Deck 30: The Postmodern Era: Art Since 1980

Question 1

Which photographer is interested in revealing a viewer's participation in determining meaning in her works?

A) Cindy Sherman
B) Margaret Cameron
C) Dorothea Lange
D) Margaret Bourke-White

Answer 1

A

Question 2

Which installation artist often evokes themes of his Russian heritage?

A) Kabakov
B) Polke
C) Kiefer
D) Gehry

Answer 2

A

Question 3

Which photographer seems to be making a still from a grade B movie?

A) Kiefer
B) Graves
C) Gehry
D) Sherman

Answer 3

D

Question 4

Which conceptual artist has used billboards as an art medium?

A) Gehry
B) Cai
C) Puryear
D) Gonzalez-Torres

Question 5

Frank Gehry designed what kind of building for Bilbao, Spain?

A) Museum
B) corporate headquarters
C) public services building
D) war memorial

Question 6

Whose work often incorporates explosives, especially fireworks?

A) Gehry
B) Cai
C) Puryear
D) Smith

Question 7

The work of Fred Wilson subverts traditional museum installations by:

A) By juxtaposing objects not usually seen together
B) By writing new labels for the works in the gallery
C) By recording subversive commentary for the audio tours
D) By painting museum installations in a radical style

Question 8

The term Postmodernism was first coined by French philosophers Jacques Derrida and

A) Jean Baudrillard
B) André Breton
C) Charles Baudelaire
D) Denis Diderot

Question 9

Who often incorporates body fluids or deteriorating bodies?

A) Cai
B) Murray
C) Smith
D) Puryear

Question 10

Who designs very sculptural architecture with organic, free-flowing forms?

A) Mies van der Rohe
B) Graves
C) Gehry
D) Sherman

Question 11

The architect who in a book called for a new style that rejected the cold, abstract Modernist International Style and was referential was:

A) Robert Venturi
B) Maya Lin
C) Michael Graves
D) Richard Rogers

Question 12

Which is NOT characteristic of Postmodernism?

A) It often adopts elements from historical styles
B) It often combines several historical styles
C) It often parodies styles whimsically
D) It shares a decorative kinship with High Modern

Question 13

Art historians have named the period since 1980:

A) Postmodern
B) Ultra Modern
C) Continued Mondern
D) Modern Revival

Question 14

The feminist group of artists who spotlight the marginalization of women artist is known as the:

A) Guerilla Girls
B) Chimp Chicks
C) She Said, She Said
D) Museum Miners

Question 15

Postmodern artists generally avoid conceptual questions in their work.
Answer : False

Question 16

Michael Graves' Public Service Building in Portland appropriates motifs from which of the following styles?

A) Renaissance
B) Baroque
C) Byzantine
D) Greek

Question 17

Maya Lin was a student in the architecture program at Yale University before receiving the commission for the:

A) Vietnam Veterans Memorial
B) Pompidou Centre
C) Guggenheim museum
D) Public Services Building

Question 18

Anselm Kiefer evokes aspects of the history Germany in his paintings.

Question 19

Which painter often evokes German history?

A) Kiefer
B) Stirling
C) Gehry
D) Gropius

Question 20

Personal experience is often validated and celebrated in Postmodern art.

Question 21

What are the influences in Gehry's Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao?

Question 22

What influences, aesthetic and structural, are visible in Michael Graves' Public Services Building in Portland?

Question 23

Discuss the new media of the last 20 years. What media are being used? In what ways can these art forms address issues and ideas differently?

Question 24

How is war remembered in Maya Lin's Vietnam Veterans Memorial? How is the subject of war treated differently in this work than in other works in the history of art?

Question 25

Compare the Postmodern architecture of Graves, both aesthetically and structurally, to the High Modern architecture of Mies van der Rohe.

Question 26

Describe the social and artistic forces behind Basquiat's painting.

Question 27

Compare and contrast Rogers and Piano's Centre National d'Art et Culture Georges Pompidou and Gehry's Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao as examples of museum architecture.

Question 28

Cai Guo-Qiang has produced works that he intends even for an audience of extraterrestials.

Question 29

Postmodern art has continued the dominance of New York in the art world.