CS351- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 22 pages long!)
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Course introduction january 4 & 6 xxix-xxxviii. Entirely aimed at theorizing and speculating how visual culture exists to us in a variety of ways. Socio/cultural relevance of how we see the world. The way we see the world and spend time with it is mixed media (sports, clothes, film, etc) say things about who we are and how we exist. Mirzoeff 3 categories of culture: as a means of authoritative control: 1. Classification when we spend time looking at something, we classify how we want to think about the image we are viewing. Stemming from natural history, classification operates by creating distinctions such as free and slave or colonizer and colonized that are then enforced by law or custom: 2. A physical separation between those so classified as rebellious" or not and becomes naturalized: 3. Aesthetics how you react to the aesthetic qualities. Classification and separation are then reinforced by an aesthetics .
