HUM Ch 15

What genre of music is considered an expression of youth culture in the 1960s?

Rock (Reason: The rock sound, associated with dancing, illicit drugs, sexual freedom, and rebellion against restrictive parental and cultural norms, was an expression of a youth culture.)

Traditional photography has undergone radical changes in the past sixty years in large part due to the proliferation of ______ photography.

digital

What was a condition fundamental to existential philosophy?

Anxious estrangement from God

What features in contemporary cinema resulted from advances in digital technology?

High definition CGI

Who was the leading philosopher of the 20th cent philosophical movement called existentialism?

jean-paul satre

Duane Hanson's Tourists sculpture is an example of what style?

new realism

What tool enabled molecular biologists to successfully map the human genome?

the computer

Rendered by way of impersonal advertising techniques, ______'s iconic portraits of political figures and celebrities challenged traditional distinctions between fine and applied art, even as they endorsed art as a marketable commodity.

Andy Warhol

Which liberation movements impacted the second half of the twentieth century, from about 1930 to 2000?

Anti-colonialism, civil rights

According to language theorists, a text refers to what feature?

Any mode of cultural expression

What aspect of New Media art adds digital information to real-time life?

Augmented reality

What is the definitive musical instrument of the Information Age?

Computer

Which of the following are characteristics of poetry of the last sixty years?

Concerns with global issues are common themes Belief that language shapes and articulates the self

Which author, in his novel Underworld, captures the cinematic rush of our media-driven infotopia, and the Postmodern penchant for mixing "high" and "low" elements?

Don DeLillo

Following the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 and the Thirteenth Amendment in 1865, how is the African-American experience best described?

Harsh treatment, segregated housing, and unequal employment

Who monumentalized the art of assemblage in works that incorporate old items such as broken furniture, tires, and street signs?

Robert Rauschenberg (Reason: Rauschenberg monumentalized the technique of assemblage in landmark artworks he called "combines"—creations that attack the boundary between painting and sculpture.)

Which authors are known for writing in the Magic Realist style?

Salman Rushdie Gabriel Garcia Márquez

What literary genre considers the future consequences of present-day human activity?

Science fiction

Absurdist plays feature which characteristics?

Lack of dramatic expression, Characters undergo little change, Dialogue contradicts actions

What has the cheap availability of digitally produced music resulted in?

Scores of do-it-yourself composers Universally accessible music

What characteristics can be found in the Geometric Abstraction works of Frank Stella, such as his "Protractor" series?

Machinelike purity Simple shapes Impersonal style

Which Abstract Expressionist artist was primarily associated with the color-field painting method?

Mark Rothko

The use of musical intervals smaller than the semitones of traditional European and American music, but common to the music of India and the Near East is called by what term?

Microtonality

Who initiated a policy of peaceful protest against colonial oppression in India? Multiple choice question.

Mohandas Gandhi

Who is considered the "father of video art?"

Nam June Paik

Duane Hanson's Tourists sculpture is an example of what style? Multiple choice question.

New Realism

Where did Abstract Expressionism originate?

New York

How can the later works of Mark Rothko can be described as?

Nonrepresentational, Spiritual

James Baldwin

Observed that black people were strangers in a modern world, whose traditions were claimed by whites.

What characteristics describe Postmodernism and Postmodernist texts?

Offers alternatives to Modernist expression in the form of parody, whimsy, paradox, and irony Appropriates preexisting texts and images from history, advertising, and the media

What aspect of ethnic identity is summarized in the Yoruba proverb: "I am because we are; What I am is what we are"?

Perception that one belongs to a group that shares the same cultural values

Which character type finds expression in postwar literature?

The existential antihero

How can String or Superstring Theory best be described?

The universe is multidimensional and united by globules of matter.

Affects of new technology

There has been an information explosion of vast proportions. Every new development potentially affects every global villager.

Which of the following describe the existential antihero in postwar literature?

