Deck 19: India, China, and Japan: From Medieval to Modern Times

Question 1

What are the subjects of Richard Wright's Native Son and Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man?

A)The Native-American experience
B)The African-American male
C)The history of African slaves
D)The marginalization of American men

Answer 1

B

Question 2

What is the name given to the kind of art exemplified by Alexander Calder's The Star?

A)ready-made
B)mobile
C)combine
D)collage

Answer 2

B

Question 3

Which of the following was among the most prominent subjects of Andy Warhol's art?

A)celebrities
B)women
C)cities
D)landscapes

Answer 3

A

Question 4

What Swedish artist is known for his oversized sculptures of everyday objects ?

A)Le Corbusier
B)Oldenburg
C)Warhol
D)Kierkegaard

Question 5

Which French writer and thinker 1905-1980)is most directly associated with this existentialism?

A)Camus
B)Descartes
C)Sartre
D)Braque

Question 6

What is the main characteristic of Frank Gehry's Guggenheim Museum Bilbao?

A)Creative use of reinforced concrete
B)Vertical lines with no ornamentation
C)Classical columns and pediments
D)Free-flowing geometric shapes

Question 7

What is the best-known play by Samuel Beckett?

A)Waiting for Godot
B)A Doll's House
C)Louisa Miller
D)Death of a Salesman

Question 8

What type of art is exemplified by Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty?

A)found art
B)ready-made
C)land art
D)combine

Question 9

How do the Bulgarian artists Christo and Jean-Claude create art?

A)They paint murals on public buildings.
B)They cover large areas with cloth.
C)They build sculpture from garbage.
D)They use their bodies in a staged setting.

Question 10

Which disciple of Louis Sullivan was one of the most influential American architects of the twentieth century?

A)Frank Lloyd Wright
B)Philip Johnson
C)Robert Venturi
D)Denise Scott Brown

Question 11

What questions are explored by the Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman in his films?

A)Loss of religious faith and modern despair
B)Sexuality and gender roles
C)Classical antiquity and modern aesthetics
D)Catholicism and sexuality

Question 12

In Bill Viola's The Crossing, what happens to the human figure?

A)It is transformed into light.
B)It is covered in red paint.
C)It is attacked by fire and water
D)It is pixelated into tiny spots of color.

Question 13

What major public outdoor memorial was designed by Maya Ying Lin?

A)Holocaust Memorial
B)The Oklahoma City National Memorial
C)Vietnam Veteran's Memorial
D)Vietnam Women's Memorial

Question 14

What artistic form is Robert Rauschenberg most known for?

A)Self-portraiture
B)Found art
C)Kinetic sculpture
D)Combine painting

Question 15

Which American abstract expressionist is famous for his action paintings?

A)Frankenthaler
B)Pollock
C)Rothko
D)Rauschenburg

Question 16

In the 1940s and 1950s, what city replaced Paris as the center of modern art?

A)New York
B)London
C)Milan
D)Prague

Question 17

What is distinctive about Mark Rothko's paintings?

A)They borrow heavily from Greek art.
B)They arrange figures in pyramidal form.
C)They focus on natural settings.
D)They use large fields of solid color.

Question 18

What contemporary building can be described as "exoskeletal"?

A)The American Center in Paris
B)The Georges Pompidou National Center for Art and Culture
C)The Seagram Building
D)The Guggenheim Museum in New York

Question 19

Who designed the first skyscraper in the United States?

A)Frank Gehry
B)Renzo Piano
C)Louis Sullivan
D)Richard Rogers

Question 20

According to Sartre, what was the purpose of existentialism?

A)To preserve past traditions.
B)To help people live in an absurd world.
C)To create a standard system of ethics.
D)To strengthen people's religious faith.

Question 21

What were the central characteristics and themes of Pop Art? How are these apparent in Andy Warhol's work?

Question 22

What type of non-western music has influenced the work of the minimalist composer Philip Glass?

A)American Indian chant
B)Polynesian percussion and song
C)Ukrainian music written for the Ud
D)Indian tabla and sitar music

Question 23

_______________________ 20th-century philosophy investigating human freedom and responsibility

Question 24

_______________________ Algerian-born French existentialist writer

Question 25

How did the existentialist movement influence the ideas of modern society?

Question 26

_______________________ Russian composer who used traditional musical elements in innovative ways

Question 27

_______________________ term describing the current artistic style in the 21^st century

Question 28

What is aleatoric music?

A)Music that uses real sounds from nature
B)Music created by chance
C)Highly structured compositions
D)Music used specifically for psychological treatment

Question 29

_______________________ painting style that uses large blocks of color

Question 30

What two American poets wrote from a feminist perspective?

A)Kerouac and Ginsberg
B)Wiesel and Beckett
C)Sexton and Plath
D)Updike and Albee

Question 31

What are the origins of Deconstructivist Architecture? How are its principles evident in Frank Gehry's design of the Ray and Maria Stata Center at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ?

Question 32

______________________ Danish existential philosopher 1813-1955)

Question 33

_______________________ art that uses images from mass media and contemporary culture

Question 34

_______________________ term adopted by existentialists to describe the meaninglessness of human existence

Question 35

What two major contemporary composers have continued to work with traditional elements of melody, harmony, and rhythm?

A)Reich and Stockhausen
B)Brittan and Shostakovich
C)Boulez and Glass
D)Weill and Gershwin

Question 36

_______________________ Jewish writer of Night, which was based upon his experiences in a Nazi concentration camp

Question 37

_______________________ works of art that add actual objects to the canvas

Question 38

How does Rachel Whiteread's Memorial to the Victims of the Holocaust at Judenplatz in Vienna 2000)depict the destruction of the Austrian Jewish community? What is the significance of this depiction?

Question 39

What term is applied to the music of Steve Reich, which builds lengthy pieces out of multiple repetitions of simple chords and rhythms?

A)serialism
B)minimalism
C)structuralism
D)aleatorialism

Question 40

How does Pierre Boulez' Second Piano Sonata exemplify the ideal of structuralism? What is the effect of this compositional framework?