1. Find a clear definition of Intertextuality and quote it accurately on your blog using the APA referencing system. Use your own words to explain the definition more thoroughly.
Intertextuality is the shaping of texts' meanings by other texts.
In my definition, it is the reuse of another person’s style or idea. However it is transformed or edited into another persons style or vision. For example these t-shrt designs I have found. They all show references to other designs or ideas.
2. Research Wiley's work and write a paragraph that analyzes how we might make sense of his work. Identify intertextuality in Wiley's work.
When initially looking at his works you see a very feminim design style. However on closer analysation I can see a reference to the ‘gangster rapper’ culyture in the black community. The feminim qualities shown in his works definitely reflect a gay personality as they challenge stereotypical ideas. Wiley has combined two very different styles of painting, the gangster rapper, and feminism qualities however the paintings still work very well as a whole. Intertextuality is shown as he has combined two very different design styles in a way which not very many people would think of. Wiley’s works challenge the viewers ideas and may offend some people, however this is a main quality of post modern design.
3. Wiley's work relates to next weeks postmodern theme "PLURALISM". Read page 46 and discuss how the work relates to this theme.
‘A point of view has no absolute truth, only a relative, subjective value according to how you perceive things. There are many ways of looking at any issue.’
Every single viewer of his paintings would have a different reaction. Some may find it highly offensive and others may be able to relate to it. In conclusion everyone is different and would have a different reaction. This is what the idea of post modernism is – challenging people’s thoughts and making them think in a different way.
4. Comment on how Wiley's work raises questions around social/cultural hierarchies , colonisation, globalisation, stereotypes and the politics which govern a western worldview.
Wiley’s work has been very controversial. He is touching on very sensitive subjects such a homosexuality, racism and insult to black people. I feel he is trying to break down these social/cultural hierarchies as he is portraying the black people in very important paintings. The way they have been asked to pose also alludes to the way people in the renaissance were asked to pose. His works take aspects of life from different times, different places and different people that were not really seen in the times of the renaissance, against the way things are done in this western world.
5. Add some reflective comments of your own, which may add more information that you have read during your research.
I really admire the way he has combined different qualities that are not very ‘glamorous’ and are new to the western world. Such as, homosexuality and black people of power. He has chosen these newer qualities but portrayed them in a very old-fashioned portrait type of style.
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intertextuality. (n.d.). Dictionary.com's 21st Century Lexicon. Retrieved August 29, 2011, from Dictionary.com website: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/intertextuality
definition of pluralism – taken from notes in class.
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