Quiz

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The Field of Visual Culture

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Pierre Bourdieu-- literary or artistic field is field of forces and field of struggles tending to transform or conserve same

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Hegemeony

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Power relations in a constant state of flux

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Habitus

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field exists before entry with rites of passage; individual assumes position within it (pierre bourdeau) "legitimate language"

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Post- Colonial theory

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European relinquished colonies, which became aware of their colonial/ imperial legacies

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Edward Said

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Concept of "the other" - center vs. periphery

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Hard

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Moderns, Europe, old world, masculine

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Soft

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Ancients, rest of world, New world, feminine

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Primitivism

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Cult and appropriation of tribal arts by modern artists

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Orientalism

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Exotic conceptions of East as European inventions

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Architectural History

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Traditionally, "mother" of the arts; shift from modernism to postmodernism

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Film/media/communication studies

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Visual culture includes all media but radio

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Cultural Studies

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Broader than visual culture, as it includes all the habits and customs of people

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Theory

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

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Language and Visual Culture

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Language is main medium of discussion

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Ekphrasis

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Detailed description of works of art

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Criticism

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a genre of writing that describes and evaluates particular examples of visual culture for the benefit of non-specialist readers

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Intrinsic difficulties

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complexity and subtlety of theory itself; sometimes willfully obscure

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Context and history

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visal vulture/ society-history, a "foreground/background" problem; sometimes difficult to see objects as reflective and independent of context

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Production

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Visual culture is part of cultural production, part of the capitalist production mode: a social, political & economic process

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Exchange value

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What something costs

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Use Value

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How useful/necessary something is

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Lack

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loss from separation of birth

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Pseudoindividuality

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consumption will make you unique

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Equivalence

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made between disparate things

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Commodity fetishism

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

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Reification

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Abstract ideas given concrete form

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Cultural producers

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All subgroups engaged in a signifying practice with a goal of producing meaning as well as an object

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Signifying practice

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a goal of producing meaning as well as an object

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Auteur

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Idea of defining individual style vs. Barthes

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Resources

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Capital, facilities required for production

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Aesthetic resources

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

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Circulation

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Through space and over time; can have many "lives"- changes in classification

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Transient cultural objects

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finite life; exchange value decreases over time

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Durable cultural objects

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No finite span; exchange value can increase

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rubbish

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zero value; no increase

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Social effects

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effects of visual culture on society, affecting behavior and attitudes

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Bricolage (appropriation)

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Taking existing artifacts and recording them for new subgroup meanings

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Counter-bricolage

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Mass culture reappropriating the bricolage