Quiz 10

Question 1

Form and content

Answer 1

modes of analysis may tend to focus on one more than the other

Question 2

Manifest content

Answer 2

what is shown; objects recognized by most - obvious or literal: - denotation

Question 3

Latent content

Answer 3

attached secondary meanings: connotation

Question 4

Denotational

Answer 4

what is shown

Question 5

Connotational

Answer 5

how it is shown/what it means

Question 6

Content analysis

Answer 6

quantitative analysis of date

Question 7

Iconography

Answer 7

branch of art history which studies content (representation); descriptive and classificatory.

Question 8

Iconology

Answer 8

“interpretive”; synthetic

Question 9

Primary

Answer 9

or natural

Question 10

Factual

Answer 10

what it is

Question 11

expressional

Answer 11

how it is rendered

Question 12

Secondary or conventional

Answer 12

what story is being shown; ‘stock characters

Question 13

Intrinsic meaning or content

Answer 13

underlying principles which reveal basic attitudes of a nation, a period, a class, a religious or philosophical persuasion.

Question 14

genre

Answer 14

french - species, kind or sort; in art, a classification or grouping of artworks that share certain iconographic elements, themes and stylistic conventions.

Question 15

Semiotics

Answer 15

Study of signs within society; fashionable beginning in 1960s.

Question 16

Signifier (Sr)

Answer 16

material dimension of sign

Question 17

Signified (Sd)

Answer 17

conceptual dimension of sign

Question 18

Syntagm

Answer 18

collection of signs in linear sequence (letters<word)

Question 19

Paradigm

Answer 19

A set where each unit has something in common and is obviously different from the other units.

Question 20

codes

Answer 20

analog and digital

Question 21

analog

Answer 21

paradigm with no easily fixed number of units

Question 22

digital

Answer 22

paradigm with fixed number of units

Question 23

object

Answer 23

external reality

Question 24

representamen (S/R)

Answer 24

material dimension of sign (signifier)

Question 25

interpretant (signified)

Answer 25

not fixed; user of sign, user's cultural experience of sign

Question 26

index

Answer 26

record of; a direct, causal connection (footprint)

Question 27

icon

Answer 27

resembles referent in some way (realist art; photo)

Question 28

symbol

Answer 28

arbitrary, depends on convention - agreement on how we should respond to a sign (letters/numbers)

Question 29

motivation

Answer 29

how much the signifier describes the signified: highly motivated - very iconic; least motivated - very symbolic.

Question 30

Semiosis

Answer 30

act of signifying; not one-way, similar to apperception

Question 31

unlimited semiosis

Answer 31

representamen gives interpretant, which "becomes" a representamen and triggers new interpretant; chain of associations (w/o fixed limits)

Question 32

myth

Answer 32

connotations for subgroup made to look "universal;" ideology made to look natural (or denotational)

Question 33

Linguistic message

Answer 33

text as caption

Question 34

coded iconic message

Answer 34

connotational level

Question 35

non-coded iconic message

Answer 35

image only

Question 36

anchorage

Answer 36

text as controlling reading of image

Question 37

relay

Answer 37

text supplying meanings not in images

Question 38

structuralism

Answer 38

set of theories emphasizing the laws, codes rules, formulas and conventions structuring human behavior and systems of meaning

Question 39

deconstruction

Answer 39

philosophical and literary term associated with Jacques Derrida and Jean-Francois Lyotard - criticized structuralism for overemphasizing structure at expense of elements that don't fit formulas

Question 40

Undecidability

Answer 40

stresses indeterminacy rather than closure; draws attention to framing devices (inside contaminated by outside)

Question 41

physical context

Answer 41

method stressing specific location as determinant of otherwise polysemic (method meanings) object or work

Question 42

Intertextuality

Answer 42

analysis relying on references to other works in the discipline; may highlight transformations (contaminations) as images mutate through borrowings.

Question 43

hermeneutics

Answer 43

interpreting texts and works of art

Question 44

Undecidability

Answer 44

impossibility of deciding between competing interpretations

Question 45

dissemination(fragmentation)

Answer 45

a new way of considering fragments not as from an original centered whole, but as constituents of a larger, but never completely graspable, entity.

Question 46

grand narratives

Answer 46

follow teleological progression towards equality and justice

Question 47

little narratives

Answer 47

local explanations of individual events or phenomena

Question 48

decentering

Answer 48

challenges the logo-centric

Question 49

simulation

Answer 49

postmodern blurs classic distinction between "real" and "copy;" hyperreal - reality is fabricated by technology