Foley Food Mill:
This artifact was descibed in a deconstructive way breaking down its construction and its blemishes. The mill, a seive that "purees" food while maintaining nutrients. While the product suggests a certain population (thos in need of care) it also represents a certain user (a care giver). Once again this is linked to the role of women as nurturers. Patented in 1933, the practice of "fear- ridden" child- rearing was only a few number of years prior. This was the propoganda of companies who made food products, mainly for yound children. Company advertisments would convince women that they're daily food preperation was endangering their children's health. The introduction of the mill was the reintriduction of women's role as a caring, nurtering care giver.
This essay brings up the manipulation of the audience again. In this case, women and mothers. What makes women of this time such an easy target?
Do men's role in child-rearing of the time play a role in this manipulation?
Artifacts as Expressions:
Using the exhibitions of Peale and the State House as examples of the time, the authers' first suggestion of the muti-sided state house serves as a watchful eye and a reminder of self discipline sets the tone of modeling humanities tendencies. Concerning Peal, the long hall drawing suggests orderliness and a need to measure. This was used to model naturla principles. Peale was the first to scientifically excavate a major fossil and his paintings of Revolutionalry War heroes represent personal attributes.
Has Peale's practice in exhibition informed our order of appropraitness or artifacts? Of personal attributes?
While this presenation of evolution gives us a place in nature and in the union, it has happened at the cost of Native American pride. In what ways as the modern wast been demoralized like the Native Americans through historical study... if at all?
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