Images, Power, and Politics
What refers to the use of language, marks, and images to create meaning about the world around us
Interpellation
Reproduction
Interpretation
Representation
Representation
To be interpellated is to be hailed or called in a way in which you recognize yourself to be the person intended by the call.
True
False
True
Which artists used characteristic methods of a discipline to criticize the discipline itself, not to subvert it but to entrench it more firmly in its area of competence.
Industrial
Psychoanalytic
Modernist
Postcolonial
Modernist
Which of your classmates is from India but lived in Dubai for most of their life?
Aadi
These cultures, in which people are dispersed across national boundaries and continents, are linked in part by global media cultures.
Marginal
Postcolonial
Diasporic
Globalized
Diasporic
What is the study of signs, symbols, and how we interpret them?
Semiotics
Hermeneutics
Myth
Mimesis
Semiotics
What is informed by experiences relating to one’s class, cultural background, education, and other aspects of identity.
Interpretation
Taste
Knowledge
Understanding
Taste
In 1980s France, the term bourgeoisie was used to describe property less industrial wage earners who emerged as a class distinct from both the landless agricultural worker and the bourgeois.
True
False
False
During the Renaissance, physicians began to seek this type of evidence by looking inside the body, not only cutting it open to see but also using tools to seek out aspects that could not be discerned directly by hand or by eye.
Empirical
Physiognomist
Positivist
Technological
Empirical
If we can say that visual culture was the paradigmatic form of the twentieth century, what does this book propose as the paradigmatic form of the twenty-first century?
Museum franchises
Television program formats
Engineering and the built environment
Borders
Engineering and the built environment
Which signs, as discussed by Charles Peirce, involve an “existential” relationship between the sign and the interpretant. This means they have co-existed in the same place at the same time.
Iconic
Indexical
Literal
Symbolic
Indexical
Barbara Kruger’s Untitled (Your manias become science) uses an image of the atomic bomb, originally suggesting the primacy of Western science and technology, to express what kind of sentiment through its critique of nuclear weapons.
Aesthetic
Hegemonic
Counterhegemonic
Strategic
Counterhegemonic
Black Lives Matter’s curation of images on social media beyond those provided by police and the press is explicitly about what
Connecting people to geographically distant communities
The right to look
Creating a networked sphere
Narrowcasting
The right to look
The current biotech era is seen to be equally historically important as the Renaissance, an era perceived to be defined by its immense progress in human creativity and fine art.
True
False
True
What is one negative repercussion cited by this book of the prevalence of stock photography in news publications?
Fewer professional photographers are paid livable wages.
Stock images are a tool of cultural imperialism.
Public demand for higher quality makes images increasingly difficult to reproduce.
Source information is easily lost.
Source information is easily lost.
Emmett Till’s mother insisted that her son’s body be placed on view in an open-casket funeral for the press to document and the public to see. Her decision went against the wishes of the authorities in Mississippi, who wanted the mutilated body quickly buried. Mamie Till’s decision is an example of what
Realism
Visuality
Countervisuality
Appropriation
Countervisuality
Traditionally associated with domesticity, safety pins were appropriated by the 1970s punk movement as a form of decoration that signaled a refusal to participate in mainstream domestic culture and disdain for the dreary norms of everyday consumer culture. Another term for this type of signifying practice is what
Bricolage
Strategy
Habitus
Kitsch
Bricolage
Why is Diego Velázquez’s Las Meninas (1656) one of the most analyzed paintings in art history?
It depicts an uncensored view of daily life for the Spanish royal family.
Velázquez’s use of perspective makes the viewer feel as though (s)he is playing a video game.
The positionality of the external spectator is unclear and ambiguous.
Princess Margarita’s stare is a reversal of the male gaze.
The positionality of the external spectator is unclear and ambiguous.
According to Vanessa Schwartz, what desire did visiting the Paris morgue and viewing corpses satisfy in nineteenth-century Parisians?
To help solve mysterious deaths
To learn
To be part of a spectacle
To look
To look
Which of your classmates has heterochromia (different colored irises)?
Paige
At a sorority mixer, Suki captures the varied expressions on the faces of a group of her friends who are not aware of her camera and whose attention is focused on something not within the frame of her picture.
In these respects, her photo most resembles which of the following images?
Weegee, The First Murder (1941)
Dorothea Lange, Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California (1936)
Cover of Paris Match, no. 326, June 25 – July 2, 1955
Timothy O’Sullivan, Gettysburg, Pa. Dead Confederate Soldier in “the Devil’s Den” (1863)
Weegee, The First Murder (1941)
Which of your classmates hates using bread tags?
Anna R.
On November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated while traveling in a presidential motorcade through downtown Dallas. While the assassination itself was not broadcast live, news of JFK’s death was immediately transmitted nationally via television, radio, and word of mouth. Many Americans alive in 1963 remember where they were when JFK was shot, stories they will often share. The immediate dissemination of JFK’s murder created the sense of what that bonds those with stories to each other and makes them feel as though they are part of a national community.
Neoliberalism
Collectivity
Simultaneity
Homogeneity
Simultaneity
In 1965, the Voting Rights Act was signed into law. It prohibited state and local governments from implementing laws that placed undue hardship on people of color—especially Black people—in the voting process. Some examples of these laws include the implementation of literacy tests or the requirement of a state identification card either during voter registration or at the polls themselves. The Voting Rights Act therefore decreased the state’s what.
Use of physiognomy
Empiricism
Biopower
Dependence on biometrics
Biopower
In April 2016, the GULF (Global Ultra Luxury Faction) artist group projected images of the Guggenheim museum’s trustees and protest slogans onto the exterior of the Guggenheim in New York. What was the purpose of this action?
To end the franchising of cultural institutions
To expose the petro-capital behind the museum’s Abu Dhabi branch
To force the Guggenheim to return foreign artworks collected illicitly during times of war and imperial expansion
To demand that the museum pay decent wages to the workers building its Abu Dhabi museum
To demand that the museum pay decent wages to the workers building its Abu Dhabi museum