Visual literacy quiz 8

Hegemony

Power relations in constant state of flux

Habitus

Field exists before entry with rites of passage

Primitivism

Cult and appropriation of tribal arts by modern artists

orientalism

Exotic conceptions of east as European inventions

Theory

A coherent group of general propositions used as principles of explanation for a class of phenomenon

Ekphrasis

classical period, detailed description of works of art

production

a social, political, and economic process

ancient art prior to perspective

role in ritual and cult value because it’s one-of-a-kind

exchange value

what something costs

Use value

How useful/ necessary something is

“Lack”

Loss from separation at birth

Commodity fetishism

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

reification

abstract ideas given concrete form

Signifying practice

a goal of producing meaning as well as an object

external ideological resources

religion,political beliefs, gender/sexual preference issues

Internal ideological resources

functionalism,expressionism,minimalism

aesthetic resources

enormous bank of object types, images, symbols, techniques and styles accumulated over centuries; appropriation issues

Post-industrial society

Emphasis put on consumption,not production

reception aesthetics

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

transient cultural objects

finite life; exchange value decreases over time

Durable cultural objects

No finite span; exchange value can increase

Rubbish

Zero value; no increase

Bricolage

talking existing artifacts and recording them for new subgroup meanings

counter-bricolage

mass culture re-appropriation the bricolage