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Quiz 2 Flashcards

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Appropriation

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The act of borrowing, stealing, or taking over someone else’s work and using it for one’s own end. It can alter the meaning of the work by changing the context

Example:

Guerilla campaign, numerous posters to comment on atrocities committed by U.S soldiers in the Abu Ghraib prision

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Marcel Duchamp

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Signed a urinal and titled it “fountain” and contributed it to an art exhibit

Example:

Marcel Duchamp, Bicycle wheel

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Readymades

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Ordinary manufactured objects that the artist selected and modified, simply by choosing the object and re-positioning or joining, tilting, or signing it, where the found object became art

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Marcel Duchamp, Bicycle Wheel

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Identify and Artist and Give Example

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Gran Fury and Read my Lips

Appropriated slogan from George H.W Bush’s campaign which was read my lips with no new taxes, and used it to accuse the president who was overly homophobic and lead a public denial against the serious consequences of AIDS

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Diana Thorneycroft - Groupd of Seven Awkward Moments; Canadian Martyrdom Series

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Depicts plastic figurines in comedic, yet dramatic situations; staged in from of reproductions of the paintings by group of Seven

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Algonquin Park: Depicted children sticking their tongues to poles

Northern Lights by Tom Tomsen: Igloo surrounded by wolves featuring an RCMP officer watching and not taking actioin

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Past reproducibility of art

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Works of art have always been reproducible.

  1. Greeks: founding and stamping
    - woodcut (etching and engraving)
    - Lithography (tracing a design onto stone)
    - Photography (first type of pictorial reproduction)
    - Film

Stereoscope - instrument used in 19th century, that had 2 separate views on the same scene arranged to replicate the positioning of the two eyes and then optically converged to simulate depth

Kinescope - Recording television program on motion picture film, directly through a lens focused on the screen of a video monitor

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Ronald Barthes, Camera Lucida

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Photographs that conveys something that has been. Existed co-present with the camera, and is indexical and relationship with the real

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Ronald Barthes - Noeme

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Unique quality of the guaranteee something has been because of mediums requirement of being co-present, sharing space and light with object represented

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Camera Work

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Published by Alfred Stieglitz. Journal that features work of important photographers around the world and promoting photography as an art form

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Walter Benjamin and the Work of Art in the age of mechanical Reproduction

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Marxist literacy critic with essay “The work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction” who examined the connection between art and technology.

Theory that aura is a strange web of space and time or a distance as close as it can be, and is associated with the traditional nostalgic notions of artwork and is lost with onset of photography

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Edwaeard Muybridge

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Photographer who explored the depiction of motion. Leland Standford asked him to use his motion studies to settle a bet

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Louis J.M Daguerre

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Invented the Daguerreotype which is a direct positive image, without a negative from which multiple prints could be made

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Aura

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associated with traditional notions of artwork and is lost with the onset of photography

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Authenticity

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The quality of being genuine or original, according to Benjamin, the aura of work of art, gives it the authenticity, the quality that cannot be reproduced

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Authority

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Confronted with its manual reproduction, the original preserved all its authority

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Politics of Reproducibility

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Benjamin argued that the result of mechanical production was a change in the function of art. He stated that instead of being based on ritual, art images become based on another practice - politics. Reproduction allowed images to circulate and images can be in multiple places at one

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John Berger, Ways of seeing

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Believed that modern means of images destroyed the authority of art.

Modern means of production have destroyed the authority of art “for the first time ever, images of art have become ephemeral, ubiquitous, insustantial, available, valueless, free.

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Modernity

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Associated with belief that industrialisation, human technological intervention in nature and mass democracy are integral to progress

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Le Corbusier, Villa Savoye 1928/9, Poissy, France

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Flaneur

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A person who wanders city streets, taking in sights of consumer society in the era of industrialization and modernity

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Art Deco

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An ornate style of modernism that evokes a machine aesthetic Originally conceived as art moderne

Example:
Chrysler Building, New York, 1930

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Futurism

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Italian avante garde movement inspired by Filipo Tomasso Marinetti’s Futurist manifesto from 1909. Interested in breaking free of tradition and embraced speed and the future

Example: Umberto Boccioni, Dynamism of a Cyclist, 1914

Umberto Boccioni, Unique Forms of Continuity and Space, 1913

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Constructivism

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Art movement in the Soviet union following the 1917 Russian Revolution that emphasized dynamic form and line as the embodiment of politics and a machine driven culture

Example: Vladimir Tatlin, Monument to the 3rd international, 1919-1920

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Spectatorship

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The practice of looking

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Mirror Stage

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Stage of development, in which the infant first experiences a sense of alienations in its realization of its separate-ness form other human beings. B

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Las Meninas

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Diego Velasquez, Las Meninas, 1656.

