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Define: Pastiche
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Mimics other styles (like parody)--> appropriation
Jameson- pastiche = "blank parody that has lost it's sense of humor" Lacks the assurance that some sort of normal exists in the first place. |
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Define: Sign/Signifier/Signified
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Sign: The whole that results from the association of the signifier with the signified.
Signifier: The material/aesthetic form the sign takes Signified: the concept the sign represents |
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One main point of Bryson text?
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IDENTITY = dessentialized
Fixed identity = now obsolete in post modernism |
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Main point from Mulvey text?
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Cindy Sherman - shows contradictions between interior and exterior body
Uses parody (pastiche?) to criticize female beauty and elegance in homogenized mass media |
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Define Schizophrenia in post-modern art
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Refers to a temporal break-down
Signifiers do not connect, no coherent sequence No sense of time exists-only the present, surface. Surface = meaning |
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Define: The Uncanny
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Something beyond familiar understanding that we are both attracted to and repulsed by but ultimately reject
Can often be caused by size extremes (small or large) Disorientation/disruption in perception; renders familiar strange |
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Key points for Buchloh text?
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RICHTER:
Created a painted ready-made (a painted photograph)--> Ready-made = mode of perception that mechanically captures qualities of surfaces within a given time |
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Define: The Lacanian Real
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Beyond language, symbolization, human comprehension
The real is that which threatens what we normally call the real Traumatic, cannot be integrated or explained Real = part of ourselves that remains beyond ourselves |
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Define: The Screen
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= different way of saying "culture"
Mediates spectator's gaze, shields it from the real The fact that it exists points to the real |
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Define: The Gaze
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Idea that culture also looks back at YOU and defines who you are- it is a RECIPROCAL way of seeing
About power, the real looking back at you |
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What does Jameson discuss in his article?
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PASTICHE
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