Krauss and Indexicality in Art
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Krauss believes that nonrepresentative art in the 1970s adopted indexicality as its primary principle rather than form.
- A)True
- B)False
- A)As the idea that art is purely representational
- B)As evidence that a work of art is a trace of something
- C)As a technique to manipulate color and shape
- D)As the relationship between abstract and concrete forms
- A)Photographs represent reality through abstraction.
- B)Photographs are a complete representation of an object.
- C)Photographs are a tracing of reality that serve as evidence.
- D)Photographs do not relate to any reality at all.
What does Krauss argue about photographs in relation to reality?
Indexicality in art is the idea that a work's meaning is derived from being a trace of something else.
Indexicality is the idea that a work of art gets its meaning from the evidence that it is a trace of ___.
What is indexicality according to Krauss?
How does Rosalind Krauss differentiate between photography and traditional forms of art?
How does Rosalind Krauss define the concept of indexicality in art?
How does Krauss define indexicality in relation to photographs?
What is indexicality in the context of art?