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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Abstract expressionism emphasizes __________. | Subjective Emotions |
| 2. __________ is the idea that beliefs must be judged within their own social context . | Cultural Relativism |
| 3. Color-field painting is associated with the artist __________. | Mark Rothko |
| 4. __________ used everyday objects as models for his sculpture. | Claes Oldenburg |
| 5. The sculptor __________ is known for thin, elongated human figures that suggest emotional torture and isolation. | Alberto Giacometti |
| 6. Donald Judd's Untitled is most concerned with __________. | open-ended meaning |
| 7. Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty was most concerned with the __________. | ephemeral |
| 8. Judy Pfaff's Dragon is an example of __________. | Installation |
| 9. Julian Bleecker's WiFI Bedouin is an example of __________. | New Media |
| 10. __________ documented Native American life in his watercolor paintings. | Harrison Begay |
| 11. Architecture that stretches engineering to the limits of building materials is called __________ architecture. | spansion |
| 12. Postmodern architecture focuses on meaning and symbolism, and embraces __________. | history |
| 13. The work of __________ required an advanced aerospace computer in order to be built. | Frank Gehry |
| 14. The common ground of twentieth century architecture could be described as __________. | Rectangularization |
| 15. The plays of Tennessee Williams are classified as __________. | Modern Realism |
| 16. Tom Stoppard's play The Coast of Utopia deals with the intellectual forebears of the __________. | Russian Revolution |
| 17. New York's It's Alright to be a Woman Theatre is an example of __________ theatre. | alternative social |
| 18. The central character of Philip Glass's opera Akhnaten is a(n) __________ | Egyptian Pharaoh |
| 19. Musique actuelle is characterized by a tendency toward __________. | humor |
| 20. The American composer Ned Rorem is associated with __________. | traditionalism |
| 21. __________ is the musician who developed bebop. | Charlie "Bird" Parker |
| 22. "Fusion" is characterized by __________. | a combination of rock and jazz elements |
| 23. Postmodernist writers tend to view language as __________. | a tool for dealing with philosophical origins |
| 24. Vladimir Nabokov's __________ parodies literary scholarship. | Pale Fire |
| 25. Sylvia Plath is associated with __________ poetry. | Confessional |
| 26. The novels of __________ are particularly concerned with the rights of African-Americans and women. | Alice Walker |
| 27. Roberto Rossellini's film Rome, Open City helped develop a style of film known as __________. | neo-realism |
| 28. The use of surprisingly diverse media, such as film, video, sculpture, and installation is a trademark of the director __________. | Beth B |
| 29. __________ wrote the novel Beloved, which tells the story of Sethe, a former slave, and the spirit of her dead child, named Beloved. | Toni Morrison |
| 30. House Made of Dawn, a novel dealing with the experiences of a Tano Indian named Abel after serving in World War II, was written by __________. | N. Scott Momaday |
| . Nam June Paik's Danger Music for Dick Higgins was never intended to be played. | True |
| 2. Postmodernism embraces metanarratives. | False |
| 3. Modernism ended in 1945 with the closing of World War II. | True |
| 4. Pop art is universally considered critical of consumer culture. | False |
| 5. The plays of Arthur Miller are representative of postmodern theatre. | False |
| 6. Cuban-American theatre has dealt with the topics of exile and nostalgia. | True |
| 7. Garland Anderson's 1925 Appearances was the first black play to open on Broadway. | True |
| 8. Some examples of Native American ritual performance and theatre last for a hundred hours. | True |
| 9. Modernism, Postmodernism, Pluralism, and Traditional are each separate, bounded categories of postwar music. | False |
| 10. Ballet does not fit easily into categories like modern, postmodern, or traditional. | True |
| 11. Reading concrete poetry aloud misses the point; it relies on visual imagery. | True |
| 1. European modernist art was first exhibited in the United States at __________. | the Armory Show |
| 2. __________ was concerned with documenting the emergence of African-American identity. | Aaron Douglas |
| 3. The worldview which holds that no ethical standards exist, knowledge is impossible, and all action is baseless is called __________. | Nihilism |
| 4. The artist who made paintings criticizing the oppression of Indians by Europeans was __________. | Diego Rivera |
| 5. The architect best known for his Falling Water (Kaufmann House) is __________. | Frank Lloyd Wright |
| 6. The __________ represents a conscious attempt to integrate all the arts into a unified statement. | Bauhaus |
| 7. Architectural exteriors completely devoid of ornamentation were typical of the work of __________. | Walter Gropius and Adolph Meyer |
| 8. Bertolt Brecht is best known for his __________. | epic theatre |
| 9. The plays of Luigi Pirandello are associated with __________. | absurdism |
| 10. The music of Paul Hindemath is almost __________. | atonal |
| 12. The composer who integrated American idioms, including jazz, Mexican folk songs, and Shaker hymns into his compositions is __________. | Aaron Copland |
| 13. Martha Graham is probably the most influential figure in modern __________. | dance |
| 14. T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land marks an important point in modern __________. | literature |
| 15. A strong faith in "natural" (and "sexual") things as a means of redemption for modern society characterizes the work of __________. | D.H. Lawrence |
| 16. __________ sought to shock the public and destroy the structures of language. | Tristan Tzara |
| 17. The character "Jesse B. Simple" is an invention of the poet __________. | Langston Hughes |
| 18. The technique that was famously employed in the films of Sergei Eisenstein is called __________. | montage |
| 19. __________ is an important example of social commentary in film. | Citizen Kane |
| 20. __________ is the author of the "Surrealist Manifesto." | André Breton |
| 21. The musical composition __________ critically reflected on machines, mechanized production, and dehumanization. | Steel Step |
| 22. Pirandello's Six Characters in Search of an Author is an example of __________. | absurdism |
| 23. The abstract works of Joan Miró are an example of __________. | surrealism |
| 24. The novels of __________, set in the rural South, typically revolve around human alienation and an individual's relationship with God. | Flannery O'Connor |
| 25. The literary movement __________, exemplified by the work of Ezra Pound, grew out of symbolism but used concrete language, modern subject matter, and avoided mystical or romantic themes. | imagism |
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