Practices of Looking 49-62

In the book it talks about how images have different meanings to the viewer depending on many factors and basically a image can mean something totally different to someone else (50). This reminds me of hand gestures like for example a thumbs up can mean something totally different to someone else's culture. Not only is our culture involved in us determining an images meaning but also mentions aesthetics and taste. Sometimes images are considered by some to be in good taste and some are not (56). If someone says that a piece of art is in bad taste, its all biased because we all have different tastes in art and different opinions. and to someone an ugly piece of art could be seen by someone else as a beautiful piece. The lava lamp is example of what was considered an ugly thing in Europe and considered a wonderful thing in America during the 60's (57).