Ocularcentrism
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| + | [[Image:Venus at the Opera by Grandville.jpg|thumb|200px|''[[Venus at the Opera]]'' (1844) by [[Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard Grandville|Grandville]] (French, 1803 – 1847)]] | ||
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| - | # You need to [[see]] something to [[believe]] it; visible facts cannot be denied. | + | '''Ocularcentrism''' is the privileging of [[vision]] over the other [[sense]]s. The term was first attested in 1986[https://www.google.be/search?q=ocularcentrism&num=50&biw=1366&bih=643&source=lnt&tbs=cdr%3A1%2Ccd_min%3A31%2F12%2F1900%2Ccd_max%3A1%2F1%2F1987&tbm=bks]. |
| - | ##One of his most notable articles by [[Alan Dundes]] was called "[[Seeing is Believing]]" in which he indicated that Americans value the sense of [[sight]] more than the other senses. | + | It can be seen in much [[20th-century art]]. As [[Martin Jay]] notes in "[[The Disenchantment of the Eye: Surrealism and the Crisis of Ocularcentrism]]": |
| - | :"As [[Roland Barthes]] points out in "[[Sade, Fourier, Loyola]]" modernity changed the hierarchy between sound and image, priviliging the latter over the former. '[[Hearing is believing]]' became '[[seeing is believing]]'. Before modernity, hearing came first; believing meant listening to the word of God: ''[[auditum verbi Dei, id est fides]]''. --Surreal Documents via [http://surrealdocuments.blogspot.com/2007/04/abruptum-post-scriptum.html] | + | :"The eye was, in fact, a central Surrealist image, and indeed can be discerned in much 20th-century visual art. Anticipated by [[Odilon Redon]]'s haunting images of single eyes as balloons, flowers or Cyclops staring towards heaven, artists like de Chirico, Ernst, Dali, Man Ray and Magritte developed a rich ocular iconography." |
| + | Somewhere this preponderance developed into anti-ocularism. Narratives such as ''[[Story of the Eye]]'' by Georges Bataille and ''[[Un Chien Andalou]]'' profess anti-ocularism. | ||
| ==See also== | ==See also== | ||
| - | *[[Ocularcentrism]] | + | *[[Eye]] |
| + | *[[Retinal art]] | ||
| + | *[[Ocular]] | ||
| + | *[[Seeing is believing]] | ||
| + | *[[Out of sight, out of mind]] | ||
| + | ==Other ''-centrisms''== | ||
| + | *[[Phonocentrism]] | ||
| + | *[[Graphocentrism]] | ||
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Ocularcentrism is the privileging of vision over the other senses. The term was first attested in 1986[1].
It can be seen in much 20th-century art. As Martin Jay notes in "The Disenchantment of the Eye: Surrealism and the Crisis of Ocularcentrism":
- "The eye was, in fact, a central Surrealist image, and indeed can be discerned in much 20th-century visual art. Anticipated by Odilon Redon's haunting images of single eyes as balloons, flowers or Cyclops staring towards heaven, artists like de Chirico, Ernst, Dali, Man Ray and Magritte developed a rich ocular iconography."
Somewhere this preponderance developed into anti-ocularism. Narratives such as Story of the Eye by Georges Bataille and Un Chien Andalou profess anti-ocularism.
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