Wednesday 23 November 2016

Study Task 4- Images and Theory

Representation

1the action of speaking or acting on behalf of someone or the state of being so represented.

2. the description or portrayal of someone or something in a particular way.
o    the depiction of someone or something in a work of art.
o    a picture, model, or other depiction of someone or something.
o     (in some theories of perception) a mental state or concept regarded as corresponding to a thing perceived.

3.formal statements made to an authority, especially so as to communicate an opinion or register a protest.
o    a statement or allegation.

How does it relate to visual? See above (number 2):


Representation of Zeus as a realistic person/god (left), a caricature of Zeus aimed at a specific target audience (right).

Picture Theory: ESSAYS ON VERBAL AND VISUAL REPRESENTATION - W. J. T. Mitchell

What precisely, W. J. T. Mitchell asks, are pictures (and theories of pictures) doing now, in the late twentieth century, when the power of the visual is said to be greater than ever before, and the "pictorial turn" supplants the "linguistic turn" in the study of culture? This book by one of America's leading theorists of visual representation offers a rich account of the interplay between the visible and the readable across culture, from literature to visual art to the mass media.
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Intertextuality

The relationship between texts, especially literary ones.

How does it relate to visual?
Referencing other works within a text or visual media:


i.e. a parody or associationA parody of the Mona Lisa by visually referencing Squidward, a children’s cartoon character.

Theory: Inevitability of arts from inter-textuality by Mohammad Khosravi Shakib

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