Umberto Eco

gallery. Many said this work was bad or ugly and sneered at it. I found myself wondering time and time again why? Is it ugly because it doesn’t fit our notions of genially preconceived beauty today? With the help of David Shapir’s essay on beauty and Umberto Eco’s writings on the ugly, I examine what makes this work. I feel this painting stands out in the gallery full of aesthetically pleasing works. Instead of relying on visual beauty this painting dose everything to crush this beauty standers.…

Umberto Eco said of himself, “I’m a writer, not a reader” and I would say that the same has been true of me for a long time. But a writer needs readers, so… Along with virtual book tours, most of the experts I consulted at the beginning of this marketing journey recommended getting jiggy on Goodreads. Goodreads — a social media platform for readers — is simultaneously a cool thing and a desperately UN-cool thing. If you’re a reader you can learn a lot about books you might enjoy, interact with…

Massimo Vignelli: New York Subway Diagram. Communication is an essential part of graphic design. Public signs, utility signs, and road signs are examples of how a design communicate the information with the use of graphical elemtns. As up in coming graphic designers, it is important for us to understand how we should approach informative design; creating something that is just aesthetically pleasing won’t be an effective tool for the public to utilize in everyday life. A perfect example of how…

“Sizzling chemistry, jealousy, heartbreak and the unmistakeable early signs of love – and that is just in the first episode. The Bachelor Australia is back and it is bigger than ever.”(Network Ten, 2014)- more like sizzling script, hyped emotions, emphasised heartbreak and forced signs of lust for money. The Bachelor is a romance based reality television program intended on giving single people the chance to find love- or more commonly, some mild celebrity. Reality television programs based on…

In the essay Casablanca:cult movies and intertextual collage, from the collection of essays titled Travels of Hyper Reality,Umberto Eco has taken the case of the 1940’s popular American movie Casablanca,directed by Michael Curtis to explain how and why it gained the status of a ‘cult’ movie.He has given a number of reasons in the essay as to why people liked it so much.Eco begins by making it clear that the movie according to him is not a very artistic movie and that despite that the movie has…

2. A First-Hand Contact: Form and Content 2.1. Elimination of Semiotics in CETI If we choose a means of communication out of signs, symbols and indices are no longer relevant, as to decipher them, a recipient should have conventional knowledge about the referent of the sign and knowledge of a situation prior to the communication event. It would be too impudent to presuppose aliens to have such knowledge. Still, the iconic signs remain. ‘Icons, which bear physical resemblances to what they…

world. By reading narrative, we escape the anxiety that attacks us when we try to say something true about the world. This is the consoling function of narrative — the reason people tell stories, and have told stories from the beginning of time.” (Umberto Eco, Six Walks in the Fictional Woods, Pg. 87) Each and every escape life through literacy. Through speaking and reading, we create a world that has yet to…

Humour is considered as common and universal social phenomenon that has been a part of human history starting from the ancient times. It touches every aspect of our life with or without our permission. It is impossible to avoid and applies to any subject, whether in conversation, literature, press or music and television. (Berger 1998:1). The word “humour” derives from Latin: humor “moisture”, humere “to be moist” and was used by scientists and doctors in the Middle Ages to describe four body…

Entry one: Various creativity seminars motivated me to think about the following question. ‘as a society, are we really as inclusive as we like to think we are? For the purpose of this assignment, I chose the film The Young Offenders as my object of discussion and reflection. Life for people with disabilities has changed drastically over the last 30 years. Society has moved on from the medical model, which focussed on the impairment. Whereas, the social model, which arose in response to a…

Superman is the ultimate superhero and is considered an American cultural icon. He first appeared in Action Comics in 1938. Created by two jewish high school students, writer Jerry Siegel and artist Joe Shuster, Superman helped to define the superhero genre. That same year he was sold and became an official member of DC Comics, where he continues to appear over the years in comic strips, television series, and feature films. Superman has it all. His strength is practically unlimited. He can…