Humanities 310 Final Study Guide Questions
Prima Ballerina
A __________________________ is the first, or leading, female dancer in a ballet company.
Jazz
A major component of the music known as _________________________ is improvisation, syncopation, and the blues motif.
Hip hop
A major components of ____________________________ music is percussive beats, disco, reggae, and rock influences and the electronic manipulations of music by disc jockeys.
Frederick Douglass
A powerful public speaker and writer ________________________ captivated his audiences with accounts of his life in bondage and in freedom.
Paris to US
After 1945, there was a shift in major art production from ________________ to ____________.
Nonobjective Art
Between 1909 and 1914, Kandinsky, Malevich and Mondrian introduced a revolutionary new idea by purging the canvas of all recognizable subject matter and became pioneers of _______________________ art.
Harlem Renaissance
Between 1920 and 1940 the ___________________________ made the self-conscious "rebirth" of the African Heritage a principal part of an intellectual and cultural quest for racial identity and equality.
sublime
By using the word ______________________, romantics like Wordsworth were referring to the awe and terror experienced before nature and its mysterious grandeur.
Read and study the cover page of Chapter 14 of textbook
Define the characteristics of Modernism.
colonized or controlled
Driven by the need for raw materials and markets for their manufactured goods, and aided immeasurably by their advanced military technology, the industrial nations quickly _________________________ vast parts of Asia, Africa, and Latin America.
Great Depression
Following the crash of the inflated stock prices in 1929, a growing paralysis swept through the American economy, leading to the ________________________.
Fauvism
Henri Matisse was one of the originators of which artistic style?
A Dolls House
Henrik Ibsen's landmark drama of female liberation, _________________________ traces the awakening of a middle-class woman to the meaninglessness of her role as "a doll-wife" living in "a doll's house."
Georges Haussman
In 1852 __________________________________ redesigned the city of Paris.
Stonewall Inn
In America, homosexuals date the birth of their "liberation" to June 1969, when they publicly protested a police raid on the ________________________, a gay bar in New York's Greenwich Village.
id (the seat of human instincts and the source of all physical desires)
In Freud's view, civilization is the product of the ego's effort to direct the primal urges of the _____________________________.
infinite knowledge and personal experience
In Goethe's Faust, Georg Faust was reputed to have sold his soul to the Devil in exchange for ____________________.
Beethoven
In his land mark symphonies ,______________________ made use of strong contrasts of loud and soft sound, the scherzo and dramatic motifs.
Existentialism
In his writings ________________, Sartre insisted that each individual is the sum of his or her own actions
proletariat
In the communist manifesto, Marx and Engels prophesied that a revolution would make the _______________________________ the new ruling class.
Rousseau
In the eighteenth-century, what individual declared "Exister, pour nous, c'est sentir" ("For us, to exist is to feel")
Ralph Waldo Emerson
In the essay entitles "Nature" (1836), the writer ___________________________________ sets forth a pantheistic credo: Becoming one with nature, we find true happiness.
Genome
In the year 2000, scientists complete the mapping of the human _____________________.
Romantic Landscape
J.M.W. Turner, John Constable, and Thomas Cole were all noted painters of __________________________
Deconstruction
Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault were leading figures of _____________________.
Science Fiction
Jules Verne and H.G. Wells were pioneering figures in which literary genre?
Industrial Revolution
Many inventions during the _________________________ made it possible to produce ( and eventually mass-produce) goods by machine rather than by hand.
urinal
Marcel Duchamp created his famous work Fountain by mounting and displaying a ___________________________.
Cubism
Picasso's landmark work Les Demoiselles d'Avignon was a precursor to the style that became known as ______________________________.
Vincent van Gogh
The Dutch artist __________________________ was a passionate idealist whose life was marred by loneliness, poverty, depression, and a hereditary mental illness that ultimately may have driven him to suicide.
Gustave Flaubert
The French novelist ___________________________ is a representative of a number of nineteenth-century writers whose works examined the everyday lives of middle-class women of their time, especially as they were affected by social conventions and personal values.
George Catlin
The Romantic fascination with unspoiled nature and "natural man" also inspired documentary studies of Native Americans, such as those executed by the artist/ethnologist _____________________________.
Honore Daumier
The Social Realist who is primarily associated with the medium of lithography is ________________________.
Eiffel Tower
The ______________________________ was a 1603-foot-high viewing tower made of cast-iron constructed for the Paris World's Fair of 1889.
Vietnam Veterans Memorial
The _________________________________________, made of two granite slabs and done in the minimalist style was conceived by the American Artist Maya Ying Lin.
Paul Gauguin
The artist who became infatuated with unspoiled nature, especially as it existed in Tahiti (where he relocated after abandoning his job and family), was _________________________________.
Italy
The artistic movement known as Futurism originally developed in _______________________.
the terrorist attacks of 9/11
The artworks on the Transmigration of Souls, Tumbling Woman, and Terminal Velocity were all made in response to ___________________
Walt Whitman
The autobiographical masterpiece, Leaves of Grass written by ______________________________ was a collection of poems.
Merce Cunningham
The choreography of ____________________ is considered radical because it does not depend on music.
