1.A particular society at a particular time and place; "early Mayan civilization" 2.The tastes in art and manners that are favored by a social group: all the knowledge and values shared by a society 3.Acculturation: (Biology) the growing of microorganisms in a nutrient medium 5.Polish: a highly developed state of perfection; having a flawless or impeccable quality; "they performed with great polish"; wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn Culture
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1.A particular society at a particular time and place; "early Mayan civilization"
2.The tastes in art and manners that are favored by a social group: all the knowledge and values shared by a society
3.Acculturation: (Biology) the growing of microorganisms in a nutrient medium
5.Polish: a highly developed state of perfection; having a flawless or impeccable quality; "they performed with great polish"; wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
6. The accumulated habits, attitudes, and beliefs of a group of people that define for them their general behavior and way of life; the total set of learned activities of a people.
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• Visual culture encourages reflection on the differences between art and non-art, visual and verbal signs, and the ratios between different sensory and semiotic modes.
Visual culture entails a meditation on blindness, the invisible, the unseen, the unstable, and the overlooked; also on deafness and the invisible language of gesture; it also compels attention to the tactile, the auditory, a haptic, and the phenomenon of synesthesia.
Visual culture is not limited to the study of images or media, but extends to everyday practices of seeing and showing, especially those that we take to be immediate or on mediated. It is less concerned with the meaning of images than with their lives and loves.
There are no visual media. All media are mixed media, with varying ratios of sense & types.
The disembodied image and the embodied artifact are permanent elements in the dialectics of visual culture. Images are to pictures and works of art as species are to specimens in biology
We do not live in a uniquely visual era. The visual or pictorial turn is a recurring trope that displaces moral and political panic onto images and so-called visual media. Images are convenient scapegoats, and the offensive eye is ritually plucked out by ruthless critique.
Visual culture is the visual construction of the social, not just the social construction of vision. The question of visual nature is therefore a central and unavoidable issue, along with the role of animals as images and spectators
The political task of visual culture is to perform critique without the comforts of iconoclasm.
Definition of a sign
• Something that stands to someone for something in some respect or capacity.