VisCom Midterm Ch1-5

We make meaning of the material world by understanding images, objects, & other entities in their specific __________.

____________ produced works in which the idea is more important than the visual product

What is the study of signs, symbols, and how we interpret them?

Our knowledge that images can be ambiguous and easily altered is in constant tension with a photograph’s ____________.

In the 1970s punk movement, safety pins symbolized rejecting mainstream culture. What is another term for this practice?

Michel Foucault argued that the human subject is produced through ____________.

Which Dadaist artist developed and displayed “readymades”?

A work of art’s _________ is “its presence in time & space, its unique existence at the place where it happens to be."

An image that refers to something outside of its individual components; has great symbolic meaning for many people is...

The Uncle Sam poster demands attention, but we should be asking, "What does this picture do?" instead of "say?"

Who argued that the human subject relies on encounters with the other to experience itself as an autonomous being?

Throughout its history, photography has been associated with ____________.

____________ refers to the use of language, marks, and images to create meaning about the world around us.

______ is informed by experiences relating to one’s class, cultural background, education, and other aspects of identity

____________ images break with the convention of representing what is seen, and can be analog or digital.

The choices that are made to give objects new meanings and aesthetic values that differ from their original context

To gaze is to enter into a(n) ____________ activity of looking.

To gaze is to enter into a(n) ____________ activity of looking.

Which event is associated with the rise of classical modernity?

Who is NOT an "other"?

Christian art, like the painted ceilings of Rome’s catacombs, reveal that painters were more concerned with...

As used by semiotician Charles Pierce, a photograph’s ________ is its ability to serve as empirical evidence of the real

Kruger’s Untitled (Your manias become science) uses the atomic bomb image of to represent which sentiment?

Which of the following most affects our understanding of Dorothea Lange’s Migrant Mother as an iconic image?

A digital image is different from a traditional film photograph in that it does not have a __________.

____________ is a set of techniques for depicting spatial depth within two-dimensional pictorial space. 

What is the process of printing 3D objects from blueprints or samples?

This refers to the ways that Western cultures conceive of Eastern and Middle Eastern cultures as other.

The process where social movements take hegemonic texts or once-derogatory terms and reuse them to affirm & empower is:

These signs involve an “existential” relationship between the sign & the viewer. They co-exist in the same place & time.

Emmett Till’s mother placed his dead body on view in an open-casket funeral is an example of _________.

Where would a snow globe fall on James Clifford’s map of the Art-Culture System?

This is defined as an institution’s rules and concepts through which power and knowledge are forged.

This is a physical, three-dimensional space that can be mathematically measured.

The perspectival grid works much better to depict ____________ than ____________.

How does the computer screen offer a kind of seeing similar to Cubism?

This analyzes how Western discourses constituted the human subjects of non-Western locations as lacking agency or voice