Quiz 8

Question 1

Hegemony

Answer 1

Power relations in constant state of flux

Question 2

Habitus

Answer 2

Field exists before entry with rites of passage; individual assumes position within it (often unconsciously)

Question 3

Primitivism

Answer 3

cult and appropriation of tribal arts by modern artists

Question 4

Orientalism

Answer 4

exotic conceptions of east as European inventions

Question 5

Ekphrasis

Answer 5

(classical period) detailed description of works of art

Question 6

Theories

Answer 6

everyone operates on theories - ways to organize data.

Question 7

Exchange value

Answer 7

What something costs

Question 8

Use value

Answer 8

how useful/necessary something is

Question 9

Interpellate

Answer 9

address “you”

Question 10

Presumption of relevance

Answer 10

insinuates necessity

Question 11

pseudoindividuality

Answer 11

consumption will make you unique

Question 12

Equivalence

Answer 12

made between disparate things(woman-tiger)

Question 13

differentiate

Answer 13

can differ, separate.

Question 14

Commodity fetishism

Answer 14

separates goods from context of production for new meanings to be attached

Question 15

Reification

Answer 15

abstract ideas given concrete form

Question 16

Metacommunication

Answer 16

an exchange where topic is act of communication itself; reflexive

Question 17

Signifying practice

Answer 17

goal of producing meaning as well as object

Question 18

Auteur

Answer 18

idea of defining individual style vs. barthes’ “death of the author” with “birth of the reader” (production to reception emphasis shift)

Question 19

Resources

Answer 19

capital, facilities required for production

Question 20

Materials/tools

Answer 20

raw goods of production; artists/designers can work with or against materials.

Question 21

external

Answer 21

religion, political beliefs, etc.

Question 22

internal

Answer 22

functionalism, expressionism, etc.

Question 23

Distribution

Answer 23

packaging, shipping

Question 24

Circulation

Answer 24

through space and over time; can have many “lives”; changes in classification: transient/durable/rubbish

Question 25

exchange

Answer 25

bartered for goods or services, gifts, bought and sold for money

Question 26

post-industrial society or consumer society

Answer 26

emphasis put on consuming, not production

Question 27

Reception aesthetics

Answer 27

branch of criticism/history concerned with the impression art, design and media make how they are “read” by various individuals and social groups

Question 28

Taste

Answer 28

key variable in reception

Question 29

Preservation and conservation

Answer 29

everything has certain span, variable with degree of care

Question 30

Transient cultural objects

Answer 30

finite life; exchange value decreases over time

Question 31

Durable cultural objects

Answer 31

no finite span; exchange value can increase

Question 32

rubbish

Answer 32

zero value; no increase

Question 33

Social effects

Answer 33

effects of visual culture on society, affecting behavior and attitudes

Question 34

cycles and social change

Answer 34

millions of above cycle constantly happening, overlapping; repetition not exact, influenced by externals

Question 35

Bricolage

Answer 35

taking existing artifacts and recoding them for new subgroups meanings

Question 36

counter-bricolage

Answer 36

mass culture re-appropriating (co-opting) the bricolage