Deck 14: Entertainment and Visual Culture

Question 1

In 1927, what was added to motion pictures?

A)Color
B)Music
C)Sound
D)The studio star system

Answer 1

C

Question 2

Which work, located in the middle of Manhattan in New York City and designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, is considered a milestone in American landscape architecture?

A)Falling Water
B)Spiral Jetty
C)National September 11 Memorial and Museum
D)Central Park

Answer 2

D

Question 3

What did the North American Sioux Open Circle Dance celebrate?

A)The harvest
B)Springtime
C)The first day of summer
D)The reign of their chief

Answer 3

B

Question 4

In the nineteenth century, ornate museums and theaters were often built to resemble which kind of building?

A)Renaissance palace
B)Roman amphitheater
C)Greek temple
D)Greek skene

Question 5

What is Deconstructivist architecture usually missing?

A)Spatial expansiveness
B)Abstract form
C)A unified whole
D)Core structure

Question 6

What did bearded bulls symbolize in the ancient city of Ur?

A)Gilgamesh
B)A Lamassu
C)Royalty
D)The astrological sign Taurus

Question 7

Which is a visual art form that incorporates live action and mixed media and is presented before a live audience?

A)Environmental Art
B)Earthworks
C)Performance Art
D)Pop Art

Question 8

Which kind of object, in which a series of drawn images seem to move as book pages are viewed rapidly, was the origin of animation?

A)Cartoons
B)Stereoscopes
C)Comic books
D)Flip books

Question 9

What was the Classical Greek ideal shape for a theater, such as the one at Epidauros?

A)Circle
B)Rectangle
C)Triangle
D)Octagon

Question 10

Which kind of architecture, rooted in the work of Frank Lloyd Wright, often results in designs that resemble "functional sculpture"?

A)International
B)Organic
C)Rococo
D)Post-modern

Question 11

As part of which god's worship did Western theater begin?

A)Dionysos
B)Apollo
C)Zeus
D)Hathor

Question 12

What does the Japanese term Bunraku translate to?

A)Doll drama
B)Clay pottery
C)Flower walk
D)Short poetry

Question 13

Which process is a relatively early form of animation that uses clay sculptures that are photographed while they are being moved in tiny increments?

A)Computer animation
B)Stop motion animation
C)Traditional animation
D)Claymation

Question 14

What element do Frank Gehry's architectural works usually lack?

A)Symmetry
B)Three-dimensionality
C)Foundations
D)An orientation to their specific site

Question 15

Which is the academic discipline that investigates visual media and its effect on

A)Visual culture
B)Iconography
C)Semiotics
D)Phenomenology

Question 16

Which is an example of Roman imperial baths, which included libraries, art galleries, restaurants, bars, and gymnasiums?

A)Baths of Constantine
B)Baths of Caracalla
C)Baths of Augustus
D)Baths of Nero

Question 17

Which contemporary game does Maya ritualistic ball sport share similarities with?

A)Cricket
B)Soccer
C)Baseball
D)Volleyball

Question 18

What were the first examples of performance art called?

A)Mixed media
B)Installation
C)Montage
D)Happenings

Question 19

Which was an influence on the posters of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec?

A)Picasso's early Cubist works
B)Chinese scroll painting
C)Japanese prints
D)Flemish still life painting

Question 20

The Sydney Opera House owes a stylistic debt to which architect?

A)Andrea Palladio
B)Joern Utzon
C)Solomon Guggenheim
D)Polykleitos

Question 21

​ Judith Leyster's Boy Playing a Flute shows which aspect of the society in which it was painted?

A)The way music was enjoyed throughout society, including in middle-class homes
B)The way genre painting was used to make a moral commentary on the frivolity of music
C)The fact that global trade networks of the Dutch Republic brought new and exotic objects into Dutch households
D)The use of young servants to perform music in a society with rigid hierarchies

Question 22

​ What is Hayao Miyazaki's Spirited Away ?

A)A ukiyo-e print
B)A Bunraku performance
C)An animated movie
D)Kabuki theater

Question 23

Which was filmed before a live audience?

A)Maria Candelaria (Xochimilco)
B)Spirited Away
C)I Love Lucy
D)Handspring, a Flying Pigeon Interfering, June 26, 1885

Question 24

What role did Robert Rauschenberg have in the creation of Summerspace ?

A)He designed the puppets that danced as four animals.
B)He created the lighting design, emphasizing the play's dramatic intensity.
C)He painted the audience members so that they could participate in the work.
D)He designed its spotted costumes, which diffused the focus on any single element of the dance.

Question 25

How was Roman engineering used in the imperial baths?

A)The skene produced the energy that heated the water.
B)The aquaduct system brought water and heated air to warm the rooms.
C)A Doric entablature decorated the exterior.
D)Mosaics decorated the interior walls with scenes of triumphs.

Question 26

Which includes an example of an idealized image of an athlete?

A)Toulouse-Lautrec's Jane Avril
B)The Minoan Bull Jumping fresco
C)Japanese Bunraku
D)The production Summerspace

Question 27

​ Where does this lyre from the tomb of Queen Puabi come from?

A)Mali
B)Japan
C)Egypt
D)Mesopotamia

Question 28

​ What was the Colosseum in Rome used for?

A)Ceremonial games in which the players deflected a hard ball with their bodies
B)Battles to the death between humans and animals, often with elaborate staging
C)Performances of epic poetry by Homer
D)Political assemblies in which Roman senators lobbied the population of Rome for support

Question 29

​ Which statement is true of the Kanaga Masked Dancers ?

A)The dancers from Mali use the Kanaga masks to enhance their harvest.
B)The masks represent animal spirits of the current chieftans.
C)The Dogon dancers express ideas about death.
D)This Dogon ritual is performed by a group of women who have given birth within the prior five years.