Fool for Love (1987)

Playwright: Sam Shepard Director: Joseph Chistensen Academic Year: 1986-1987https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/productions_1980s/1061/thumbnail.jp

Introducing Islam [Book Review]

This article reviews the book “Introducing Islam”, by William Shepard

Buried Child (1985)

Playwright: Sam Shepard Director: Jeff Richards Set Design: Roy Harline Costumes: Audrey Walker Academic Year: 1985-1986https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/productions_1980s/1039/thumbnail.jp

True West (1986)

Playwright: Sam Shepard Director: Jeff Richards Set Design: Matt Gordon Costumes: Eliza Chugg Academic Year: 1985-1986https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/productions_1980s/1057/thumbnail.jp

The Investigation of Identity Construction: a Foucauldian Reading of Sam Shepard's Buried Child

Shepard is peculiarly powerful in his symbolic family problem plays: True West, Buried Child and Curse of the Starving Class. He allegorizes the American experience and undermines the myth of America as the New Eden. The present study seeks to critically explore Sam Shepard's Buried Child in terms of Foucauldian conception of identity construction. Shepard is depicting a dystopian world with its bewildered characters; however he has still got a romantic view of individuals trying to grapple with the society in order to get unity and order. This Shephardian attitude towards human beings is seemingly a free agent that overlaps the Foucauldian view which establishes a philosophy focusing on the relationship between the self and the society. The present essay attempts to demonstrate the complicated relationship between the self and the opposing forces

Karya Seni Poster Shepard Fairey dalam Kajian Semiotika Van Zoest : Analisis Sintaksis, Simantik dan Pragmatik

Posters are not only a media for publication and promotion, more than that, posters can be a medium of expression to express the aesthetic and ideological experiences of their creators. Shepard Fairey is a poster artist who is well known in the contemporary art world, especially street art. Shepard Fairey's works display ideas that are full of political and propaganda content. Shepard Fairey's posters feature many themes of peace, anti-war, gender issues, and themes of social criticism. The purpose of this study was to find the symbolic meaning contained in one of Shepard Fairey's works entitled "Guns and Roses". Fairey's work is interesting to study because it contains contents of social criticism and political propaganda which are currently attracting the world's attention. The study of Shepard Fairey's work was carried out using qualitative methods with Van Zoest's semiotic approach, namely syntactic, simantic, and pragmatic analysis approaches. The results of this study indicate that Shepard Fairey's poster entitled “Guns and Roses” contains political content that displays a lot of propaganda narratives. The icons and colors displayed in the posters contain a sign system correlation that is related to each other. Visually, Shepard Fairey's poster also has its own charm, both from the choice of colors, image icons, and the visual elements that make it up to have a distinctive character.Poster tidak hanya sebagai media publikasi dan  promosi semata, lebih dari itu poster dapat menjadi media berekspresi untuk mengungkapkan pengalaman estetis dan ideologi dari penciptanya. Shepard Fairey merupakan salah satu seniman poster yang cukup dikenal di dunia seni rupa kontemporer khususnya street art. Karya-karya Shepard Fairey menampilkan gagasan-gagasan yang sarat dengan muatan politik dan propaganda. Karya poster Shepard Fairey banyak menampilkan tema perdamaian, anti perang, isu gender, dan tema bernuasa kritik sosial. Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk mencari makna simbolis yang terdapat pada salah satu karya Shepard Fairey yang berjudul “Guns and Roses”. Karya Fairey menarik untuk dikaji karena mengandung muatan-muatan kritik sosial dan propaganda politik yang saat ini sedang menjadi perhatian dunia. Pengkajian karya Shepard Fairey dilakukan dengan menggunakan metode kualitatif dengan pendekatan semiotika Van Zoest, yaitu pendekatan analisis sintaksis, simantik, dan pragmatik. Hasil dari penelitian ini menunjukan bahwa karya poster Shepard Fairey yang berjudul “Guns and Roses” mengandung muatan politis yang banyak menampilkan narasi-narasi propaganda. Ikon serta warna yang ditampilkan dalam poster mengandung korelasi sistem tanda yang saling berkaitan satu sama lain. Secara visual karya poster Shepard Fairey juga memiliki daya Tarik tersendiri, baik dari pemilihan warna, ikon gambar, serta unsur-unsur visual pembentuknya memiliki kharakter yang khas