Summary: Lecture Fashion And Visual Culture | school

Study material generic cover image
  • This + 400k other summaries
  • A unique study and practice tool
  • Never study anything twice again
  • Get the grades you hope for
  • 100% sure, 100% understanding
PLEASE KNOW!!! There are just 29 flashcards and notes available for this material. This summary might not be complete. Please search similar or other summaries.
Use this summary
Remember faster, study better. Scientifically proven.
Trustpilot Logo

Read the summary and the most important questions on lecture fashion and visual culture | school

  • 1 lecture fashion and visual culture

    This is a preview. There are 1 more flashcards available for chapter 1
    Show more cards here

  • What is high culture?

    Culture of an elite, such as aristocrats
  • What is a low culture?

    Popular culture, This means everything in society that has mass appeal. In today's society, this would involve things like 'take-away' meals, gossip magazines, books that are current best sellers, and sports such as football, basketball.
  • There is a fading distinction between high/low culture, name an example:

    Haute couture is influenced by street culture, and low is upgraded and receives attention in newspapers and musea.
  • where is for a large part the visual pleassure in contemporary culture based on?

    On recognition: the more references you can place the more clever you feel as a viewer.
  • what is Pastiche quote?

    Textual and visual qoutation, which merely repat, sheer quoting is the name of the game.
  • what is Bricolage's quote?

    Making do, we have become a cut&paste culture where everyone, can think about and scramble together their clothes and even their identity.
  • What do we mean by the copy has taken over the original design?

    A day after fashion shows in Paris or Milan the photo's are on the internet and six weeks later H&M and zara sell replica's in their shops.
  • What do we mean by the ubiquity of the media turns reality into a simulacrum?

    A copy of a copy. The media do not reflect reality but construct it.
    The media do not represent reality but simulate it.
  • 2 Article lecture fashion and visual culture

    This is a preview. There are 18 more flashcards available for chapter 2
    Show more cards here

  • What is a crucial characteristic of postmodernism?

    the fading distinction between high and low culture.
  • How is Postmodernculture characterised?

    By Bricolage and pastiche: making do, and sheer quoting is the name of the game.
PLEASE KNOW!!! There are just 29 flashcards and notes available for this material. This summary might not be complete. Please search similar or other summaries.

To read further, please click:

Read the full summary
This summary +380.000 other summaries A unique study tool A rehearsal system for this summary Studycoaching with videos
  • Higher grades + faster learning
  • Never study anything twice
  • 100% sure, 100% understanding
Discover Study Smart

Topics related to Summary: Lecture Fashion And Visual Culture