James Baldwin and Ralph Ellison
Two luminaries of American black protest literature were ______________________ and __________________
Postimpressionist
Vincent van Gogh's Starry Night is an example of the _____________________ style.
Amandine Aurore Lucile Dupin
Was a French writer of the Romantic era, and intriguing female voice that often wrote about male-female relations.
An emphasis on emotion and intuition, a strong love of nature, an interest in medieval history, and glorification of national heritage
What are the characteristics of Romanticism?
Reaction against Modernism/ after modernism
What does the term post-modernism mean?
a type of popular dance music originating in the 1950's characterized by a heavy beat and simple melodies
What is Rock and Roll?
Current History
What is the subject of the painting Raft of the Medusa by Theodore Gericault?
Machine guns, heavy artillery, hand grenades, poison gas, flame throwers, armored tanks, submarines, dirigibles (airships), and airplanes
What weapons of advanced technology made World War 1 more impersonal and more devastating than any previously fought wars?
The enlightenment, science, and religion
What were the Romantics rebelling against?
1954
What year did the US Supreme Court ban school segregation?
Dada
Which artistic movement thrived on nihilism and irrationalism?
John Cage
Which composer wrote aleatory pieces such as 4' 33"?
Charles Darwin
Who contributed to the study of biology chiefly by developing the theory of natural selection.
The Harlem Renaissance
Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes are both primarily associated with the _____________________________________.
Pop
______________ art glorified the imagery of consumer products, celebrities, and everyday events as mediated by television, film, and magazines.
Video
______________ art is a kind of installation that takes the natural landscape as both its medium and its subject.
Auguste Rodin
_______________________ was the leading sculptor of the late nineteenth century and stated "The sculpture of antiquity, sought the logic of the human body; I seek its psychology."
The age old subject of mother and child
_________________________ was the usual subject matter of Mary Cassatt's paintings.
Mobile
___________________________ is a sculpture constructed so that its parts move by natural or mechanical means.
free verse
___________________________ poetry is based on irregular rhythmic patterns rather than on the conventional use of meter.
Georges Seurat
____________________________ was best known for his pointillist paintings.
Totalitarian
_______________________________ is a political regime that imposes the will of the state upon the life and conduct of the individual.
Surrealism
________________________________ artists sought to liberate the unconscious mind by portraying dreams and fantasy worlds in their art.
Expressionist
________________________________ artists such as Edvard Munch sought to express intense internal feelings.
Charles Dickens
________________________________ offered realistic (and sentimental) depictions of nineteenth-century society in works such as David Copperfield.
Karl Marx
_____________________________________ is the author of Communist Manifesto, which explains his belief in the inherent evil of capitalism and in the historical inevitability of a proletarian revolution.
American Transcendentalists
__________________________________________________ were a group of New England intellectuals who held that knowledge gained by way of intuition transcended knowledge based on reason.
Docufiction
a literary genre that gives an original (and fictionalized) narrative context to contemporary events and situations
The Dinner Party
a room-sized sculpture consisting of a triangular table with thirty-nine place settings, each symbolizing a famous woman in myth or history.
The Letter from Birmingham Jail
is Martin Luther King Jr.'s landmark work that provided philosophical justification for the use of civil obedience in the face of injustice.
Feminism
the doctrine advocating equal social, political, and economic rights of the sexes.
Romanticism
was a movement dominating Western culture between roughly 1780 and 1880 and was a reaction against enlightenment rationalism
Media-shaped Globalism
, the condition of interdependence between all parts of the world, was forged in the technology of mass communication
String
The effort on the part of contemporary physicists to achieve "theory of everything" is evident in _________________ theory
Gustave Courbet
The leading Realist of nineteenth-century French painting was __________________________.
Pollock
The leading action painter of the 20th century
Naturalist Fiction
The literary form, best exemplified by Emile Zola, that sought to objectively represent life without embellishment or idealization is __________________________
cast iron
The most important new medium in mid-nineteenth-century architecture was _________________.
Claude Monet
The movement know as Impressionism took its title from a painting by ______________________.
Claude Debussy
The musical equivalent of a painting by Monet can be found in the work of __________________________.
The international style in architecture
The names Gropius and Le Corbusier are associated with ___________________________.
Frankenstein
The novel _________________________ written by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley is the first literary work to examine the human impact of scientific experimentation and inspired future science fiction writers.
Jane Austen
The novels of ___________________________________________ focus on the everyday concerns of England's provincial middle-class families and to the comic contradictions between human actions and values.
Shirin Neshat
The photographs and films of _________________________ deal with ethnic and feminist issues in the Muslim World.
Andy Warhol
The pioneer figure in American Pop art was __________________
social
The term ______________ Darwinism, describes the concept that natural selection operates to determine the superiority of some individuals, groups, races, and nations over others.
creationist
The theory of natural selection challenged the ___________________________ view (supported by the bible) that God had brought into being a fixed and unchanging number of species.
Montage
The use of cinematic shots in rapid succession is known as ____________________.
Hegel
This man's dialectic described a system in which thesis and antithesis confront on another and generate a synthesis.
"Lyrical Ballads" by Wordsworth and Coleridge
This piece of literature marked the birth of Romanticism in England.
