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READING VISUAL FINAL EXAM Flashcards

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Which statement best describes how memes and intertextuality are related?

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Memes are made from crossing different arts.

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What transforms what we have captured into recognizable objects?

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Photoreceptors

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In 1976, who defined “meme” as an idea, behavior, style, or usage that spreads like a virus from person to person in a culture?

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Richard Dawkins

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Who argued that the mere awareness of mental process is enough to justify reality?

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Descartes

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How do we qualify text?

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As long as it uses signs and symbols.

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How does Plato describe our visions of reality?

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Allegory of the Cave

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Identify the Philosopher who said: “seeing is an activity that is ultimately derived from touching”

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Freud

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This refers to making sense of texts by reference to other texts, or to meaning that already been made in other texts.

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Intertextuality

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What is the interdisciplinary field that has a close link to the humanities and social science?

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Semiotics

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How do we categorize art pieces through characteristics and narratives?

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Genres

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Which statement best describes Visual Arts?

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Manmade things appreciated through seeing.

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What is the awareness of the signs and symbols that surrounds us, and the ability to analyze, evaluate, and understand what is being seen?

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Seeing as Reading

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Which statement best defines “Aesthetics”?

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The ideals and standards of beauty.

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How is Art related to mimesis?

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Art is the imitation of Nature

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15
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Which part of our eye focuses on the image?

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Retina

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What is the term for our set of value and dispositions from our cultural history that stay with us across contexts.

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Habitus

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17
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Which part of our brain is responsible to our blind spot?

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Macula

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Whose idea is the theory of extramission?

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Plato

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A technique of reading which is an act of seeing and “not seeing”.

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Selection and Omission

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Who argued that objectivity can only be achieved through observation?

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Bacon

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It is a group of signs being read or threatened as a text when someone considers all signs as a unit.

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Text

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He defined the human voice as semantikospsophos, significant sound, or sounds that make meanings.

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ARISTOTLE

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During the start of the pandemic, media has emphasized that the virus came from China. Because of this, hate against the Chinese and Asian Community has spread like wildfire bringing danger to their lives. What does this exemplify?

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SIGN OF DIFFERENCES

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It refers to the way the state, through different institutions and policies, intervene and attempt to manage the lives and activities of its people.

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REASON OF STATE

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A historian who argues that the advent and development of the set of discourses, ideas, perspectives and practices that we term normalization were tied up with the Foucauldian insight that populations were and still are seen by the field of power, which includes but is not limited to the state and its various institutions, as potential resources.

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JONATHAN CRARY

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26
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Which of these elements of arts defines ____ Anything to do with its production that is not associated with its meaning.

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FORM

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_______ defines as a tower placed in a central position within the prison.

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PANOPTICON

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28
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TRUE OR FALSE. Dance, film and theatre are highly visual, and even music, the most abstract of the arts, is frequently associated with visual imagery.

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TRUE

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29
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He suggests that art is a language of grace which seems to exist in a world of its own, beyond the reach of discourse. It not only is hard to talk about; it seems unnecessary to do so. It speaks, as we say, for itself.

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CLIFFORD GEERTZ

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While a landscape may be staggeringly beautiful, or terrifying in a sublime way, it is not art, not, that is unless transformed by an artist into a painting or photograph or other art form.

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ARTIFICIALIZED

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This refers to the way in which we make sense of texts on the basis of other texts with which we are familiar.

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INTERTEXTUALITY

32
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The painting Mona Lisa has been transformed into different forms. Because of this, BLANK is stripped out from the original artwork.

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AURA

33
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Bourdieu uses this term quite specifically, meaning everything that is done, and everyone involved in doing it, within a discrete area of social practice.

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FIELD

34
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_______ is the process whereby a particular field or group of fields manages to export its ways of seeing to most fields.

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VISUAL REGIME

35
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This effect of the original work means that art has what is called a fetish quality. A fetish is an object which seems alienated and abstracted from the everyday material world and which therefore holds a connection to the mystery of truth.

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ARTISTIC FETISH

36
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Bourdieu says popular culture follows a heteronomous logic since its usually made for _____.

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COMMERCIAL REASON

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TRUE OR FALSE. This is produced in accordance with a heteronomous logic, because it is usually made for commercial reason, and is designed to be as accessible as possible. Consequently, it attracts a mass audience, and presents characters, images or situations with which it is assumed they can easily identify.

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FALSE

38
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Visual culture such as paintings which contain narratives that are interpreted and are not arranged chronologically are considered to have…

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NARRATIVE POTENTIAL

39
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Rose uses whitening lotions and avoids the sun because she thinks dark skin is.

