Critical Issues: Week 4 (Terms) Flashcards
Modernity: Spectatorship, The Gaze, and Power
Anamorphosis
A perspective technique that gives a distorted image in a picture when seen from the usual view point, but shows the complete non distorted image when viewed from a particular angle
Avant-garde
new and unusual or experimental ideas, especially in the arts, or the people introducing them.
Camera obscura
a darkened box with a convex lens or aperture for projecting the image of an external object onto a screen inside.
Cartesian space
A term that refers to the mathematical mapping of space. A Cartesian grid composes space through three axes, each intersecting each other at ninety degrees to make up three-dimensional space.
Empiricism
A method of scientific practice emphasizing the importance of sensory experience, observation, and measurement in the production of knowledge. relies on observation, experimentation, and data collec- tion to establish particular truths about things in the world.
Enlightenment (The)
An eighteenth-century cultural movement associated with a rejec- tion of religious and prescientific tradition through an embrace of the concept of reason. Enlightenment thinkers emphasized rationality and the idea of moral and social betterment through scientific progress. It is considered to be an important aspect of the rise of modernity.
episteme
The ideas and ways of ordering knowledge that are taken as true and accurate in a given era.
epistemology
The branch of philosophy concerned with knowledge and what can be known. To ask an epistemological question about something is to investigate what we can know about it and how we know it.
isometric
Isometric art is a drawing or illustration style that makes two-dimensional figures appear three dimensional.
perspective
the art of drawing solid objects on a two-dimensional surface so as to give the right impression of their height, width, depth, and position in relation to each other when viewed from a particular point.
point of view
the position from which something or someone is observed.
rationalism
a belief or theory that opinions and actions should be based on reason and knowledge rather than on religious belief or emotional response.
realism
the accurate, detailed, unembellished depiction of nature or of contemporary life.
Renaissance
The art of the Renaissance, which flourished in particular in Italy, emphasized both the technique of perspective and a fusion of science and art through such figures as Leonardo da Vinci, Sandro Botticelli, Michelangelo, and Raphael.
virtual
A virtual version of something is capable of functioning in a number of ways that simulate the experience of its actual physical or material counterpart. virtual space does not obey the rules of physical space.
