1 Theory
see cognitive perception

Select a particular artist or body of work, a Designer/Design School or an environment and relate to theory.

Can you see the dog?
Theories of Visual Perception and how they apply to image/image construction using fine art, advertising, digital or photographic examples e.g. visual illusions, eye & brain theories, visual perception, memory, left/right brain activity

References:
Apply Modernist theories such as Richard Gregory, Gestalt Perception, Gibson’s Field Theory and how they relate to post modern theories of social construction (the nature/nurture debates)

Theories and Practices and how these inter-relate and are applied to a particular Fine Art and/or Design areas of study.

Arte Povera - Pascali

References:
Apply Postmodern theories such as the psychology of space (Bachelard), Gaze Theory (Bryson), Visual Pleasure (Mulvey), Theories of the Abject (Kristeva), Theories of the Body, Theories of Performance, Mirror Theory (Lacan), Semiotics Theory of Sign, Signifiers and Signified

Conformity or Rebellion
In relation to specific images drawn from Fine Art and/or Photographic Imagery that are offering alternatives
e.g. style and identity, the changing faces/bodies of women/men, gendered identity and its construction etc. and the psychological theory that supports difference

References:
identity theory, gender differences, cultural differences, post colonial theory and discourses surrounding the selected image/s
.Iris - International Centre for Women Photographers

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