The images are beautiful. No doubt. The best way that they are used with text is when you couple them with a newspaper clipping. That leaves the viewer to draw their own conclusions about what you are asking them to ponder. However, the word "preposterous" is clearly your view but you are telling your veiwer to believe it too. This is dangerous! You want to be making art, not propaganda!
Its definition is this: Propaganda is a form of communication that is aimed at influencing the attitude of a community toward some cause or position.
As opposed to impartially providing information, propaganda in its most basic sense, presents information primarily to influence an audience. Propaganda often presents facts selectively (thus possibly lying by omission) to encourage a particular synthesis, or uses loaded messages to produce an emotional rather than rational response to the information presented. The desired result is a change of the attitude toward the subject in the target audience to further a political agenda. Propaganda can be used as a form of political warfare. The term propaganda has acquired a strongly negative connotation by association with its most manipulative and jingoistic examples.
Suzanne, this is too nice of a book to risk shutting people down immediately. Subtlety is everything. SPEND TIME WITH IT BEFORE IT GOES TO PRESS> Call me if you need to.
The images are beautiful. No doubt. The best way that they are used with text is when you couple them with a newspaper clipping. That leaves the viewer to draw their own conclusions about what you are asking them to ponder. However, the word "preposterous" is clearly your view but you are telling your veiwer to believe it too. This is dangerous! You want to be making art, not propaganda!
ReplyDeleteIts definition is this: Propaganda is a form of communication that is aimed at influencing the attitude of a community toward some cause or position.
As opposed to impartially providing information, propaganda in its most basic sense, presents information primarily to influence an audience. Propaganda often presents facts selectively (thus possibly lying by omission) to encourage a particular synthesis, or uses loaded messages to produce an emotional rather than rational response to the information presented. The desired result is a change of the attitude toward the subject in the target audience to further a political agenda. Propaganda can be used as a form of political warfare.
The term propaganda has acquired a strongly negative connotation by association with its most manipulative and jingoistic examples.
Suzanne, this is too nice of a book to risk shutting people down immediately. Subtlety is everything. SPEND TIME WITH IT BEFORE IT GOES TO PRESS> Call me if you need to.
Val