Positions the spectator ambiguously. At the center of the composition is the daughter. Focus light and attention onto her….

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The Gaze

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Term to describe the relationship of looking in which the subject is caught up in dynamics of desire through trajectories of looking and being looked among other objects,

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Michel Foucault

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Significance of Las Meninas

French philosopher who argued the human subject is constituted through the discourses of institutional life of the period

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Discourse

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group of statements that provide meaning for talking about

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Economics, Law, Medicine, Politics

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Colonialism

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The establishment of a colony in one territory by a political power from another territory and the subsequence expansion, maintenance, and exploitation of that colony

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Postcolonialism

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Refers to the cultural and social contexts of countries that were previously defined through relationships of colonialism and the contemporary mix of cultures in former colonies.

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Orientalism

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Ways of seeing that imagines, and distorts differences of arab peoples vs cultures of europe and north america

Orientalism: country with power

Occidentalism: Exotic or the other

  • Occidentalism often sees Arab culture as exotic, backward, uncivilized and at times, dangerous
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Jacques Lacan and the Mirror Stage

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French psychoanalyst who believes that the subject was radically split at the very time it comes into being. He believes the subject becomes aware of itself during a period of self-awareness and apparent autonomy that typically begins at the ages of six and 18 months. Referring to it as the mirror stage.

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Scopohilia

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The Drive to look and the general pleasure in looking. Important in pschoanalytic film theory in its emphasis on the pleasure/desire of looking

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Voyeurism

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The pleasure in watching without being seen, the active form of scopophilia. Examplified by spectators in the cinema, and has been associated with the masculine spectator

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Laura Mulvey

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Wrote an essay “visual pleasure and narrative cinema” about images of women in classical hollywood cinema, published in 1975

Used psychoanalysis to propose that the conventions of popular narrative cinema put the spectator in a masculine subject position, with the figure of the woman on screen as the object of desire of “the male gaze”

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Feminism

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Range of political movements, ideologies, and social movements that share the common goal to define, establish, and achieve political, economic and all these other rights for women lamo

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Examples of Feminist art

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  1. Judy Chicago, The Dinner party, 1974-75

- 39 elaborate place settings arranged along a trangular table for 39 mythical and historical famous women

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Psychoanalysis

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Set of psychological and psychotherapeutic theories and associated techniques created by Austrian physician Sigmund Freud

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Sigmund Freud

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Austrian physician who invented psychoanalysis and psychotherapy

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Simulation

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Refers to sign that does not clearly have a real-life counterpart, referent or precedent q

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Simulacrum

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Is not necessarily a representation of something else, and it may actually precede the real thing it simulates in the real world

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Hyperreal

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A term coined by French theorist Jean Baudrillard that refers to a world in which codes of reality are used to simulate reality in cases where no referent exists in the real world

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Metacommunication

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A discussion or exchange in which the topic is the exchange taking place itself

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Metanarrative

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Framework that aims to comprehensively explain all the aspects of a society or wold

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Religion, Science, Marxism, psychoanalysis

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Postmodernism

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Began from scrutiny of modernism

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Reflexivity

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The practice of making viewers aware of the material and technical means of production by featuring those aspects as the content of cultural production

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Postmodern Architecture

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Took past components of different styles and melded them together to create new means of design, known for re-emergence of surface ornament, reference to its surrounding buildings and historical references

Example:

John Burgee and Philip Johnson, Banke of America Center, Houston, 1983

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Postmodern art

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…

Examples:

David Salle, Mr. Lucky, 1998

Andy Warhold, Campbell’s soup cans, 1962

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