ARTH 2220 Study Guide - Final Guide: Roland Barthes, Semiotics, Shared Experience
14 Apr 2013
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Arth 1220 - study notes exam 1. Practices of looking are also formed by power relationships; even the act of choosing to look or not to look is an act of power. We engage in the practices of looking every day, with an ever-increasing amount of visual artifacts permeating most cultures. Representation is the use of language and images to create meaning about the world around us. Mimesis is a concept that understands representation as a process of imitating or mirroring the real without taking into account how codes and conventions of representation impact meanings. We ourselves construct meaning through historical and cultural contexts. The artist ren magritte contrasted mimesis and representation with his painting the. Treachery of images ( ceci n"est pas une pipe ). The myth of photographic truth is that we perceive photographs to be an unmediated copy of the real world.
