Visual literacy quiz 8

habitus

field exists before entry with rites of passage; individual assumes position within it; “legitimate language”

orientalism

exotic conceptions of East as European inventions

postmodern era of electronic technology

computer/digital imaging; image has value from accessibility, malleability and information status

exchange value

what something costs

pseudoindividuality

consumption will make you unique

commodity fetishism

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

reification

abstract ideas given concrete form

bricolage

taking existing artifacts and recoding them for new subgroup meanings (appropriation)

reception aesthetic

branch of criticism/history
concerned with the impression art, design and media
make and how they are “read” by various individuals
and social groups; taste: key variable in reception

“death of the author”

production to reception emphasis shift