Test: Visual Culture and Literacy Vocabulary - 20 Questions

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5 Written Questions

5 Matching Questions

  1. encoding
  2. episteme
  3. marxist theoryu
  4. Classical art
  5. counter-bricolage
  1. a when marketers and advertisers 'borrow' and sell as commodities aspects of the bricolage style (i.e. street art used in advertising)
  2. b the production of meaning in cultural products.
  3. c the ideas and ways of organizing knowledge that are common to a particular era.
  4. d art that adheres to the styles and aesthetics of tradition, especially Greek and Roman art. Balance, symmetry and proportion are emphasized.
  5. e a political and economic critique which says (in brief) that those who own the means of production control the masses.

5 Multiple Choice Questions

  1. phenomena that can exist, but not in a tangible or physical way. A simulation of experience.
  2. a term that suggests the exotic in other countries
  3. distinct social groups within wider cultural groups that define themselves in opposition to mainstream culture
  4. a branch of philosophy concerned with judgements of taste and considers the meaning and value of art in light of standards such as beauty and truth.
  5. a style of art that represented the dynamism and complexity of human vision by representing objects simultaneously from different perspectives

5 True/False Question

  1. denotative meaning → all the social, culture and historical meanings that are added to a work of art's denotative meaning.

          

  2. connotative meaning → all the social, culture and historical meanings that are added to a work of art's denotative meaning.

          

  3. habitus → the unconscious tendancies that are part of an individuals sense of taste and preferences for cultural consumption.

          

  4. panopticism → a term that suggests the exotic in other countries

          

  5. dada → a term used to describe the special quality that seems to emanate from unique works of art

          

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