Spectacle readings for Friday May 16

Anita’s readings: transparency painting

Mikhail Yampolsky, ‘Transparency Painting: From Myth to Theater‘, in Tekstura: Russian Essays on Visual culture, edited and translated by Alla Efimova and Lev Manovich, The University of Chicago Press, 1993.

Below is an image of transparencies in Melbourne and in Philadelphia in the 1860s.

Ben’s readings: extracts from Punch

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Next meeting’s topic confirmed

Next week’s meeting has been confirmed and will be discussing Spectacle.
Crowds and Crime will be the topic of the June 6 meeting.
Readings will be posted soon!

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