Week 10 (PRE-FINALS) Flashcards
is generally an extremely visual field, or set of practices, even if we look outside the obvious candidates of painting, drawing and sculpture
Art
is something peculiar to human culture, the word itself is etymologically related to ‘Artificial’, or produced by human beings.
Art
evades firm definitions.
The meaning of Art
In earlier periods this word means anything people did that required skill was an ____.
Art
Medieval or Renaissance writers, for instance, refer to the arts of war, conversation and what we now call ‘_______’ were then just artisans-ordinary workers who applied their specialized skills within collectives or guilds.
Artist
Appropriate literacies to read the artwork
Reading Artworks
anything to do with its production that is not associated with its meaning making.
Form
Medium
Form
Compositional Elements
Color
Line
Shape
Texture
The technical aspects of its production and allows us to begin the process of unpacking the work-classifying, categorizing and critiquing it.
Reading Artworks
Examine the Content
- What the work is about
- What it is saying
- Other issues to which it might - be referring (including intertexts)
- It subject matter and;
- Elements such as figure, genre and narrative
states that art can be understood as comprising a cultural field, which he calls the ‘field of cultural production’
Bourdieu
The context in which it was made and disseminated and is now being read
Reading Artworks
means everything that is done and everyone involved in doing it, within a discrete area of social practice.
Field
(art museums, publishing houses, public relations firms, government arts bodies)
Institutions
(Artists, Curators, Directors, Conservators, Promoters)
People
