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This is a physical, three-dimensional space that can be mathematically measured.
Virtual Space
Cartesian space
Perspective
Camera obscura
2
Who argued that the human subject relies on encounters with the other to experience itself as an autonomous being?
Michele Foucault
Frantz Fanon
Jacques Lacan
Rene Descartes
3
The choices that are made to give objects new meanings and aesthetic values that differ from their original context
Signifying practices
Dominant-hegemonic
Oppositional
Transcoding
4
To gaze is to enter into a(n) ____________ activity of looking.
interpretational
self-aware
empowering
relational
5
The perspectival grid works much better to depict ____________ than ____________.
the human body; movement over time
built architectural space; the human body
the concept of a piece; the painter’s own experience
objects at different angles; the process of vision
6
What is the process of printing 3D objects from blueprints or samples?
dimensional printing
rapid prototyping
realism
artisanal printing
7
An image that refers to something outside of its individual components; has great symbolic meaning for many people is...
index
symbol
referent
icon
8
The Uncle Sam poster demands attention, but we should be asking, "What does this picture do?" instead of "say?"
want; say
evoke; want
say; evoke
want; do
9
This is defined as an institution’s rules and concepts through which power and knowledge are forged.
gaze
realism
discourse
modernity
10
Throughout its history, photography has been associated with ____________.
myth
symbolism
ideology
realism
11
Christian art, like the painted ceilings of Rome’s catacombs, reveal that painters were more concerned with...
Flatness
Sybolism
Rocks
Ceilings
12
How does the computer screen offer a kind of seeing similar to Cubism?
They both offer many standpoints all at once.
They both depict the complexity of human vision as a fluid process.
They both depict realism.
They both represent cube shapes in the form of pixels.
13
In the 1970s punk movement, safety pins symbolized rejecting mainstream culture. What is another term for this practice?
Bricolage
Kitch
Habitus
Strategy
14
______ is informed by experiences relating to one’s class, cultural background, education, and other aspects of identity
knowledge
realism
interpretation
taste
15
Which Dadaist artist developed and displayed “readymades”?
Dalí
Wilson
Haacke
Duchamp
16
A work of art’s _________ is “its presence in time & space, its unique existence at the place where it happens to be."
authenticity
expression of idea
indexical quality
aura
17
____________ refers to the use of language, marks, and images to create meaning about the world around us.
Representation
Reproduction
Interpretation
Interpellation
18
Michel Foucault argued that the human subject is produced through ____________.
the gaze
the Panopticon
modernity
discourse
19
Our knowledge that images can be ambiguous and easily altered is in constant tension with a photograph’s ____________.
signifier
representation
studium
punctum
20
These signs involve an “existential” relationship between the sign & the viewer. They co-exist in the same place & time.
Iconic
Indexical
Symbolic
Literal
21
This analyzes how Western discourses constituted the human subjects of non-Western locations as lacking agency or voice
Psychoanalysis
Historical materialism
Orientalism
Postcolonialism
22
To gaze is to enter into a(n) ____________ activity of looking.
interpretational
self-aware
empowering
relational
23
A digital image is different from a traditional film photograph in that it does not have a __________.
negative
real subject
mode of reproduction
light source
24
What is the study of signs, symbols, and how we interpret them?
myth
semiotics
mimesis
hermeneutics
25
____________ is a set of techniques for depicting spatial depth within two-dimensional pictorial space.
Constructivism
Cartography
Perspective
Realism
26
This refers to the ways that Western cultures conceive of Eastern and Middle Eastern cultures as
other.
Postcolonialism
Orientalism
Materialism
Bricolage
27
Kruger’s
Untitled (Your manias become science)
uses the atomic bomb image of to represent which sentiment?
aesthetic
counterhegemonic
hegemonic
strategic
28
____________ produced works in which the idea is more important than the visual product
Cartesian perspectivists
a.Cubists
Impressionists
Conceptual artists
29
Emmett Till’s mother placed his dead body on view in an open-casket funeral is an example of _________.
Realism
Appropriation
Countervisuality
Visuality
30
Which of the following most affects our understanding of Dorothea Lange’s
Migrant Mother
as an iconic image?
a picture of a civil rights protest
a Madonna and child painting
a still life portrait
a Woman's Day magazine cover
31
We make meaning of the material world by understanding images, objects, & other entities in their specific __________.
cultural contexts
symbolism
allegories
theoretical contexts
32
Where would a snow globe fall on James Clifford’s map of the Art-Culture System?
Art
Not-Culture
Culture
Not-Art
33
The process where social movements take hegemonic texts or once-derogatory terms and reuse them to affirm & empower is:
transcoding
appropriation
institutional critique
negotiation
34
As used by semiotician Charles Pierce, a photograph’s ________ is its ability to serve as empirical evidence of the real
authenticity
realism
expression of idea
indexical quality
35
Which event is associated with the rise of classical modernity?
the French Revolution (oi, oi)
World War II
Constantinople’s fall
the invention of the printing press
36
____________ images break with the convention of representing what is seen, and can be analog or digital.
Virtual
Abstract
Cartesian
Digital
37
Who is NOT an "other"?
The black person is other to the white person.
The slave is other to the master.
The rich person is other to a poor person.
The woman other to the man.