Deck 12: Diversity in Contemporary Life

Question 1

In Judy Chicago's sculptural installation, The Dinner Party the individual place settings were set for __________.

A) apostles of Jesus
B) women who had been abused
C) mythological figures
D) a coven of witches
E) women Chicago considered the most important women in Western art and history

Answer 1

E

Question 2

Lisa Fifield has painted a large number of canvases devoted to the traditions and beliefs of __________ Americans.

A) Chinese
B) Latin
C) Native
D) African
E) European

Answer 2

C

Question 3

__________ achieved notoriety as "Samo," a grafitti artist writing on walls in Soho and Tribeca.

A) Judith F. Baca
B) Betye Saar
C) Roy Licthenstein
D) Jean-Michel Basquiat
E) Andy Warhol

Answer 3

D

Question 4

The Guerrilla Girls was a groundbreaking play of the 1970s.

Question 5

Leslie Marmon Silko's __________ "reflects the intersection of the spiritual and material worlds, as well as connections between history and personal experience."

A) The Bluest Eye
B) Storyteller
C) Silent Dancing
D) The Way to Rainy Mountain
E) "When We Dead Awaken: Writing as Re-Vision"

Question 6

In Charles the First Jean-Michel Basquiat pays homage to __________.

A) Charlie Parker
B) Charles DeGaulle
C) Prince Charles
D) Charles I of England
E) Charles Kuralt

Question 7

The stories of Maxine Hong Kingston's Woman Warrior derive from the Chinese "talk story," a Cantonese tradition that is __________.

A) only about 75 years old
B) taken from Korean tradition
C) kept alive mainly by men
D) kept alive mainly by women
E) performed in open-air markets

Question 8

Globalization refers to the tendency in contemporary societies toward an increasing pluralism.

Question 9

Throughout the 1960s and into the 1970s, American society underwent a shift in attitude and structure largely as a result of three major catalysts for change; __________ is not one of them.

A) the Vietnam War
B) the Women's Movement
C) the Korean War
D) the Civil Rights Movement
E) none of the above

Question 10

__________ is the chief practitioner of Poststructuralism.

A) Roland Barthes
B) Jacques Derrida
C) Søren Kierkegaard
D) Jean-Paul Sartre
E) Simone de Beauvoir

Question 11

Adrienne Rich is an important spokesperson for the __________.

A) Native American peoples
B) Vietnam veterans
C) feminist consciousness
D) civil rights movement
E) workers' movement

Question 12

The approach to culture called Structuralism was developed by __________.

A) Roland Barthes
B) Jacques Derrida
C) Jean-Paul Sartre
D) Søren Kierkegaard
E) Emanuel Kant

Question 13

__________ is the artist directing and facilitating the Great Wall of Los Angeles begun in 1976.

A) Wen-Ying Tsai
B) Judith F. Baca
C) Mariko Mori
D) Cindy Sherman
E) Andy Warhol

Question 14

__________ is the focus of the Guerilla Girls.

A) The gender inequities in the art scene
B) The nudity of female art figures
C) The need for more minority representation in art gallery attendance
D) The need to make art galleries handicapped accessible
E) both A and C

Question 15

The Great Wall of Los Angeles was begun in 1982.

Question 16

Arguably, __________ has had the greatest impact on the public's opinion of women in the arts.

A) Marisol
B) Eleanor Antin
C) Betye Saar
D) Cindy Sherman
E) Judy Chicago

Question 17

Lisa Fifield's Ghost Dancers Ascending is part of a series of canvases based on the massacre at Wounded Knee.

Question 18

Vaclav Havel was the first president of the post-Soviet Czech Republic.

Question 19

Eleanor Antin is known for her __________.

A) series of personae
B) sculptural installations
C) mural paintings
D) photographic self-portraits
E) novels and plays

Question 20

__________ photographed herself in a variety of "self-portraits," whose variety and artificiality serve to announce that the "self" is a fictionalized construction.

A) Judy Chicago
B) Cindy Sherman
C) Lisa Fifield
D) Eleanor Antin
E) Susan Rothenberg

Question 21

What did the Magicians of the Earth exhibition of 1989 underscore about globalization and world art?

Question 22

What has been the single most important development in the art world in the last three decades
and why?

Question 23

List as many aspects of Postmodernism as possible.

Question 24

M.Scott Momaday received a Pulitzer Prize for his novel House Made of Dawn.

Question 25

Name the three catalysts for change that occurred during the 1960s and 1970s.

Question 26

Explore the participation of recognition of female artists in the past twenty years in the United States.

Question 27

What is meant by the term "Cyborg Surrealism," what artist do Benton and DiYanni associate the term with, and why?

Question 28

Define "Deconstruction" and give an example of its use.

Question 29

Postmodernism is a celebration and continuation of the tenets of Modernism.

Question 30

What are the four identities that Andreas Huyssen demarcated?

Question 31

What is "Semiotics"?

Question 32

List the key differences between western and non-western art as delineated by Benton and DiYanni.
Essay

Question 33

What are the pros and cons of globalization?

Question 34

The work of Adrienne Rich is a paradigm of the feminist backlash.

Question 35

What function does identity play in art and art criticism in the late twentieth-century? Be sure to examine particular works to prove the point.