Phil quiz 7

True/False: Cultural appropriation, in every instance, is necessarily bad.

False

True/False: If a movie passes the Bechdel test, then it is a feminist film and not problematic.

False

True/False: James O. Young argues that if an act of cultural appropriation is profoundly offensive, then it is wrong.

True

Q. What was one of the problems with justifying changing traditionally non-white characters into white characters by appealing to the need to have marketable stars as leads? a. Because most roles are for white characters, it makes it incredibly difficult for non-white actors to attain the level of "fame" that is the supposed driving factor for such casting decisions. b. The monetary performance of a film is separate from the moral and aesthetic merit the film displays. c. Because sometimes movies change white characters to non-white characters. d. It only accounts for domestic box office numbers as opposed to international sales figures.

a. Because most roles are for white characters, it makes it incredibly difficult for non-white actors to attain the level of "fame" that is the supposed driving factor for such casting decisions.

Q. Why did Nochlin think that there were no great women artists? a. Social practices and institutions led to exclusion b. Biology c. Women lacked "genius" d. She didn't. She argued that there were many great female artists throughout history.

a. Social practices and institutions led to exclusion

Q. According to Young, ______________________ offense occurs when the offense violates appropriate norms of conduct. a. reasonable b. unseasonable c. warranted d. unwarranted

a. reasonable

Q. _________________________ appropriation occurs when an idea is reused that was originally expressed by an author from another culture. a. Style b. Content c. Subject d. Motif

b. Content

Q. Which of the following were historically considered the "higher" senses? a. Smell b. Hearing c. Sight d. Touch e. Taste

b. Hearing c. Sight

Q. _________________________ appropriation occurs when an artist is influenced by the works of another culture, but without their new works being in the same style. a. Content b. Motif c. Style d. Subject

b. Motif

Q. _________________________ appropriation occurs when an artist depicts another's culture while being an outsider to that culture. a. Style b. Subject c. Content d. Motif

b. Subject

Q. One issue highlighted in this chapter about tying aesthetic judgments to the intellect and framing them as "general" or "universal" can be problematic because __________________________________. a. you do not need an art degree to produce commercially viable art b. it ignores that the default society views can be biased to the culturally dominant demographic c. people can disagree so it is impossible for aesthetic judgment to be objective d. we have only experienced art on Earth, so how can judgments really be 'universal'

b. it ignores that the default society views can be biased to the culturally dominant demographic

Q. Freuh argues that by focusing only on the "higher" senses and relegating art criticism to the domain of the traditionally masculine intellect, we are missing out on _______________________________ . a. abstract art that has no grand meaning and thus cannot be intellectualized b. art that appeals to our baser instincts and desires. c. the spontaneous knowing of intuition which is marked by sensory experience and emotional response d. the female perspective due to the fact that it was taken for fact that non-males could not have "genius".

c. the spontaneous knowing of intuition which is marked by sensory experience and emotional response

Q. _________________________ appropriation occurs when someone takes a stylistic form that was born out of a culture of which are not a part of. a. Motif b. Content c. Subject d. Style

d. Style

Q. Paul C. Taylor argues that white musicians cannot play the blues because ___________________ a. white musicians cannot possess the technical skills required b. such musicians, like Eric Clapton, were not sharecroppers in the Mississippi Delta in the late nineteenth or early twentieth century c. Taylor didn't argue this. d. the blues is about the communal perspective of the black community, which white musicians will necessarily be outsiders of.

d. the blues is about the communal perspective of the black community, which white musicians will necessarily be outsiders of.

Playing or listening authentically involves adopting an attitude of ___________________________________, by focusing on the pain of others, both historically and currently.

moral deference

Casting white actors to play traditionally non-white roles is known as ______________________________.

whitewashing