HOMEPAGE INTRODUCTION MEMORY TIME PERSPECTIVE HISTORY BANANA CINNAMON PANCAKES REVIEW TRACK

PERSPECTIVE

ABOUT PERSPECTIVE:

Perspective could be interpreted in several ways. Firstly, it could relate itself to the art of depicting solid objects on a two-dimensional surface as to give the right impression of their height, width, depth, and position in relation to each other.[1]

Perspective can also mean a point of view - the position from which an individual or group of people see and respond to, the world around them. The way perspective is related to memory connects to a particular attitude towards something. The perspectival aspects of our memories are not often explicit in conscious awareness but are pre-reflective structural features of the ways we remember past events. Most people can switch between an Internal Perspective and an External Perspective of the same event.[2] This is important due to the fact that there is a strong relationship between the working memory capacity and this ability to switch between the two perspectives in creating the big picture of our memories.[3]

Perspective in art can thus be explored in relation to the viewpoint of artists and how they use this in making their work. All of us have an individual perspective which affects how we think about and respond to the world around us

When having looked at the Internal and external perspectives of the artist, one might want to dig into the artist's psyche and involve oneself in Psychoanalytic Criticism.

Michael Clarke. The concise Oxford dictionary of art terms. (Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 2010), 188.
John Sutton, Memory Perspectives. Sage Journals 7, No. 2 (March 13, 2014), 141.
Christopher Draheim et al. Combining Reaction Time and Accuracy: The Relationship Between Working Memory Capacity and Task Switching as a Case Example. Perspectives on Psychological Science (2016), 133.
TATE MODERN. Perspective, Accessed January 14, 2022. https://www.tate.org.uk/art/student-resource/exam-help/perspective.
TATE MODERN. Emma Kay: Worldview., Accessed January 14, 2022. https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/kay-worldview-p78340.

Emma Kay, Worldview, 1999. Digital print on paper, 1760 x 2705 mm, Tate Modern, London.

WORLDVIEW- EMMA KAY (1999)

Worldview is a large text work in which Emma Kay recounts a history of the world, starting from the 'big bang', in which the earth was created, and ending with apocalyptic visions stimulated by the imminent millennium at the end of 1999. This work by Emma Kay showcases the combination of personal memory and Collective Memory, therefore also slightly showcasing the internal perspective of an artist towards collective history, which is more often perceived, or observed, from an external perspective.[5]