General Vocab

Art And Art History 491 with Chon at Reed College

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Affect

An inner disposition or feeling (rather than an external manifestation or action).

Allegory

Description of a subject under the guise of some other subject of aptly suggestive resemblance.

Anamnesis

The recalling of things past; recollection, reminiscence.

Ancillary

Subordinate or subsidiary

Antinomic

Contradictory.

Antipodes

Opposite points of the globe.

Caesura

A pause or breathing-place about the middle of a metrical line, generally indicated by a pause in the sense.

Cathectic.

Relating to the concentration of energy in a particular channel.

Coeval

Of equal antiquity, of contemporaneous origin, going back to the same date.

Heuristic

Experience-based techniques for problem solving, learning, and discovery (general ways of solving problems),

Grisaille

Painted in gray monotone.

Imbricate

To place so as to overlap.

Hieratic

Applied to a style of art (esp. Egyptian or Greek), in which earlier types or methods, fixed by religious tradition, are conventionally adhered to,

Firman

An edict or order issued by an Oriental sovereign. Also a grant, a license, a permit.

Hermeneutic

Belonging to or concerned with interpretation; esp. as distinguished from exegesis (explanation) or practical exposition.

Explication

Making clear and unfolding, to make the implicit meaning explicit.

Diegesis

The narrative presented by a cinematographic film or literary work; the fictional time, place, characters, and events which constitute the universe of the narrative.

Divagation

The action of divagating (a wandering, straying away, deviation, digression).

Palimpsest

A thing likened to a writing surface, especially in having been reused and altered while retaining traces of its earlier form. A multilayered record.

Palliative

That relieves the symptoms of a disease or condition without dealing with the underlying causes.

Priapic

Of, relating to, or resembling the god Priapus and his cult; phallic, sexual, lascivious.

Prolegomena

An introductory text (especially to a subject or study of particular corpus or text).

Orthogonal

Relating to perspective; perpendicular or right angles.

Ordonnance

Systematic arrangement esp. of materials or features / a plan or method of literary or artistic composition.

Autotelic

Having a purpose in and not apart from itsel.

Condign

Equal in worth or dignity. Archaic adjective.

Connote

To suggest by implication and association.

Panacea

A remedy or cure or medicine reputed to cure all ills.

Palinode

The withdrawal of a statement. Originally an ode that retracted a view.

Pentimento

When a figure emerges from under the glaze of a painting (layers degrade over time).

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