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This programme analyses the nature of interpretation in the arts and suggests various models for understanding how we interpret the content of different art forms.
This programme analyses the nature of interpretation in the arts and suggests various models for understanding how we interpret the content of different art forms.
| Module code and title: | A101, An arts foundation course |
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| Item code: | A101; 28 |
| First transmission date: | 06-09-1978 |
| Published: | 1978 |
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| Duration: | 00:23:24 |
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| Producer: | Patricia Hodgson |
| Contributors: | Stuart Brown; Anthony Herrick |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Keyword(s): | Art; Fantasia; Ford Madox Brown; Jane Eyre; Mussorgsky's; Philosophy |
| Footage description: | The programme opens with brief film extracts showing the use of deaf language, foreign language interpretation and morse code. Stuart Brown compares these objective kinds of interpretation with interpretation of the arts. Animated diagrams are used to show the process of sending a morse message and to show a possible translation model that will apply to interpretation of both morse code and a work of art. Brown states the aims of the Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood, and argues that they embody a translation model of the artistic enterprise, le examines Ford Madox Brown's The Last of England and suggests the message it communicates. A short poem by Madox Brown about the painting is read by Herrick. Brown comments on the similarities of different art forms. Extract from Disney's Fantasia which interprets Mussorgsky's A Night on the Bare Mountain. Brown approves this visual interpretation of the music. However he dismisses Ernst Hoffmann's attempts to interpret Haydn's music. Herrick reads Hoffman's view on this over a variety of stills and Haydn's 57th symphony. Brown argues that the translation model does not apply in this case. Further music. Brown uses two visual puzzles to show that intlerpreting images is subjective rather than objective. He suggests a different model of interpretation to take account of this. He discusses Ford Madox Brown's The Protty Baa Lambs. Using three early Italian master's Madonnas he explains that Madox Brown's work can only be understood with reference to the work of these masters. He examines Madox Brown's Take Your Son Sir in a similar manner. Brown then interprets Turner's Rain, Steam, Speed. Brown applies the new model of interpretation to a passage from Jane Eyre. The relevant scene from the BBC adaptation of the novel is shown. Brown examines the television interpretation of the passage, and concludes that it is a misinterpretation, and ends with a general comment on the interpretation of works of art. |
| Master spool number: | 6HT/72774 |
| Production number: | 00525_3246 |
| Videofinder number: | 2618 |
| Available to public: | no |
