Test #6

_________________ is known as the father of Japanese modernist photography.

Shinzo Fukuhara

___________________ is an Iranian visual artist who lives in New York City, known primarily for her work in film, video and photography. Her artwork centers on the contrasts between Islam and the West, femininity and masculinity, public life and private life, antiquity and modernity, and bridging the spaces between these subjects.

Shirin Neshat

___________________ was a Japanese photographer best known for extensively photographing Nagasaki the day after it was bombed.

Yōsuke Yamahata

Carpets, textiles, and ceramics are considered unimportant facets of Islamic art.

false

The Haniwa are metal figures that were made for ritual use and buried with the dead as funerary objects during the Kofun period in Japan.

false

The Taj Mahal is regarded by many as the best example of ancient Mexican architecture.

false

Books were a major artistic outlet for painters in Islamic culture.

true

Inhabitants of the ancient Indus river valley developed new techniques in handicraft and metallurgy.

true

The Ajanta Caves in Aurangabad district of Maharashtra state of India include paintings and rock cut sculptures described as among the finest surviving examples of ancient Indian art.

true

The Asuka period is known for its significant artistic, social, and political transformations, having their origins in the late Kofun period but largely affected by the arrival of Buddhism from China.

true

The Great Mosque of Kairouan is an early example of a hypostyle mosque.

true

The Great Stupa at Sanchi is the oldest stone structures in India.

true

The Song Dynasty in China ushered in a period of interest in landscape painting.

true

The monolithic statues of Easter Island were carved as memorials to dead rulers or other important ancestors.

true

Raghubir Singh was an Indian photographer, most known for narrative tableau photographs inspired by Bollywood.

False

Tattooing was considered taboo to the Pacific Marquesan culture.

False

________________________ often combines Islamic calligraphy with representations of the female body, addresses the complex reality of Arab female identity from the unique perspective of personal experience.

Lalla A. Essaydi

___________________ were always part of Aztec ritual and religious ceremony, transformational objects believed to have great power and to open a portal from one identity or reality to another.

Masks

Which of the following is not a major world religion practiced in early Asian culture.

Mormonism

The largest single-structured monument in Mesoamerica was built in the city of Teotihuacan in 100 CE by the Aztecs.

True