VAT Midterm UPDATED Actual Questions and CORRECT Answers
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VAT Midterm UPDATED Actual Questions
and CORRECT Answers
Explain how René Magritte's work The Treachery of Images plays with ideas of
representation. - CORRECT ANSWER- The work depicts a pipe with the line "This is
not a pipe". This line shows the relationship between words and things; this...
VAT Midterm UPDATED Actual Questions
and CORRECT Answers
Explain how René Magritte's work The Treachery of Images plays with ideas of
representation. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- The work depicts a pipe with the line "This is
not a pipe". This line shows the relationship between words and things; this is not a pipe itself
but instead the representation of a pipe.
Why does photography fit the positivist way of thinking? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- A
photograph has the ability to present evidence and to evoke a magical or mythical quality that
moves us beyond specific empirical truths.
Positivism involves the belief that empirical truths can be established through visual
evidence.
In the television news image of the student protest at Tiananmen Square in Beijing in 1989,
what are the denotative and connotative meanings of the image? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
The denotative meaning of this image is that it is a young man standing in front of a tank
while the connotative meaning of the image is understood to be the importance of individual
actions in the face of injustice and the capacity of one individual to stand up to the forces of
power.
Explain how Marilyn Monroe is an image icon. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Marilyn
Monroe is considered to be an image icon because she was seen as the embodiment of female
glamour and her physical appearance was said to be the stereotypical American beauty ideal.
Describe Roland Barthes's theory of myth as it is used in this chapter. - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔- Describes a myth as the hidden set of rules and conventions through which
meanings, which are in reality specific to certain groups, are made to seem universal and
given for a whole society.
Describe two ways in which art works receive social value. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
One way in which art works receive social value is the social mythology that surrounds a
work of art. For example, Van Gogh's Irises is seen as authentic because it is known as an
original work of Van Gogh. Another way in which art works receive social value is through
the mechanisms of art display. Some art works are known to be more important because of
the gilded frame that it is placed in.
, Explain how the Weegee images and the images of Emmett Till are examples of the practices
of looking. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- The Weegee images and the images of Emmett Till
are examples of the practices of looking because they both demonstrate views of violence,
and the fascination with violence, that is countered with a history of images made to expose
the tragic acts of violence.
Give one argument for the position that photographs are objective renderings of the real
world that provide unbiased truth. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Allan Sekula, an artist and a
theorist, proposes the idea that "photographs achieve semantic status as fetish objects and as
documents". This means that a photograph is supposed to have a power that is either
primarily affective or primarily informative.
Give an example of an image and its dominant hegemonic, negotiated, and oppositional
readings. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Image: American Idol
Dominant hegemonic reading: the idea that normal people can rise to stardom based on talent
Negotiated reading: entertainment of success that is a fantasy
Oppositional reading: an example of the myth that everyone has equal opportunity to succeed
What are the three elements involved in the production of meaning of an image besides the
image itself and its producer? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- 1) the codes and conventions the
structure the image
2) viewers
3) the context in which it is viewed
Explain what the authors mean by the following statement: "Viewing, even for the individual
subject, is a multimodal activity." - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- The elements that come into
play when we look may include not only images, but also other images withwhich they are
displayed.
What is the traditional meaning of the term interpellation? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- to
interrupt a procedure in order to question someone or something formally
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