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Roman imperial baths, such as the ____, had libraries, art galleries, restaurants, bars, and gymnasiums and offered theater performances, public lectures, and athletic contests.

Baths of Caracalla

Located in the middle of Manhattan in New York City and designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, ____ is considered to be an outstanding example of landscape architecture.

Central Park

Western theater began as a form of worship of the god ____.

Dionysos

A favorite subject of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, ____ was a singer and dancer at the famous cabaret Moulin Rouge.

Jane Avril

The posters of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec were influenced by ____.

Japanese prints

A modern theatrical puppet performance on Broadway is ____.

The Lion King

Deconstructivist architecture does not have ____.

a unified whole

As seen in the Theater at Epidauros designed by Polykleitos, the Classical Greek ideal shape was the ____.

circle

Visual culture is an area of academic study that deals with the totality of images and visual objects produced in ____, and the ways that those images are disseminated, received, and used.

industrial and postindustrial nations

____ architecture, rooted in the work of Frank Lloyd Wright, often results in designs that resemble "functional sculpture."

organic

____ art is a visual art form that incorporates live action and mixed media and is presented before a live audience.

performance

Central Park was designed to be a(n) ____ from city life.

retreat

In the ancient city of Ur, bearded bulls symbolized ____.

royalty

The cascading vaults of Joern Utzon's Opera House in Sydney are intended to suggest ____.

sailboats

The Japanese theater musicians played a stringed instrument called a ____.

samisen

Architect Frank Gehry was originally trained as a ____.

sculptor

In 1927, ____ was/were added to motion pictures.

sound

The Sydney Opera House owes a stylistic debt to the architecture of ____.

Frank Lloyd Wright

The Hakone Open-Air Museum is located in Japan's Hakone National Park and is surrounded by the beauty of the ____ Mountains.

Hakone

In the nineteenth century, houses for the arts were often very ornate or built in the ____ style to resemble a Greek temple.

classical

____ is a relatively early form of animation which uses clay sculptures that are moved and photographed in tiny increments.

claymation

The Japanese Bunraku translates to ____.

doll drama

Frank Lloyd Wright's Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York is architecturally engineered to display paintings and sculptures at their best.

false

In its original state, the Colosseum in Rome was a spartan amphitheater devoid of any ornamentation except for its Doric capitals.

false

In the Cycladic Islands off Greece, sculptures of ballplayers, musicians, and acrobats were found buried in graves.

false

The ultimate purpose of visual culture is to record the language of visual media so that images have a universal meaning regardless of nationality or culture.

false

Animation grew out of ____, in which a series of drawn images seem to move as book pages are flipped rapidly.

flip books

The structure of the Sydney Opera House is referred to as ____.

functional sculpture

The first examples of performance art were called ____.

happenings

The Mayan's ritualistic ball sport has similarities to the contemporary game of ____.

soccer

The opening ceremonies for the Olympic games is an example of ____ — a public exhibition on a grand scale.

spectacle

The North American Sioux Open Circle Dance celebrated ____.

springtime

Frank Gehry's architectural works usually lack ____.

symmetry

The seating area of ancient Greek theaters was called the ____.

theatron

Ancient Greek comedies and tragedies were originally part of ritual festivals dedicated to the deity Dionysos.

true

Bull jumping was a popular sport in the ancient Minoan culture.

true

In ancient Greece, art galleries were frequently near temple complexes.

true

Matthew Barney's Cremaster I references Busby Berkley musical productions from 1930s' Hollywood films.

true

Most contemporary houses for the arts are built in architectural styles that reflect modern values of innovation, bold movement, or future potential.

true

Rome's Colosseum was built on the site of an artificial lake where a colossal statue of Emperor Nero once stood.

true

____ culture refers to the production, use and dissemination of images and visual objects, particularly in industrial and postindustrial nations.

visual

____ is the academic discipline that investigates visual media and its effect on entertainment, information, political power, and social structures.

visual culture