art exam 2 Flashcards
(8 cards)
What constitutes the mass media? What are the main critiques regarding how it operates in culture? What options are there for working against it?
The public sphere was said to have begun in the late 18th century. Define the term, and the conditions in which it arose, and discuss how it has been affected by modern and contemporary developments.
Sturken and Cartwright asser that concets of the human subject and human culture are increasly interperted though an ecomiv paradigan. Explain the rolse that images play in commodity culture and describe their psychogical and social consequences
what stratiges do coroperations and advetistments employ consumtion? what alterative critical response have developed by a result?
“Everything has been done before.” How does this phrase pertain to postmodernism?
In what ways do history and past cultural products get utilized in postmodern works?
What is distinctive about the development of postmodern architecture? How is the
experience of space and the built environment altered?
Define the medical gaze, along with its history, promises and defects. How has this
form of the gaze shifted in the era of digital and genetic technologies?
What are some of the ethical issues that were raised by Gunther von Hagen’s Body Worlds exhibition?