Exam 2 f

Art History 354 with Guerrero at University of Wisconsin - Madison

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Cereus Blooms at Night: A Novel

Codex Espangliensis: From Columbus to the Border Patrol

Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began
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Trickster

A joke-playing figure to be both feared and held in reverence. a central figure in north american mythology, the trickster is characteristically portrayed as human in mentality but animal in form. the term was invented by u.s. scholars to characterize this figure central to native american lore and survival practices.

Autoethnography

Pratt p. 7

Ethnography is traditionally the way in which europeans use language and images to represent other peoples as objects of knowledge. Pratt develops the term autoethnography to characterize the way in which colonized subjects appropriate the terms and forms of colonial ethnography to represent themselves. it does not conform to the expectations of what constitutes native or authentic forms of self representation as they involve partial collaboration with appropriation or mixture with idioms, styles and forms associated with the "conqueror" or the colonizing cultures. The canonical example is Guaman Poma's use of the codex to represent Inca history and customs.

Disidentification

An aesthetic tactic of survival for minorities who are represented negatively in dominant culture and excluded from its representations of the ideal. There is more to identity than identifying with one's culture or standing solidly against it. It encompasses both identification with dominant cultural icons and antagonisms through dominant culture. It is an active mode of recycling and reforming already charged objects and icons.

Superman

The Jewish-American creators of the comicbook superhero were deliberately responding to the Nazi myth of the Ubermensch and reformulated the anti-semitic Nazi "Superman" into one that could defy and even fight against it by fusing two other "superman" figures: the Judeo-Christian heroic leader "Moses" and the "Muscle Jew". The German Jewish icon of mascularity aimed to counter anti-semitic representations of teh Jew's body as degenerate and feeble.

Pop Art

Coined in 1956 by British art critic Lawrence Alloway to refer to post-WWII paintings with an interest in consumerism. It incorporates the techniques and ways of making characteristic commercial design and manufacturing and the citation and transformation of signs and representational sytles of popular culture imagery and mass media. Pop art is often characterized by its with and glamorization (often ironic) of what it recycles.

Montage

A formal practice of compostion in which an idea, image or mood is created by the juxtapositon or ocmpilation of different images and angles or points of view within a single frame often forming a new and surprising unity from disparate pieces.

Performative

Current theoretical work and performance art exposes the performative nature of seemingly nonperformative images and statements, that is they demonstrate how seemingly innocent or innocuous images and statements ahave force in the way that they reveal and reinforce assumptions about the wrold and existing value systems. Theorist and performance artistis often work with this capacity to try to change their power and reality-making effects.

Pre-Columbian

This term refers to the cultures of the "New World" in the era before the spanish conquest. Technically it refers to the rea before Christopher Columbus arrived to the Caribbean. In practice, the term is used to discuss the civilizations of the New World in the period after the first wave of attempted conquests.

New World

Geographically the term liuterally refers to the hemisphere that includes NJorth and South America. However, since the early modern period, in European writing it also functions as a conceptual metaphor for versions of utopia built around or out of the Americas. Thus, in Gomez-Pena's book The New World Border, he re-imagines the "New World Order" and its policed borders as, instead, "a great trans- and intercontinental border zone, a place where no center remain. The only tur "others" are those who resist fusion and cross-culture dialogue.

Mestizo

Is spansih for "mixed blood". Fruzinski uses it to argue for a distinction between hybrid forms that are the aesthetic expression of European domination and those produced by dominated groups in repsonse to the invasion of Mesticzo art practices. The visual arts of domination were also appropriated as vhicles fo rthe rescue and survicval of indigenous belief systems.

Codex

A manuscript volume, often refering to the manuscripts of ancient classics and scripture. The books of pre-columbian mesoamerica had basically the same form as ancient codices, with long folded strips of paper. Hence the ancient books of the Maya, Aztec and Mixtec peoples are refered to/known as codices. They were made to be viewed in groups or to be discussed out loud.

Mappa Mundi

Latin word for map of the world, form the middle ages maps of the world organized like picture encyclopedias.

Petroglyph

pictures, symbols or other artworks carved or incised on natural rock surfaces.

surrogation

someone or something that stands in for something else.

Holocaust

Derives from Greek meaning "burnt whole".

Allegory

Derives from Greek meaning "Speaking otherwise". The term refers to visual art works that employ single figures or groupings of objects and figures to stand in for an abstract quality, concept or lesson. An allegorical reading of a work usually involves interpretting images or words for the concepts that may be more significant than the actual, literal events shown in an image or described in a narrative.

Black Humour

The juxtaposition of morbid and farcical elements, representing opposing morla views or rendering the complexity of moral and aesthetic experience.

Avatar

Hindu Sanskrit word for the temporary, visible body or incarnation of a god or goddess. It is generally used for the virtual graphic image taken to stand in for the self or player in gaming scenarios.