Deck 15: Decades of Change

Question 1

Which of the following is most closely associated with a method that involved diluting paint "almost to the consistency of watercolor and then pouring it onto unprimed cotton canvas to achieve giant stains of color that suggest landscape," as seen in The Bay?

A) Helen Frankenthaler
B) Mark Rothko
C) Alexander Calder
D) Joan Mitchell

Answer 1

A

Question 2

Which architect is responsible for the phrase associated with the International style?

A) Frank Lloyd Wright
B) Charles Édouard Jenneret-Gris
C) Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
D) Jeanneret Le Corbusier

Answer 2

C

Question 3

Sartre's existential perspective includes only one certainty:

A) death.
B) inequality.
C) human greed.
D) God.

Answer 3

A

Question 4

During the 1960s,which of the following U.S.cities was considered the center of the civil rights movement?

A) Berkeley, California
B) Birmingham, Alabama
C) Chicago, Illinois
D) New York City, New York

Question 5

Who wrote Slaughterhouse-Five,narrated by a survivor of the Allied fire-bombing of Dresden?

A) Kurt Vonnegut
B) Ralph Ellison
C) Jean-Paul Sartre
D) James Baldwin

Question 6

Whose poems contributed to the development of hip-hop?

A) John-Paul Sartre
B) Aaron Copland
C) Gil Scott-Heron
D) Ralph Ellison

Question 7

Among the following,who is most closely associated with color-field paintings?

A) Helen Frankenthaler
B) Mark Rothko
C) Alexander Calder
D) Joan Mitchell

Question 8

Which of the following artists is most closely associated with a series of paintings of Campbell's Soup cans?

A) Andy Warhol
B) Tom Wesselmann
C) Roy Lichtenstein
D) Claes Oldenburg

Question 9

Which of the following best describes the Beat generation writers' unique narratives?

A) a random and continuous chain of undisciplined thought
B) a narrative that emphasizes the "meaninglessness" of life
C) a directive encouraging change to build strong American industry
D) a statement to reflect the Beat isolationist philosophy

Question 10

The refined austerity of International-style architecture is best described as

A) "Less is more."
B) "There is no meaning, only existence."
C) "separate but equal"
D) "We wanted to make it new . . ."

Question 11

What of the following phrases describes Waiting for Godot and characterizes it as Theater of the Absurd?

A) the promise of action and the realization of no action
B) the promise and articulation of life's theoretical meaning
C) a diatribe of political aggrandizement
D) a promise of social consciousness for equality

Question 12

Which of the following literary pieces includes a scene in which "a valet greets Monsieur Garcin as he enters the room that will be his eternal hell"?

A) Being and Nothingness
B) No Exit
C) The Second Sex
D) The Stranger

Question 13

Tom Stoppard,Edward Albee,and Samuel Beckett wrote plays that are considered "Absurdist" productions.Which of the following best describes the Theater of the Absurd?

A) Its central theme was the meaningless of existence.
B) It explored inequality and the disenfranchisement of minority voices.
C) It explored the random quality of life, as it is occurring.
D) It drew attention to the daily struggle to exist amid social and political upheaval.

Question 14

The Beat generation is best described as

A) a generation rebelling against the conformity of the postwar American status quo.
B) a generation aware of their own ability to separate from the political process and form independent political affiliations.
C) a generation motivated to engage commercially and promote industry.
D) a generation that embraced looking back, especially to prewar styles, reflecting "nostalgia" in the clothes, art, and sculpture of an earlier era.

Question 15

What is the most famous line from Sartre's play No Exit?

A) Hell is other people.
B) Existence precedes essence.
C) Life requires a leap of faith.
D) To be is to do.

Question 16

Which of the following artists is most closely associated with Ben Day dots,which he used to create enlarged comic strips?

A) Andy Warhol
B) Tom Wesselmann
C) Roy Lichtenstein
D) Claes Oldenburg

Question 17

Who wrote Waiting for Godot,which features two characters,Vladimir and Estragon,waiting and doing nothing?

A) Edward Albee
B) Joseph Heller
C) Tom Stoppard
D) Samuel Beckett

Question 18

Which phrase was the basic premise of John-Paul Sartre's existentialism?

A) The real is the rational and the rational is the real.
B) If there is no God, then everything is permitted.
C) Existence precedes essence.
D) In the beginning was the deed.

Question 19

Which painter is most associated with "action painting"?

A) Arshile Gorky
B) Willem de Kooning
C) Jackson Pollock
D) Man Ray

Question 20

The term "Pop Art" came to refer to art that reflects

A) the political agenda of the industrial state.
B) consumer culture as its theme.
C) the dynamic wave of social protest movements.
D) the existential angst of the postwar era.

Question 21

Describe Jackson Pollock's method for creating an "action painting."

Question 22

Who was instrumental in introducing graffiti to the art world?

A) Jean-Paul Sartre
B) Gil Scott-Heron
C) Jean-Michel Basquiat
D) Leonard Bernstein

Question 23

What might have been the original appeal of the Theater of the Absurd as presented in Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot?

Question 24

Who collaborated with Vlado Milunić on the Rasin Building?

A) Claude-Nicolas Ledoux
B) Robert Venturi
C) Bugsy Siegel
D) Frank Gehry

Question 25

Discuss the relationship between Pop Art and its commercial sources.

Question 26

Who is the author of "Child of the Americas," which reflects on the distinctive culture group inside the United States and was created by North Americans of Hispanic descent?

A) Alejo Carpentier
B) Aurora Levins Morales
C) Gabriel García Marquéz
D) Isabel Allende

Question 27

Discuss some of the prominent themes of Sartre's existentialism.

Question 28

Which of the following events solidified moderate white support for the civil rights movement?

A) the bombing of a Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama
B) the arrest of six hundred youth marchers in downtown Birmingham
C) the incarceration of Reverend Martin Luther King
D) the boycott of Alabama stores and markets

Question 29

Who combines training in miniature painting with contemporary art styles to create such works as Pleasure Pillars?

A) Shirin Neshat
B) Zhang Huan
C) Tahereh Saffarzadeh
D) Shahzia Sikander

Question 30

Summarize the Guerrilla Girls' intentions and their methods for achieving them.