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Visual Culture Q10
Visual Culture Quiz 10 material
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| form and content | modes of analysis may tend to focus on one more than the other |
| manifest content | what is shown; objects recognized by most |
| latent content | attached secondary meanings |
| mythologies | Roland Barthes' decoding essays |
| denotational | what is shown |
| connotational | how it is shown/what it means |
| content analysis | quantitative analysis of data- count number of certain |
| iconography | Erwin Panofsky; branch of art history which studies content |
| iconology | interpretive; synthetic |
| panofsky's 3 levels of content | primary or natural; factual- what it is | expressional- how it is rendered secondary or conventional; what story is being shown intrinsic meaning or content; underlying prinicples which reveal basic attitude of nation, a period, a class, a religion |
| genre | a classification or grouping of artworks that share certain iconopgrahic elements, themes and stylistic conventions |
| semiotics | study of signs within society; fashionable beginning in 1960s |
| referent | what is stands for; can be real or imaginary |
| ferdinand de saussure | all that is necessary for any language to exist is an agreement that one thing will stand for another |
| costituent parts of a sign | signifier; material dimension of sign signified; conceptual dimension of sign |
| syntagm | collection of signs in linear sequence |
| paradigm | set where each unit has something in common and is obviously different from the other units |
| codes | analog; paradigm with no easily fixed number of units digital; paradigm with fixed number of units |
| triangular model of sign | charles s. pierce; object, representamen, interpretant |
| types of signs | index- record of; direct, causal connection icon- resembles referent in some way symbol- arbitrary, depends on convention |
| motivation | how much the signifier describes the signified |
| semiosis | act of signifying; not one-way |
| unlimited semiosis | representamen gives interpretant, which becomes a representamen and triggers new interpretant |
| myth | connotations for subgroup made to look universal; ideology made to look natural |
| linguistic message | text as caption |
| coded iconic message | connotation level |
| non-coded iconic message | image only |
| anchorage | text as controlling reading of image |
| relay | text supplying meanings not in images |
| structuralism | set of theories emphasizing the laws, codes rules, formulas and conventions structuring human behavior and systems of meaning |
| levi strauss | structural anthropologist; studies human culture & social behavior, sign systems & myths to analyze surface & deep structures |
| deconstruction | criticized structuralism for overemphasizing structure at expense of elements that don't fit formulas |
| undecidability | stresses indeterminacy rather than closure; draws attention to framing devices |
| physical context | method stressing specific location as determinant of otherwise polysemic object or work |
| intertextuality | analysis relying on references to other works in the discipline |
| hermeneutics | interpreting texts and works of art; meaning & significance of art, internal relations within a work, artists intended meaning/viewer interpretations, stability of meanings, interpretations across time and culture |
| undecidability | impossibility of deciding between competing interpretations |
| dissemination (fragmentation) | new way of considering fragments not as from an original centered whole, but as constituents of a larger, but never completely graspable, entity |
| grand narratives | follow teleological progression towards equality and justice |
| little narratives | local explanations of individual events or phenomena that don't attempt to explain everything |
| decentering | challenges the logo-centric |
| simulation | postmodern blurs classic distinction between real and copy |
| form | color, shape, value, lighting; what things look like |
| style | handling, manner of expression; how something is said rather than what is said |
| controversial style | set of formal characteristics specific combination of content and form spiritual force |
| representamen | material dimension of sign; signifier |
| interpretant | signified; not fixed, user's cultural experience of sign |
| parody | ridicules by exaggerating the distance from normal |
| pastiche | no ridicule, no normal |
| post-internet | ubiquitous authorship; digital access is widespread the development of attention as currency the collapse of physical space in networked culture the infinite reproducibility and mutability of digital materials |
| post-internet artifacts | developed with concern to their physical materiality as well as the variety of ways to present and distribute them; artifacts migrate from platform to platform |
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