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Which of the following is NOT typically a focus when analyzing visual culture?
Which of the following is NOT typically a focus when analyzing visual culture?
- The economic factors influencing its production
- The personal biography of the artist (correct)
- The reception of the visual element by its audience
- The intentions behind the creation of the visual element
Visual culture is solely concerned with traditional forms of art like paintings and sculptures.
Visual culture is solely concerned with traditional forms of art like paintings and sculptures.
False (B)
According to the provided information, what three aspects should one focus on when looking at visual culture?
According to the provided information, what three aspects should one focus on when looking at visual culture?
Production, Reception, and Intention
Visual culture is intertwined with everything one sees daily, communicating through _________ means.
Visual culture is intertwined with everything one sees daily, communicating through _________ means.
Match the following concepts with their descriptions based on Ian Hunter's division of aesthetics:
Match the following concepts with their descriptions based on Ian Hunter's division of aesthetics:
According to the provided text, what does visual culture reveal about a people or civilization?
According to the provided text, what does visual culture reveal about a people or civilization?
Visual Culture Studies primarily applies pre-existing theory to objects of study.
Visual Culture Studies primarily applies pre-existing theory to objects of study.
What are two elements of the 'viewing apparatuses' when studying visual culture?
What are two elements of the 'viewing apparatuses' when studying visual culture?
Visual culture analyzes the act of seeing as a 'tension between the _________ object and the internal thought processes'.
Visual culture analyzes the act of seeing as a 'tension between the _________ object and the internal thought processes'.
Which of the following best describes the relationship between aesthetics and cultural studies in the context of defining visual culture?
Which of the following best describes the relationship between aesthetics and cultural studies in the context of defining visual culture?
The term 'visual culture' is limited to architectural constructions and artistic creations.
The term 'visual culture' is limited to architectural constructions and artistic creations.
As described in the text, what does 'visual culture' collectively describe about a people, a state or a civilization?
As described in the text, what does 'visual culture' collectively describe about a people, a state or a civilization?
In visual culture, the act of seeing involves a relationship among sight, knowledge, and _________.
In visual culture, the act of seeing involves a relationship among sight, knowledge, and _________.
What is the purpose of the term 'visual culture', according to the content?
What is the purpose of the term 'visual culture', according to the content?
According to Ian Hunter, aesthetics solely focuses on the appreciation of beauty.
According to Ian Hunter, aesthetics solely focuses on the appreciation of beauty.
What is the relationship between aesthetics and the collective expression of a culture?
What is the relationship between aesthetics and the collective expression of a culture?
Visual Culture Studies considers attending to the historical, conceptual, and _________ specificity of things.
Visual Culture Studies considers attending to the historical, conceptual, and _________ specificity of things.
What is a Viewing Apparatus, as it relates to Visual Culture Studies?
What is a Viewing Apparatus, as it relates to Visual Culture Studies?
Visual Theory applies new theory to objects of study.
Visual Theory applies new theory to objects of study.
Match the Visual Culture study element to the description.
Match the Visual Culture study element to the description.
Flashcards
Visual Culture
Visual Culture
The study of art history, humanities, sciences, and social sciences through visual means, reflecting culture and analyzing its visual impact.
Expressions of Visual Culture
Expressions of Visual Culture
Tangible visual expressions of a people, state, or civilization, revealing characteristics and mindset.
Visual Culture Studies
Visual Culture Studies
A field analyzing the historical, conceptual, and material specificity of things, viewing apparatuses, and critical encounters, to understand how objects become visible.
Aesthetics (Beautiful)
Aesthetics (Beautiful)
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Aesthetics (Ideal)
Aesthetics (Ideal)
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Study Notes
- Visual culture studies a work using art history, humanities, sciences, and social sciences.
- Visual culture is linked to things one sees in day to day life such as advertising, landscapes, buildings, photographs, movies, paintings, and apparel.
- Visual culture communicates through visual means.
- When studying visual culture, one must focus on production, reception, and intention, as well as economical, social, and ideological aspects.
- Visual culture reflects the culture of the work and analyzes the visual aspect of it.
- Visual culture focuses on questions of the visible object and the viewer.
- Visual culture analyzes the act of seeing as tension between the external object and the internal thought processes.
- Visual culture refers to the tangible, or visible, expressions by a people, a state or a civilization
- Visual culture collectively describes the characteristics of that body as a whole.
- Visual culture is most seamlessly applied to an architectural construction or artistic creation.
- Visual culture is not necessarily limited to the most obvious and direct forms of visual expression.
- Visual culture is useful for what specific aspects of the visual culture of a people reveal about the people themselves.
Aesthetics According to Ian Hunter:
- What is considered beautiful: the technical discussion of style and concepts which lead to the greater philosophy of art
- What is considered ideal: “a socioethical doctrine centered on an ideal mode of life and order of society”
- Visual culture” describes the collective evidence that overlaps that boundary.
- The characteristics attributed to that evidence, with respect to aesthetic values, provide a pathway towards describing the collective identity of that people and their unique mindset.
- Aesthetics is what they consider desirable (beautiful or ideal) and cultural studies is their all-encompassing “way of life,” then the collective expression of the two makes up their visual culture.
- Visual Culture Studies is not simply ‘theory’ or even ‘visual theory’ in any conventional sense, and it does not simply ‘apply’ theory or visual theory to objects of study.
- It is not the study of images, based on the casual premise that our contemporary culture is an image culture.
Three defining characteristics of Visual Culture Studies
- Finding ways of attending to the historical, conceptual, and material specificity of things
- Taking account of ‘viewing apparatuses’
- Critical encounters with objects
- The ‘object’ of Visual Culture Studies is born, emerges, is discernible, shows itself, becomes visible through these characteristics.
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