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  • Critical Inquiry

    • Link to Critical Inquiry. "The Winking Owl" is featured as the central image of the Spring 2000 issue. Link to Wang in the leftmost frame for an excerpt of Wang's article on the winking owl. Note: On my computer, when you link on the figures they come up on a separate browser screen. Look for it. You can tell because a new button appears on your taskbar. To return from the image to the article link on the Critical Inquiry button on the taskbar.

  • Degenerate Art (Entartete Kunst)

    • I'll compare the Winking Owl to Degenerate Art. I will also link this to Modernity and the Hegemony of Vision in Western Society, edited by David Micahel Levin, University of California Press, 1993. ISBN: 0-520-07972-8.

    Link to Degenerate Art to see other examples of the hegemony of vision in art. In other words "what this poem means is . . . ," "what this painting says is . . . ," instead of what you sense, given all the iconology and metaphor, when you read the poem or see the painting.

    The Degenerate Art site links to many of the paintings that the Nazis considered degenerate art in 1939. How do you feel about the hegemony of vision in art? How much control do you think we have over the visual context in which we live? How much control do we want? How do you think this relates to graffiti art today? Who decides what is art? Who is included? Who excluded? Who does care?