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• 1 lecture fashion and visual culture

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• 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

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• 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.