CCII Test 31-40 Flashcards
(11 cards)
What were the inspirations for the Liberation Movements? (Name two leaders)
Mahatma Gandhi, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
What is Feminism? Name two of its influential contributors.
The principle of advocating equal social, political, and economical rights for man and women
Virginia Woolf
Simone De Beauvoir
What was Simon De Beauvoir’s approach in creating a new identity for woman?
Rejection of the feminine essence, alliance with man. Women as the “other”
What was the main strategy of feminist artist in introducing an innovative style in artistic production? Name two artists.
The main strategy was to use shock value (explicit use of the genitalia and blunt text) to convey their message. Judy Chicago (1939) Barbara Kruger (1945)
Explain Post-colonialism
the political or cultural condition of a former colony - a theoretical approach in various disciplines that is concerned with the lasting impact of colonization in former colonies.
Explain Body Politics.
Body used as art, site of struggle, sexual and performance art
What is the Global paradigm?
The condition of interrelates and interdependence among the various parts of the planet, of interdependence among culture, the transparent society
What is Derrida’s deconstructionism?
To deconstruct context to unmask many meanings I.E. we are prisoners to language that we use to think and describe the world
What is phenomenology?
the science of phenomena as distinct from that of the nature of being.
Name at least four approaches of postmodernism in arts.
Denial of master narrative
Identity Polotics
a tendency for people of a particular religion, race, social background, etc., to form exclusive political alliances, moving away from traditional broad-based party politics.
