Exam 2: Viewers Make Meaning

African-American artist Kara Walker creates large, black-and-white silhouettes that depict black people as age old racist stereotypes. This tactic is part of Walker's ____________ of meaning to address the unequal power relations that exist between those who produce dominant popular culture and those who consume it.

Where would a snow globe fall on James Clifford's map of the Art-Culture System?

How has the study of aesthetics shifted focus since the early twentieth century?

What is the traditional meaning of the term "interpellation"?

Some artists have formed ____________ to critique the economy and culture of the fine artist as creative genius and the gallery system in which fine art acquires value.

Traditionally associated with domesticity, safety pins were appropriated by the 1970s punk movement as a form of decoration that signaled a refusal to participate in mainstream domestic culture and disdain for the dreary norms of everyday consumer culture. Another term for this type of signifying practice is ____________.