ARTH 101 Final Exam Flashcards
What is Peter Galison’s arguement? (Picturing science)
- reliance on/use of images vs their rejection in pedagogy and epistemology
- specific vs abstract; intuitive vs logical
- what scientific truth is; can the truth be visualized
- pattern recognition often relies on images and visualization
- suggestion that physics always wins between images and data
the great buddha at bamiyan (study image)
- islamic iconoclasm
- destruction to destroy images of another religion
- claimed to be based in the religious belief that we should not have images
- actually instrumental and meant to send a message to the west about iconography and the value of the images
rokeby venus by diego velazquez (study image)
- attacked by mary richardson protesting the arrest of her fellow activists
- attack on the most beautiful woman while the most beautiful characters are imprisoned
- expressive iconography
cosmography
descriptions or drawings of the universe
ex. Stickman Universe
stick man universe (study image)
- example of the oscillation between images and data
- both are needed to inform the other
tiananmen square (study image)
- function for communication between the public and leaders
- located between the great hall of the people (present), natural history museum (past), mao mausoleum (past), and the gate of heavenly peace (present)
idolatry/iconography
the worship of images
what makes a monument
commemoration, embodying values, historical narrative, size
victory through honour pole (study image)
- history of vandalism and restoration
- emphasis on communication between nations, relationship to the university and storytelling
lenin monument (study image)
- no more socialism, no more lenin
- monument was buried, head was excavated and put on display
- commentary on how the past cant be ignored
-(no more violence sign)
expressive iconoclasm
Desire to express one’s own belief / vent feelings through iconoclasm
Instrumental Iconoclasm
Iconoclasm to reach an ultimate goal
aniconism
Rule/law against images
not destroying an image but not showing a specific figure
Example: Wheel of law -> not showing Buddha
the ambassadors (study image)
- includes a terrestrial globe to represent the cultures and knowledge available to the men
- representative of the state of the world in europe
terrestrial globe (study image)
- a response to voyages into unknown parts of the world
- used in territorial disputes to claim authority across distant areas
- related to trade and colonialism
- made use of text on early globes and maps
native hosts by edgar heap of birds (study image)
- concepts of the host and the guest
- recognizes that you are a guest on stolen land
- communicated through the authority of a sign
iconoclasm
destroying icons, images
goddess of democracy (study image)
- created by student protesters
- protests began after the death of head of state
- temporary monument erected for 5 days
monument to the peoples heros (study image)
- carved with stele, pictoral stories and important texts
- represents the creation of the people republic, inscribed are instances of protest
double diamond by eric heller (study image)
- visualizes data to make patterns visible
- has the ability to advance scientific knowledge
beau dick
- cultural practices as a form of resistance
- should meaning be withheld to preserve cultural specificity
mass of st gregory (study image)
- eyes scratched out of religious figures
- depicts the witnessing of a miracle, the eyes are removed as if to say there is no miracle
- a rejection of christ and religion
princely feast (study image)
- iconoclasm trageting the eyes, faces, or heads of a figure as if to decapitate
- changes the image, not totally destroys
comparison of specimen and drawings (study image)
- between observation and visualization, what is emphasized, what is clarified , what is made invisible
- do existing assumptions about the structure and function of neurons have an impact on how they are visualized
images of human skeletons (study image)
- the body can be visualized differently for different purposes
- boney skeletion includes setting emotion, distinctly human
- position of the bones is meant for medicine, includes labels
photograph of earth 1972 (study image)
- different from globes or maps
- doesnt reveal geometric patterns, measurements, or clear distinctions beween land, water, nation states
chorography
- visual representations of the local or regional
- emphasis on capturing essence and characteristics rather than the actual look of the land
surrendered regalia from the 1921 potlach (study image)
- potlach ban restricted cultural practice in indigenous communities
- giving ceremony to demonstrate and redistribute wealth
Tradition assumptions of Islamic Iconoclasm
- a product of a specific theological attitude, with only secondary political and no aesthetic content.
- directed at non-Muslim “other” (religion)
- discussion of this topic is often confined to text (barely have surviving objects)
Examples of iconoclasm
defacing of Mao’s portrait; topping the Goddess of Democracy
Epistemology
history/theory of knowledge
image economy
bombardment of images in everyday life, the centrality of images. Everything is percept through images.
Social media platforms, billboards, magazines, newspapers before social media
Geography
description of the earth
