Issue 8: Model

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: (PLEASE NOTE - DEADLINE EXTENDED!) October 30, 2005
send to: philament@arts.usyd.edu.au

Model: aesthetics, versions, imitate, endorse, template...

"I never diet. I smoke. I drink now and then.
I never work out. I work very hard, and I am worth every cent."

- Naomi Campbell

 

idealised aesthetics; pattern; sexism; orthodoxy; conformity; compliance; obedience; socialism;

homophobia; religion; imitation; traditions; tea ceremony; porn; indoctrination; cosmetics;

interim states and the working model; Nazi Germany and the Aryan ideal; Historical Revisionism;

standards; rhetoric; literary models; genre; aesthetics of marginalia; architecture; photography; clay

modelling; image; diagrams; marriage, make-up; law; politics;...blueprints; Model cars, planes,

trains and geekdom; The Bible; The Qur'an; The Torah; The Talmund; The Bhagavad-Gita; George

Orwell 1984; Oscar Wilde The Picture of Dorian Gray; Margaret Atwood The Handmaid's Tale;

Jacqueline Susann The Valley of the Dolls; Arthur Miller The Crucible; Nathaniel Hawthorne The

Scarlet Letter; Robert Altman; Prêt-á-Porter; Jennie Livingston Paris is Burning; Carol Reed The

Agony and the Ecstasy; Mark Robson Valley of the Dolls; Wachowski brothers The Matrix; beautiful

people; celebrity; "Model Behaviour" by Jay McInerney; America's Next Top Model; Search for a

Supermodel; Zoolander; archetype; prostitutes; artists; exemplar; Caravaggio; Picasso; Antonio

Gaudi; Jacques Lacan; Deleuze and Guattari; Emmanuel Kant...

 

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