Exam 4: Turning Worlds Into Images

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Because of the viewer's knowledge, the absence of Joseph and the Saints in a 15th century painting would be an example of the ___________.

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In what way does William Kentridge's art make "the process of drawing itself" visible?

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Hypothetical properties of particles are considered to be outside the field of representation, and are thus ______________.

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Thomas Weiskel stated that "a humanist sublime is ________________."

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Photons and electrons are known as equations, making them _______________.

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The insufficiency of visualization as a universalizing notion is best shown by practices of _______.

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Which word did Aristotle use to define what we now call "imagination"?

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_______of the non-visual can be potentially misleading and unhelpful.

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Sound spectrograms are an example of the strategy of ___________________.

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Which is one of the few visible properties of particles in particle physics?

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Discuss why the link between visualization and scientific method is so problematic.

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Which one of these is NOT one of the four positions found in Jacques Derrida's The Truth in Painting?

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Which of the five claims for visualization are most important for science?

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Current textbooks warn of illustrations inability to adequately represent subjects in quantum mechanics.

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There are signs of a new visually oriented mathematics in the fields of _______.

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In the 15th and 16th centuries, a goal in much of art was to create a new nature that possibly surpassed the original.

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The neuro-histologist _______ favored hand-drawn visualizations of microscopic images, allowing for his judgement to intervene.

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In Immanuel Kant's Meditations on First Philosophy, he distinguishes between imagination and "pure intellection."

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Which 17th century figure stated that "un picture ita visio" (vision is like painting)?

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Which of the following is an example of the splendor in a painting?

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