Understanding Visual Culture assessment 1 Part A

please relate to the tutorial content in the attachments
Short Answer Questions for Part A, Assessment 1.
PART A SHORT ANSWER QUESTIONS 20%.
110 words each question
Referencing style: Chicago style
Please include a Bibliography as well as a link for the image in question 7.
You MUST answer all 10 questions
1. What is being represented in George Lambert’s Across the Black Soil Plains?
2. What is being represented in Grace Cossington Smith’s The Curve of the Bridge?
3. What is revealed by the discrepancy in dates of the works of Australian modernist women artists i. e when they were painted and when they were acquired by the Art

Gallery of N.S.W Trustees or by other means?
4. What is representation?
5. What is the value of context’ when understanding what is being represented?
6. Why are images powerful?
7. Using one example (include an image to make clear your explanation) , and the work of Barthes, as well as your Sturken & Cartwright reading, explain why

photographic truth’ is now regarded as a myth. (Sturken, Marita and Lisa Cartwright, Practices of Looking: An Introduction to Visual Culture (Oxford: Oxford

University Press, 2009).

8. What role does an images punctum’ and studium’ play in representation?
9. What is Stuart Hall’s understanding of the relationship between representation and language? ( Hall, Stuart, Representation, Meaning and Language’, Representation:

Cultural Representations and Signifying Practices (London: Sage Publications, 1997), pp. 15€“30)

10. Using the week 4 Stuart Hall reading, define contemporary understanding of what the word culture’ means. Hall, Stuart, Representation, Meaning and Language’,

Representation: Cultural Representations and Signifying Practices (London: Sage Publications, 1997), pp. 15€“30)