AHIST EXAM 3

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Expatriate Iranian artist Shirin Neshat combines images of rifles and veils with calligraphy to address what subject?

The treatment of women under the fundamentalist Islamic regime in Iran

The "Hamada-Leach aesthetic" in ceramics is associated with what qualities?

The use of course, dark stoneware

Which Pop artist excerpted a page from a comic book, a form of entertainment meant to be read and discarded, and immortalized their images on a monumental scale?

Roy Lichtenstein

What structural system was employed by Kenzo Tange in his design of the stadiums for the 1964 Olympics?

A cable suspension system

The eclecticism and dialogue between traditional and contemporary elements found in postmodern architecture is seen in the which building?

AT&T Building, New York

Among the criticisms of Michael Graves's Portland Building was that it resembled what?

An enlarged jukebox

In his writing on postmodern architecture, Venturi emphasized which two concepts?

Complexity and contradiction

Which leading figure in the folk art movement of modern Japan created this work?

Hamada Shoji

Which architect designed La Grande Louvre Pyramide in Paris?

I. M. Pei

Which ancient art form has Shahzia Sikander worked to imbue with contemporary messages?

Miniature painting

Which artist created Superrealist life-size painted plaster sculptures that capture the loneliness of average Americans in familiar settings?

Duane Hanson

What aspect of James Stirling's Neue Staatsgalerie is quintessentially postmodern?

Its historical eclecticism

Anish Kapoor's Cloud Gate is most similar to Richard Serra's Tilted Arc in what respect?

Its location in a plaza in a busy city

Isamu Noguchi's Shodo Shima Stone Study weds the geometric abstraction of Western art with what other tradition?

Japanese garden design

The work of which artist reflects the legacy of Marcel Duchamp and Andy Warhol?

Jeff Koons

The abstract sculpture of which contemporary Japanese artist reflect ancient Shino beliefs?

Kimio Tsuchiya

Helen Oji's painting Mount St. Helens is an abstract landscape showing the eruption of Mount St. Helen's volcano taking the shape of which object?

Kimono

What is the term for paintings that produce illusions of motion and depth using only geometric forms on two-dimensional surfaces, as in this work titled Fission by Bridget Riley?

Op Art

Founded in 1954, the Gutai movement devoted itself to art that combined Japanese traditional practices such as Zen with a renewed appreciation for materials. What type of art did many Gutai artists engage in?

Performance art

Which art took as its subject the mass culture and familiar imagery of the contemporary urban environment?

Pop Art

What did Robert Frank's images in The Americans, such as Trolley, New Orleans, reveal about life in the United States in the 1950s?

The successful efforts of racial desegregationists in the country & The continuing segregation among blacks and whites in the country

What artistic tradition does the Superrealist artist Audrey Flack draw upon to make a poignant commentary in Marilyn?

The vanitas painting


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