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ARTH 101 Final Exam Flashcards

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What is Peter Galison’s arguement? (Picturing science)

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  • 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
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the great buddha at bamiyan (study image)

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  • 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
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rokeby venus by diego velazquez (study image)

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  • 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
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cosmography

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descriptions or drawings of the universe
ex. Stickman Universe

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stick man universe (study image)

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  • example of the oscillation between images and data
  • both are needed to inform the other
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tiananmen square (study image)

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  • 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)
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idolatry/iconography

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the worship of images

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what makes a monument

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commemoration, embodying values, historical narrative, size

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victory through honour pole (study image)

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  • history of vandalism and restoration
  • emphasis on communication between nations, relationship to the university and storytelling
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lenin monument (study image)

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  • 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)
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expressive iconoclasm

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Desire to express one’s own belief / vent feelings through iconoclasm

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Instrumental Iconoclasm

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Iconoclasm to reach an ultimate goal

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aniconism

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Rule/law against images
not destroying an image but not showing a specific figure
Example: Wheel of law -> not showing Buddha

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the ambassadors (study image)

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  • includes a terrestrial globe to represent the cultures and knowledge available to the men
  • representative of the state of the world in europe
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terrestrial globe (study image)

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  • 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
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native hosts by edgar heap of birds (study image)

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  • concepts of the host and the guest
  • recognizes that you are a guest on stolen land
  • communicated through the authority of a sign
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iconoclasm

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destroying icons, images

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goddess of democracy (study image)

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  • created by student protesters
  • protests began after the death of head of state
  • temporary monument erected for 5 days
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monument to the peoples heros (study image)

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  • carved with stele, pictoral stories and important texts
  • represents the creation of the people republic, inscribed are instances of protest
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double diamond by eric heller (study image)

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  • visualizes data to make patterns visible
  • has the ability to advance scientific knowledge
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beau dick

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  • cultural practices as a form of resistance
  • should meaning be withheld to preserve cultural specificity
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mass of st gregory (study image)

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  • 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
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princely feast (study image)

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  • iconoclasm trageting the eyes, faces, or heads of a figure as if to decapitate
  • changes the image, not totally destroys
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comparison of specimen and drawings (study image)

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  • 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
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images of human skeletons (study image)

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  • 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
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photograph of earth 1972 (study image)

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  • different from globes or maps
  • doesnt reveal geometric patterns, measurements, or clear distinctions beween land, water, nation states
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chorography

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  • visual representations of the local or regional
  • emphasis on capturing essence and characteristics rather than the actual look of the land
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surrendered regalia from the 1921 potlach (study image)

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  • potlach ban restricted cultural practice in indigenous communities
  • giving ceremony to demonstrate and redistribute wealth
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Tradition assumptions of Islamic Iconoclasm

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  • 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)
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Examples of iconoclasm

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defacing of Mao’s portrait; topping the Goddess of Democracy

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Epistemology

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history/theory of knowledge

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image economy

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bombardment of images in everyday life, the centrality of images. Everything is percept through images.
Social media platforms, billboards, magazines, newspapers before social media

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Geography

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description of the earth

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