Deck 29: Innovation, Continuity, and Globalization

Question 1

In what city was a museum indicted for exhibiting Mapplethorpe's photographs?

A)Cleveland
B)Cincinnati
C)Chicago
D)Washington,D.C.
E)Philadelphia

Answer 1

B

Question 2

Which artist is correctly matched with his or her work?

A) The Christos -- Over the River
B) Gilbert and George -- Williamsburg Bridge
C) Frank Gehry -- the Whitney Museum
D) Buckminster Fuller -- Lloyd's Building
E) I.M. Pei -- Geodesic Domes

Answer 2

A

Question 3

Gilbert and George described themselves as

A) performance artists
B) impresarios
C) video artists
D) living sculptures

Answer 3

D

Question 4

Which structure is incorrectly matched with its location?

A) The Whitney Museum -- New York City
B) Piazza d'Italia -- New Orleans
C) Lloyd's Building -- London
D) Glass pyramid -- Cairo
E) The Frederick R. Wiseman Museum -- Minneapolis

Question 5

The artist whose imagery suggests graffiti is

A) Sherman
B) Basquiat
C) Kiefer
D) Rothenberg
E) Jaudon

Question 6

Match the example of environmental art with its location.

A) Spiral Jetty -- Oregon
B) Blue Umbrellas -- California
C) Long Division -- New York City
D) Stone Enclosure. Rock Rings -- Washington,D.C.

Question 7

Which least matches?

A) Hanson's Artist with Ladder -- Polykleitos' Spearbearer
B) Close's 1997 Self-Portrait -- Mosaics
C) Graves' Morphose -- Surrealism
D) Estes' Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum -- the Robie House

Question 8

The artist who developed a philosophy of cybernetics is

A) Christo
B) Nauman
C) Lin
D) Paik
E) Kiefer

Question 9

Nauman prefers Man Ray to Duchamp because

A) Man Ray is a greater artist
B) Man Ray is more unreasonable
C) Man Ray is more original
D) Man Ray is more Classical
E) Man Ray is a photographer

Question 10

The large central space around which the new Lloyd's building was wrapped is the

A) atrium
B) courtyard
C) narthex
D) nave

Question 11

NEA stands for

A) National Esthetic Association
B) National Endowment of Aesthetics
C) National Endowment for the Arts
D) National Efforts for Artists

Question 12

What is a fullerene?

A) a building by Fuller
B) a unit of a geodesic dome
C) a Dymaxion
D) a molecule
E) an atom

Question 13

Who of the following is not an environmental artist?

A) Smithson
B) Holt
C) the Christos
D) Smith

Question 14

Which is least true of Chuck Close's work?

A) he relies on photography
B) his main subject is portraiture
C) his favorite paint is acrylic
D) his most usual viewpoint is the close-up

Question 15

Which category best matches the artist?

A) Smith -- Body Art
B) Basquiat -- landscape
C) Kiefer -- Feminism
D) Paik -- environmental art

Question 16

Which is least true of the Christos?

A) they are Conceptual artists
B) they recycle their materials
C) they accept no financial patronage
D) they raise money by selling drawings, collages and models

Question 17

Who was a graduate of the Bauhaus?

A) Fuller
B) Breuer
C) Pei
D) Rothenberg
E) Nauman

Question 18

Sherman's self-portrait as the Fornarina differs from the Fornarina in being

A) more accurate because it is a photograph
B) more idealized
C) satirical
D) anti-women

Question 19

Which is not a reference in the iconography of The Dinner Party?

A) Hatshepsut
B) Virginia Woolf
C) The Last Supper
D) Stieglitz
E) O'Keeffe

Question 20

Match the author with the correct work.

A) Norman Mailer -- The Right Stuff
B) Tom Wolfe -- The Unbearable Lightness of Being
C) Toni Morrison -- Beloved
D) Alice Walker -- Glengarry Glen Ross