Quiz 10 Flashcards
Form and content
modes of analysis may tend to focus on one more than the other
Manifest content
what is shown; objects recognized by most - obvious or literal: - denotation
Latent content
attached secondary meanings: connotation
Denotational
what is shown
Connotational
how it is shown/what it means
Content analysis
quantitative analysis of date
Iconography
branch of art history which studies content (representation); descriptive and classificatory.
Iconology
“interpretive”; synthetic
Primary
or natural
Factual
what it is
expressional
how it is rendered
Secondary or conventional
what story is being shown; ‘stock characters
Intrinsic meaning or content
underlying principles which reveal basic attitudes of a nation, a period, a class, a religious or philosophical persuasion.
genre
french - species, kind or sort; in art, a classification or grouping of artworks that share certain iconographic elements, themes and stylistic conventions.
Semiotics
Study of signs within society; fashionable beginning in 1960s.
Signifier (Sr)
material dimension of sign
Signified (Sd)
conceptual dimension of sign
Syntagm
collection of signs in linear sequence (letters<word)
Paradigm
A set where each unit has something in common and is obviously different from the other units.
codes
analog and digital
analog
paradigm with no easily fixed number of units
digital
paradigm with fixed number of units
object
external reality
representamen (S/R)
material dimension of sign (signifier)
interpretant (signified)
not fixed; user of sign, user’s cultural experience of sign
index
record of; a direct, causal connection (footprint)
icon
resembles referent in some way (realist art; photo)
symbol
arbitrary, depends on convention - agreement on how we should respond to a sign (letters/numbers)
motivation
how much the signifier describes the signified: highly motivated - very iconic; least motivated - very symbolic.
Semiosis
act of signifying; not one-way, similar to apperception
unlimited semiosis
representamen gives interpretant, which “becomes” a representamen and triggers new interpretant; chain of associations (w/o fixed limits)
myth
connotations for subgroup made to look “universal;” ideology made to look natural (or denotational)
Linguistic message
text as caption
coded iconic message
connotational level
non-coded iconic message
image only
anchorage
text as controlling reading of image
relay
text supplying meanings not in images
structuralism
set of theories emphasizing the laws, codes rules, formulas and conventions structuring human behavior and systems of meaning
deconstruction
philosophical and literary term associated with Jacques Derrida and Jean-Francois Lyotard - criticized structuralism for overemphasizing structure at expense of elements that don’t fit formulas
Undecidability
stresses indeterminacy rather than closure; draws attention to framing devices (inside contaminated by outside)
physical context
method stressing specific location as determinant of otherwise polysemic (method meanings) object or work
Intertextuality
analysis relying on references to other works in the discipline; may highlight transformations (contaminations) as images mutate through borrowings.
hermeneutics
interpreting texts and works of art
Undecidability
impossibility of deciding between competing interpretations
dissemination(fragmentation)
a new way of considering fragments not as from an original centered whole, but as constituents of a larger, but never completely graspable, entity.
grand narratives
follow teleological progression towards equality and justice
little narratives
local explanations of individual events or phenomena
decentering
challenges the logo-centric
simulation
postmodern blurs classic distinction between “real” and “copy;” hyperreal - reality is fabricated by technology
