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| [[Image:Callot, miseries of war.jpg|thumb|right|200px|''[[The Miseries and Disasters of War]]'' ([[1633]]) by [[Jacques Callot]] | [[Image:Callot, miseries of war.jpg|thumb|right|200px|''[[The Miseries and Disasters of War]]'' ([[1633]]) by [[Jacques Callot]] | ||
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| - | <small>With the 16th century ''[[The Miseries and Disasters of War]]'', French 17th artist [[Jacques Callot]] anticipated [[Goya]]'s ''[[Disasters of War]]'', both of them criticizing the [[horrors of war]] in their art]] | + | <small>With the 16th century ''[[The Miseries and Disasters of War]]'', French 17th artist [[Jacques Callot]] anticipated [[Goya]]'s ''[[Disasters of War]]'', both of them criticizing the [[horrors of war]] in their art</small>]] |
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| | style="text-align: left;" |"But certainly for the present age, which prefers the [[sign]] to the thing [[signified]], the [[copy]] to the [[original]], [[representation]] to [[reality]], the [[appearance]] to the [[essence]]... [[illusion]] only is [[sacred]], [[truth]] [[profane]]. Nay, sacredness is held to be enhanced in proportion as truth decreases and illusion increases, so that the highest degree of illusion comes to be the highest degree of sacredness. "[[Ludwig Feuerbach|Feuerbach]], Preface to the second edition of ''[[The Essence of Christianity]]'' [[The present age prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, representation to reality, the appearance to the essence |more...]] | | style="text-align: left;" |"But certainly for the present age, which prefers the [[sign]] to the thing [[signified]], the [[copy]] to the [[original]], [[representation]] to [[reality]], the [[appearance]] to the [[essence]]... [[illusion]] only is [[sacred]], [[truth]] [[profane]]. Nay, sacredness is held to be enhanced in proportion as truth decreases and illusion increases, so that the highest degree of illusion comes to be the highest degree of sacredness. "[[Ludwig Feuerbach|Feuerbach]], Preface to the second edition of ''[[The Essence of Christianity]]'' [[The present age prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, representation to reality, the appearance to the essence |more...]] | ||
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With the 16th century The Miseries and Disasters of War, French 17th artist Jacques Callot anticipated Goya's Disasters of War, both of them criticizing the horrors of war in their art
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In general spectacle refers to an event that is memorable for the appearance it creates. While some literary critics and philosophers in the 20th century have offered a theory of "the spectacle" as a mode by which capitalism subordinates everyday experience (see Situationist spectacle), the term "spectacle" has also been a term of art in theater dating from the 17th century in English drama.
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Etymology
From Middle English, from Old French spectacle, from Latin spectaculum (“a show, spectacle”), from spectare (“to see, behold”), frequentative of specere (“to see”); see species.
Ancient origins
The term originated from the Roman practice of staging circuses, in the tradition of the Roman elite of providing "bread and circuses" to maintain civil order by distracting the populace from underlying social and economic problems.
Punishment as spectacle
The Restoration spectacle
The Hollywood spectacular
Situationist notion of Spectacle and spectacular society.
Dicta
- “Television, the drug of a nation” --The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy, 1992
- “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised” --Gil Scott-Heron, 1970
See also
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