nswer any five of the following questions (4ma
1. Briefly Explain about Early Civilization
2. What are the 3 cultures of the Aegean?
3. Briefly explain "Visual Culture'
4. Explain THE MIND'S EYE
5. What is PERCEPTION
6. What do you mean by 'ways of seeing
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Answer:
1 Civilization describes a complex way of life that came about as people began to develop networks of urban settlements. The earliest civilizations developed between 4000 and 3000 BCE, when the rise of agriculture and trade allowed people to have surplus food and economic stability.
2 Aegean civilization is a general term for the Bronze Age civilizations of Greece around the Aegean Sea. There are three distinct but3 communicating and interacting geographic regions covered by this term: Crete, the Cyclades and the Greek mainland.
3 She says, “Visual culture works towards a social theory of visuality, focusing on questions of what is made visible, who sees what, how seeing, knowing and power are interrelated. It examines the act of seeing as a product of the tensions between external images or objects, and internal thought processes.”
4 the mental faculty of conceiving imaginary or recollected scenes used her mind's eye to create the story's setting also : the mental picture so conceived.
5 Perception is the organization, identification, and interpretation of sensory information in order to represent and understand the presented information or environment. All perception involves signals that go through the nervous system, which in turn result from physical or chemical stimulation of the sensory system.
6 In "Ways of Seeing" Berger claims that the representations of men and women in visual culture entice different "gazes", different ways in which they are looked at, with men having the legitimization of examining women, and women – also examine women