Typologies and archetypes - Letcture 7
Typology: a classification according to general type, especially in archaeology, psychology, or the social sciences.
It’s the idea that things can be classified or catergoised into sections and areas, such a Jamie McCartney’s “the great wall of vagina”. This piece was made to change the view of the female body, i think it does its job as it’s saying that not every lady’s vagina is the same - thus stopping women from feeling inferior towards their peers, giving a sense of relief and belonging in the sense that it’s okay that it’s a little different. As we’re all a little different and that’s okay, but we’re all women regardless of our differences.
Thomas Ruff did something similar but with his students, he took passport like photos of each student and blew the images up. Possibly suggesting theres a sense of uniform. Or it’s a play around with identity, in my opinion the work is a collection of students and how each of their photos makes them an individual but when together they’re united by the fact that they’re students. They can be easily catergorised by that tagline, that’s a common trait they share and thus unifying them.
When it comes to archetypes, Tarantino might have possibly created one for gangsters - as we associate sharply dressed men as gangsters possibly because of Tarantino. As he made this evident in the film Pulp fiction as Samuel Jackson and John Travolta were smartly dressed gangsters ready to kill. These two set the standard for future gangsters and they’re apearences, thus creating an archetype for sharply dressed gangsters.
To summaries typology is the idea of catergosing things, items or even living beings.