Uncertain of purpose, Alienated by nature, Trapped by freedom, Trapped by freedom

Which feminist writer argued that freedom is the prerequisite for creativity?

Virginia Woolf ("A Room of One's Own," Woolf argues that a women's freedom is achieved when she has financial and psychological independence from men.)

What features did Robert Venturi's theory of architectural Postmodernism emphasize?

Visual complexity Individuality Wit and playfulness

The principle advocating equal social, political, and economic rights for women equal to those of men is

feminism

What literary genre features magical elements that appear in an otherwise realistic setting?

magic realism

Oscar Hijuelos

The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love

Which film used pure CGI to depict alternate realities?

Avatar

What idiom describes the style of Postmodern architecture?

"Less is a bore."

What is the false and disempowering idea that women possess a unique and preordained "feminine" essence, which condemns them to a role of social and intellectual subordination to men?

"Myth of femininity" (Simone De Beauvoir insisted that women should "renounce all advantages conferred upon them by their alliance" with men, including their so-called "feminine" essence.)

Which of the following happened in Rothko's works in his later years?

A shift from bright to darker hues.

What radical new Modernist style originated in New York City in 1945?

Abstract EXpressionism

What was the result, in 1947, of Islamic liberation movements in India? Multiple choice question.

An independent Pakistan

Which artists belong to the Pop Art movement?

Claes Oldenburg Andy Warhol

Which feminist photographer superimposed messages in her work, Untitled ("Your body is a battleground"), to call attention to controversial social issues such as abortion?

Barbara Kruger (Aware of the extent to which commercialism shapes identity, Kruger calls attention to the controversial issue of abortion in contemporary society in this work.)

What did Robert Rauschenberg call his monumental assemblages of "found" images?

Combines

In what way did postwar cinema search for meaning?

Challenge to traditional moral values

Postmodern literarture characteristics

Characters undergo little or no development Plots often lack logical direction

Whose monumental sculptures feature gigantic versions of everyday objects?

Claes Oldenburg (Reason: Oldenburg's gigantic versions of everyday items (toilets, hot dogs, table fans, and clothespins) assume a comic vulgarity that shatters our acceptance of their presence in our daily lives.)

What element marks John Ashbery's poem, "Paradoxes and Oxymorons," as Postmodern?

Deconstruction of language

What is the literary genre that gives an original and fictionalized narrative context to contemporary events and situations called?

Docufiction

Which two major crises challenge the global community of the twenty-first century?

Environmental protection Threat of terrorism

What characteristics are common in the work of video artist Bill Viola?

Explorations of mortality Slow motion Buddhist thought

What social media websites have helped create and solidify the global village?

Facebook Twitter

True or false: Postmodernism is pluralistic; it suggests that meaning is absolute and fixed; and that the individual has numerous (and often contradictory) identities.

False (Postmodern art is a playful amalgam of disparate styles that mingles the superficial and the profound, and tends to dissolve the boundaries between "high" and "low" art.)

Mohandas Gandhi's approach included what forms of nonviolent resistance?

Fasting and peaceful protest

According to Virginia Woolf, what must women achieve in order to secure their creative freedom?

Financial independence and Psychological independence

Postwar era reform movements were primarily aimed to achieve what result?

Freedom from oppression

What futuristic innovations were predicted by William Gibson in his 1984 novel, Neuromancer?

Genetic engineering

Which composer used microtones to achieve instrumental tone clusters that shimmer and murmur hypnotically?

György Ligeti (Reason: Ligeti used microtonality in his works to create shimmering currents of sound that murmur hypnotically.)

Which of the following are characteristics of Cunningham's choreography?

It focuses on abstract form. It embraces everyday actions, such as running and falling.

What describes the impact of social media in the geopolitical realm?

It has helped organize political revolutions.

Which of the following are characteristics of The Ghosts of Versailles, composed by John Corigliano and classified as the first Postmodern opera of the twentieth century?