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SELF-SURVEILLANCE

40
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This refers to making sense of texts by reference to other texts, or to meaning that already been made in other texts.

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INTERTEXTUALITY

41
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Whenever Linda sees advertisements of new make up items, she immediately buys them. She believes that it is necessary for her to keep up with the trend. What does Linda exemplify?

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ORDER OF LACK

42
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They have a trained eyes to look closely and patiently, to absorb the work with their eyes, and make out its various elements. Values and qualities.

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ART HISTORIAN

43
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How does Plato describe our visions of reality?

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ALLEGORY OF THE CAVE

44
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Bourdieu’s definition of art is divided between

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AUTONOMY AND HETERONOMY

45
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An analytical approach that is semiotic at some levels: it involves identifying signs and analyzing how they come together to make up a text within its contexts.

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PICTORIAL TURN

46
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It relies on verbal language-outside of films and videos, comic strips and graphic novels, which can be defined as open-ended dramatic narrative about a recurring set of characters, told in a series of drawings, often including dialogue in balloons and narrative text.

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VISUAL TEXT

47
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He mentioned that our ability to is similar to our ability to speak. It is said that we are not born with the knowledge of how to see, any more than we are born with a knowledge of how to speak.

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BATES LOWRY

48
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How does our habitus affect our reading of visual art?

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IT IS HEAVILY LINKED TO HOW WE SEE ART.

49
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In earlier periods this means anything people did that required skills.

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ART

50
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He agrees that time itself is indispensable to both story and text. He says that if you eliminate time, if this were possible, you will also eliminate all narrative fiction.

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KENAN

51
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How do we categorize art pieces through characteristics and narratives?

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GENRES

52
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It is also often applied to specifically artistic practices and objects as when someone refers to a cultured person who prefers to spend time at the opera than the football, for instance.

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CULTURE

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He is perhaps the earliest writer on aesthetics; his notion was that reality consists of archetypes called ideal forms, which are the models for all the objects in the social world.

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PLATO

54
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____involves the construction of idealized norm of conduct.

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NORMALIZATION

55
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Maria paints portraits and sells it to art collectors. This is considered ________.

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HETERONOMOUS ART

56
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This word itself is etymologically related to artificial, or produced by human beings.

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ART

57
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It refers to the situational where a thing or person is viewed predominantly in terms of its exchange value.

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COMMODITIZATION

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_____refers to the forms of knowledge, techniques, mechanisms and operations that were developed for analyzing, defining, controlling and regulating behavior.

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BIOPOWER

59
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This is more sociological than aesthetic; in which Raymond Williams calls the whole life of a society, and includes everything we do as collectives of human beings. Intellectual and spiritual as well as aesthetic mores, tangible and intangible expressions of a community.

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CULTURE

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It is a concept central to many understandings of how society is organized, how communication takes place, and how power relations are instituted and maintained.

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SPECTACLE

61
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Which among the following can be used to produce politics of affect?

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NONE OF THE ABOVE

62
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He argues, pictures or visual images are not like language because they are not made of semiotic marks, or signs that relate to each other on the basis of a structured relation of difference.

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ELKINS

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He argues that art can be understood as comprising a cultural field, which he calls the field of cultural production.

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BOURDIEU

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Sely identified with the discipline of aesthetics, associated sound understanding with judgement in The Critique of Judgement 1790; in his estimate, the ability to judge works of art is dependent upon clarity of thought and knowledge, and not on the emotions.

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IMMANUEL KANT

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Politics of affect is best defined as

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PRODUCTION AND REDUCTION OF EVENTS IN TERMS OF EMOTIONAL REACTION

66
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It is a disorder wherein physical symptoms are present but have no illness or disease to explain it.

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HYSTERIC CONVERSION

67
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A technique of reading which is an act of seeing and “not seeing”

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SELECTION AND OMISSION

68
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He argues that the way in which visual objects are produced and displayed, and what counts as beautiful or as valuable, tell us a great deal about what that society values, what sort of meanings or stories are dominant, and who has power in the community.

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STUART HALL

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After the pre-modern period, signs have become available everybody instead of only belonging to certain groups of elites, what was the reason for this?

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FEUDAL/RANKS HAVE BEEN ABOLISHED

70
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TRUE OR FALSE. Art does not have a cultural value than advertisements have, which advertisements a long, slow glaze, while looking art is just a mere sweeping glance only.

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FALSE

71
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How is Art related to mimesis?

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ART IS THE IMITATION OF NATURE.

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