The theme of our final project was television and its impact on society in the 1970's-1990's. The growth of television in the 70's-90's greatly impacted society. It brought in an uncanny form of entertainment to stay-at-home mothers, families, children, and teens.
We chose our items based on their relevance to television in the 1970's-1990's their influence on society. The layout of our project was in the format of four televisions stacked in the shape of a square, like in the theme of the Brady Bunch. The Brady Bunch is a show about one big family that is a mash of two divorced families; it made divorce socially acceptable. We also used several stuffed animals from various children's education shows such as Sesame Street and the Muppets. Sesame Street was created in 1969 and it became the standard for educational television, which allowed children to learn in a "fun" way. We also adorned our boxes with clothing from the 70's to demonstrate the influence of television on fashion. We also spread other various items from television shows in the 70's-90's around our boxes such as a mini wheel of fortune, a clock to represent 60 minutes, and old VHS, and rabbit ear antennae.
Our quest to find our "found art" items began with our individual searches through our homes. After we had scrounged our homes for old items relating to television, we moved on to asking friends and family if they had anything that could be of use to us.
If I were to do this project again, I would definitely begin earlier and spend more time decorating the boxes outside of class.
My advice to next year's class is that it is not as easy as you would think it would be to find items from the 1970's-1990's even though all our parents were alive during this time. What we would consider "found art", they consider junk; a lot of them threw all their old stuff away.
-Polly Cho
the media influencing America has had it's impact. starting in the 60's, and even more so later on. Watch: Mad Men on the amc channel, it will show you how advertising world works.
ReplyDeleteI like your topic! I like how you included children's education shows because my parents definitely had me watch those when I was little too.
ReplyDeleteVery nice. This is a very interesting topic. I actually learned many things that I did not know before.
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Interesting facts. I did not know when Sesame Street came about but I like it a lot better than TeleTubbies which are rather creepy. Good idea for the layout of the boxes in the shape of tvs.
ReplyDeleteI liked the picture of the TV. It shows the main source of the media back then
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