In his article, Hovagimyan discusses Post Media, which is defined through several different mediums of media including Television, Telephones, photography, and several other methods. However, he notes several characteristics of photography that show how it is Post Media. He notes that photographs can be altered through means such as lighting, or the ability to hide reality through film, by means of what appears to be cinematography. He also discusses how, although he does not agree, mass production takes away from the artistic medium. However, the point Hovagimyan appears to be making is that Post Media is defined through change, but more specifically technology. With an increasingly more tech-involved society, media and art are becoming harder and harder to define, it's probably not definable all together, because each different form of media has unique characteristics that allow the user to have limitless opportunity.
With that said, art before the invention of the photograph is no different. For one, many artists from all over the world pursued to make religious influenced scenes, and although many of them appear to capture reality, there is an enormous amount of symbolism. Within that there are also several different ways in which the symbols were represented. Sometimes it's through the production of the art itself, and other times it is actual symbols within the painting. For example during the Dutch Golden Age of Painting there were symbols of all kinds, including death, fertility, adultery, and many more. The idea of symbolism, allowed artists to create anything their imagination could process, which in effect allowed art to change over the centuries, perhaps not at the pace technology allows, but enough to consider it a part of G.H. Hovagimyan's definition of Post Media.
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