
• Imagine if the vulture and the baby were shot
  individually
• The unusualness lies in the inherent conflict
  between the vulture and the baby to juxtapose
  them together is paradoxical to juxtapose the
  way as Carter has done is even more
  alarmingSequence creates consequence if the
  sequence is changed, consequence will be
  different.

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Emotional and Intellectual Dimensions in a Visual
Text

• Emotion and intellect are not separate
  analytical concepts but intertwined strands in
  the living painting. A painting, like a book or
  a sonata, has a life to share with us. William
  Kloss
• Sonata is a composition for one or two
  instruments, typically in three or four movements
  in contrasted forms and keys.  

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Compositional Analysis

• Perspective
• Foreground/midground/background
• Proportion and scale
• Contrast in baby herself the head vs. the body
• Contrast between the vulture and the baby girl
• Color scheme complementary or contrastive?

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Description Analysissummative/evaluative

• Description (Ch. 5)
• Logical sequence in organizing your description
• Spatial Relationships
• Five senses
• Details

• Analysis (Ch. 4)
• Break down
• Meaning/theme/subject
• Organization/form/
• structure
• Explanation
• Reflection
• Interpretation
• Evaluation

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Approaching a Visual TextContextual/Historical

• The Creation of Adam is a section of
  Michelangelo's fresco Sistine Chapel ceiling
  painted circa 1511. It illustrates the Biblical
  story from the Book of Genesis in which God the
  Father breathes life into Adam, the first man.
  Chronologically the fourth in the series of
  panels depicting episodes from Genesis on the
  Sistine ceiling, it was among the last to be
  completed.
• Types of information relevance

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Biographical note on the artist

• Velazquez, Diego Rodriguez de Silva y
  (1599-1660) One of the greatest Spanish painters
  and a master of realism. He was the court
  painter at Madrid and is known for his
  landscapes, mythological and religious paintings,
  genre pictures, and portraits, as well as for his
  brilliant illusionism and unique interpretations
  of subjects.
• Types of information relevance

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Marginalia/Description

• Marginalia
• Notes in the margin
• Samples in Frames of Mind
• Types of Notes
• Diction
• Syntax
• Contexual/Historical
• Crux something pivotal but perplexing

• Description
• Descriptive paragraphs convey how something
  looks, sounds, smells, tastes or feels.
• Transitional words and phrases mostly clarify
  spatial relationships.
• Describe the picture
• in a logical manner

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(Structure) Juxtaposition Creates Meaning

• Isolated, the two images remain inert (Alfred
  North Whitehead,1861-1947, in his book The Aims
  of Education, 1929) connected, they come to
  life
• The artistic eye (Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset
  Maugham 1915)
• What does Carter suggest through the vulture/girl
  connection/juxtaposition?
• What difference does it make if we swap the
  position between the vulture and the girl?
• Narrative quality in visual art
• Critical dimension in a visual text

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Structure/JuxtapositionAppositional/Oppositional

• Juxtaposition,
• an act or instance of placing close together or
  side by side, esp. for comparison or contrast
  the state of being close together or side by
  side.

• Harmony
• Tension
• Unexpectedness in artistic juxtaposition
• DefamiliarizationRussian formalism

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Sequence/ConsequenceNothing is random in art

• Placement CONTROLS ATTENTION.
• Connections by ELEMENTS
• Connections by Sameness Difference
• Connections by FORM
• Connections by ASSOCIATION

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Description/Larger PurposeDescriptive Language

• Descriptive paragraphs convey how something
  looks, sounds, smells, tastes or feels. (126)
• Transitional words and phrases mostly clarify
  spatial relationships.
• Spatial orderestablishes the perspective from
  which readers view details. For example, an
  object or scene can be viewed from top to bottom
  or from near to far. Spatial order is central to
  descriptive paragraphs.

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Juxtaposition The Last KissFeng
Zikai(1898.11.9-1975.9.15)
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Double-Column NotebookWhile A to B is like
this, C to D is like that

• Mother vs. baby
• Textual details (patches)
• Impersonal touch in adoption/ orphanage business

• Mother Dog vs. Puppies
• The second frame functions as commentary on the
  first frame
• Appositional

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The Block Structure (360)vs. the Alternating
Structure (361)

• The Block Method discuss one work in its
  entirety before taking up the other one

• The Alternating Approach moving back and forth
  between two works offer point-to-point analysis

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Constructing an ArgumentBased on textual Evidence

• Steps in collecting data (inductive)
• Evidence
• Warrant
• Claim
• Juxtaposition generate meaning

• Steps in presenting the conclusion (deductive)
• Claim
• Evidence
• Warrant
• Counterpoint
• Recap

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IntegrationHistorical/Biographical

• Adoption was handled in an impersonal manner in
  the old days in China
• Documenting the sources
• According to

• Feng Zikais bio
• Google Feng Zikai
• By author
• By subject
• By key words
• By title
• By combination
• Fish the book

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Pulitzer-Winning Photograph by Kevin Carter
1993/The Last Kiss by Feng Zikai(1898.11.9-1975.9
.15)
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The Steerage by Alfred Stieglitz published in
291 in 1915/Internal FramingTwo worlds separated
by a gangway bridge

• The Steerage is a photograph taken by Alfred
  Stieglitz in 1907. It has been hailed as one of
  the greatest photographs of all time because it
  captures in a single image both a formative
  document of its time and one of the first works
  of artistic modernism.

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Upper Deck vs. Lower Decktwo worlds separated by
a gangway bridge

• Contextual/historical
• Biographical
• Compositional/technical analysis
• Interpretation
• Drawing your claim/conclusion
• Google Alfred Stieglitz

• Juxtaposition/apposition/connection
• Sequence and consequence
• Cultural knowledge better view
• Critical/cutting edge
• Authorial intention

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Review

• 1. Thinking always has verbal visual elements
• 2. ALL IDEAS COME FROM CONNECTIONS
• --by IMAGE ELEMENT (visible appearance)
• --by CONCEPTS (many things share a concept)
• --by MOTIF (element that links several things)
• --by THEME (many things ABOUT same issue)
• --by STRUCTURE (hierarchy, strategy, shape)
• --by ASSOCIATION (emotion, events, etc.)
• 3. All ARGUMENTS depend on SEQUENCE
• 4. All COMPOSITION depends on a HISTORY.

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Young Girl/Old Woman Switchhttp//mathworld.wolfr
am.com/YoungGirl-OldWomanIllusion.html
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Navigating class website

• http//uwch-4.humanities.washington.edu/WG/134/1
  3420Workbook/

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Essay Format

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  LA20Sample20Paper.pdf