It was scored for orchestra and synthesizer. The score combines traditional and contemporary musical styles. The story takes place in three different worlds.

Which Abstract Expressionist artist devised a technique called action painting that made action itself the subject of the painting? Multiple choice question.

Jackson Pollock

Whose novel Go Tell It on the Mountain, is a sensitive exploration of youthful experiences in Harlem?

James Baldwin

What mid-century American composer is known for his experimental combinations of sound, noise, and silence?

John Cage

Sandra Cisneros

The House on Mango Street

What outcomes are possible from the successful mapping of the human genome?

Prediction of hereditary diseases Produce robotic body parts Preventive treatment of gene-related diseases

Ralph Ellison

Probes the black estrangement from the white culture with surrealistic intensity.

During the information age, what phase did philosophy enter, which denied any true or uniform system of thought?

Radical skepticism

What is a primary feature of Pop art?

Realist imagery

What did Simone de Beauvoir ask women to do, in pursuit of gender equality?

Renounce all advantages conferred by sexism

What are features of the style known as New Realism?

Representational content Indifference to social issues

_____ was a fact of American life for 250 years, until the end of the Civil War.

Slavery

Which statements about contemporary photography are true?

Some photographs are the result of digital manipulation. Artists may produce photographs of images they did not themselves originally capture.

Which two nations confronted one another in hostile distrust following World War II?

Soviet Union and the US

What work of environmental art is considered one of the most important of the late twentieth century?

Spiral Jetty (by Robert Smithson)

How can Frank Gehry's creative process be described?

Spontaneous

In an attempt to reconcile Einstein's theory of relativity with quantum physics _____ theorists seek to establish a "theory of everything."

String

Islamist nationalism in Iraq and Iran has been hampered by which factors?

Sunni and Shiite conflict, British interference

What Classical design principles did Gehry deliberately reject in architectural designs such as the Walt Disney Concert Hall?

Symmetry and stability

What instrument allows a musician to control the texture, timbre, and intensity of electronic sound?

Synthesizer (Reason: The synthesizer allows musicians to manipulate the pitch, duration, and dynamics of sound even as the music is being performed.)

Which contemporary composer wrote The First Emperor, an opera that rings together two radically different operatic styles, Western and Peking?

Tan Dun (Reason: This work,by the Chinese composer Tan Dun, combines elements of Western opera with brilliant usage of Chinese instruments and the unique performance practices of Asian theater.)

Junot Diaz

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Jackson Pollock devised a technique called _____ painting, which was inspired by the union of intuition, improvisation, and rigorous control of Navajo sand painting. Listen to the complete question

action

The music of John Cage is ______, or based on chance or random procedures.

aleatoric (Reason: Aleatoric music is any that is composed according to chance or random procedures.)

A type of Abstract Expressionism known as ________ involved the application of transparent layers of paint.

color field painting

The most revolutionary musical invention of the late 1960s was the

computerized synthesizer

Works from Frank Stella's "Protractor" series are classified by what term?

geometric abstraction

In the information age, electronic modes of communication have shrunk the distances between inhabitants of the world community, resulting in what Canadian sociology Marshall McLuhan referred to as a(n)

global village

What group of people make up the largest ethnic minority in the United States?

hispanics

Who directed the collaborative artwork resulting in a room-size sculpture of a triangular table called The Dinner Party?

judy chicago

What style of art embraced the imagery of consumerism and celebrity culture as mediated by television, film, and magazines?

pop art

In ______ fiction, characters undergo little or no development, plots often lack logical direction, and events—whether ordinary, perverse, or fantastic—may be described in the detached tone of a newspaper article.

postmodern

What printmaking technique did Andy Warhol use to blur the lines between fine and commercial art?

silk screening

which character type finds expression in postwar literature

the existential antihero

What is the computer-driven form of interactive art that allows the user to interact with a computer-simulated environment?

virtual reaity