Definition | Term |
Theory that encompasses political, social and economical aspects. | |
Re-appropriation of terms, i.e. taking back the term queer. | |
Culture that is only for the elite such as classical music, fine arts and opera. | |
Distinct social group within larger cultural formation usually in opposition to the mainstream, i.e. punk, goth, low riders. | |
The idea that the people who are oppressed by a particular system support it because they have been convinced that it’s the only one that works. | |
When manufacturers and mainstream culture appropriated content and style form youth and subcultures in order to appear “hip” or “cool” or to refresh image. | |
State of dominance achieved for a process of negotiation and struggles resulting in a consensus where ideology is considered as common sense. | |
Upper class, collector, well versed in specific a field, discriminating taste. Reinforces class boundaries. | |
The means by which images call out to the viewer. | |
The power to act or make meaning without outside influence. | |
Making do, or working with whatever materials are at hand in order to create one’s own product. | |
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Interpreting or reworking a text or image to suit one’s own interests. | |
Individual style or preference. Based on cultural values, class. Can be trained, altered | |
Philosophical analysis of beauty. Pleasant by virtue of an art object’s style, virtuosity, beauty and creativity. | |
Oppositional and activist | |
The act of taking or borrowing pre-existing images and objects in order to refashion them for one’s own purposed, usually oppositional in nature. | |
Acquired patterns of thinking and bodily behavior. | |
Artworks that challenge or critique the power of institutions to determine meaning, value and taste. | |
Culture that is commercial, easily available and accessible to the lower class. | |
The product of complex social interaction among image, viewers and context. | |
Cultural objects that have little aesthetic value and are illustrative of “bad” taste. Usually trite, mass produced, cheap, formulaic, gaudy. Opposite of fine art. | |
The imaginary relationship of individuals to their conditions of existence. A way of thinking/a set of ideas | |
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