Chapter 15

Which liberation movements impacted the second half of the twentieth century, from about 1930 to 2000? Realism Anticolonialism Civil Rights Modernism

Anticolonialism Civil rights

How can the state of the world following World War II be best summarized?

The world's population was in a state of shock and disillusion.

Beckett's Waiting for Godot belongs to a dramatic genre known as?

Theater of the absurd.

The pioneer of Pop art was ?

Andy Warhol

What was a condition fundamental to existential philosophy? Admiration for advancing technology Preoccupation with modern art Anxious estrangement from God Adherence to Greek Philosophy

Anxious estrangement from God

What characteristics describe Postmodernism and Postmodernist texts? Exalts the artist as visionary and genius, unaffected by the electronic media Appropriates preexisting texts and images from history, advertising, and the media Is preoccupied with formal abstraction and its redeeming power 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 Offers alternatives to Modernist expression in the form of parody, whimsy, paradox, and irony

Some critics contend that Postmodernism originated with the rejection of the International Style in the field of?

Architecture.

Which statements about contemporary photography are true? Artists may produce photographs of images they did not themselves originally capture. Some photographs are the result of digital manipulation. There has been a growing reliance on the traditional darkroom process. It still relies on representational subject matter.

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

In which ways has contemporary art changed over the last several decades?

Artworks have become more interactive and participatory. Installations take up increasingly larger spaces.

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

Augmented reality

Islamist nationalism in Iraq and Iran has been hampered by which factors? Chinese diplomacy Anticolonial sentiment British interference Sunni and Shiite conflict

British interference Sunni and Shiite conflict

What tool enabled molecular biologists to successfully map the human genome? The Internet Deconstruction theory String theory Computer

Computer

What two styles of art emerged in China during the 1990s?

Cynical Realism Political Pop

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? Frank Herbert Don DeLilo Salman Rushdie Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Don DeLilo

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

Arguably the most radical development in music in the last fifty years, as seen in synthesizers and sampling, has been the

Impact of electronic technology.

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

Science fiction

Absurdist plays feature which characteristics? Events progress logically Lack of dramatic expression Characters undergo little change Dialogue contradicts actions

Lack of dramatic expression Characters undergo little change Dialogue contradicts actions

The elements of jazz and street slang in the poetry of Gwendolyn Brooks show the influence of?

Langston Hughes

The feminist Simone de Beauvoir held that women?

Should reject the role of "Other".

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

Machinelike purity Simple shapes Impersonal style

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

Magic realism

Whose choreography presented a radical disassociation of music and dance?

Merce Cunningham

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

Where did Abstract Expressionism originate?

NYC

Who is considered the "father of video art?" Jackson Pollock Nam June Paik Robert Smithson Andreas Gursky

Nam June Paik

What characteristics describe Postmodernism and Postmodernist texts? Exalts the artist as visionary and genius, unaffected by the electronic media 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 Is preoccupied with formal abstraction and its redeeming power

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

After 1945, there was a shift in major art production from?

Paris to New York.

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

Oscar Hijuelos wrote The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love, The House on Mango Street, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love

Which character type finds expression in postwar literature?

The existential antihero

Sandra Cisneros wrote The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love, The House on Mango Street, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

The house on Mango Street

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? Multiple select question. The score combines traditional and contemporary musical styles. The story takes place in three different worlds. It was scored for orchestra and synthesizer. It is strictly atonal and dissonant.

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

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

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

In his writings on existentialism, Sartre insisted that each individual is?

The sum of his or her own actions.

What is the Superstring Theory?

The universe is multidimensional and united by globules of matter.

Einstein on the Beach, one of the first operas to employ electronically amplified instrumentation, was written by

Philip Glass

The Cold War was a battle between which of the following two superpowers? United states and Soviet Union United states and Japan China and United states Germany and Italy

United states and Soviet Union

A major theme in the global perspective is ______ identity, one's bond to a group that shares the same cultural traditions, culture, and values.

ethnic

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

feminism

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

Combines

What idiom describes the style of Postmodern architecture?

"Less is a bore.

A major component of hip-hop music is

1. percussive beats 2. disco, reggae & rock 3. electronic manipulation of music by DJ's

The United States Supreme Court did not ban school segregation until?

1954.

Which filmmaker was prominent in postwar cinema?

Akira Kurosawa

Which of the following describe the existential antihero in postwar literature? Alienated by nature Uncertain of purpose Liberated by Freedom Trapped by Freedom

Alienated by nature Uncertain of purpose Trapped by freedom

What was the result, in 1947, of Islamic liberation movements in India?

An independent Pakistan

Sartre's landmark philosophic treatise is entitled?

Being and Nothingness.

Which of the following are characteristics of poetry of the last sixty years? Nostalgic look at older historical eras Belief that language shapes and articulates the self Cryptic and self-conscious Concerns with global issues are common themes

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

What do minimalism and geometric abstraction have in common?

Both largely nonrepresentational.

In what way did postwar cinema search for meaning?

Challenge to traditional moral values

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

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

F

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

Freedom from oppression

Which authors are known for writing in the Magic Realist style? Don DeLillo Gabriel Garcia Márquez Derek Walcott Salman Rushdie

Gabriel Garcia Márquez Salman Rushdie

Which artwork is an example of the close interactivity in contemporary art, allowing the viewer to be both creator and spectator?

Graffiti Nature: Lost, Immersed, and Reborn

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

György Ligeti

What features did Robert Venturi's theory of architectural Postmodernism emphasize?Individuality Machinelike purity Wit and playfulness Visual complexity

Individuality Wit and playfulness Visual complexity

The aesthetic, production, and materials of minimalist artworks are inspired by?

Industrial technology.

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

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

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

It has helped organize political revolutions.

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

James Baldwin

Who was the leading philosopher of the twentieth-century philosophical movement called existentialism?

Jean-Paul Sartre

Which are characteristics of Postmodern fiction?

Plots often lack logical direction Characters undergo little or no development

The leading action painter of the twentieth century was?

Pollock

Leading artists of China's Pop art movement, such as Wang Guangyi, have assumed the role of?

Pop Art

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

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

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 are features of the style known as New Realism?

Representational content Indifference to social issues

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

Robert Rauschenberg

What characteristics are common in the work of video artist Bill Viola? Slow motion Irony Explorations of mortality Buddhist thought

Slow motion Explorations of mortality Buddhist thought

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.

Who established "the theory of everything" to reconcile Einstein's theory of relativity with quantum physics

String Theorists

T or F: Absurdist playwrights rejected traditional dramatic structure.

T

Which contemporary composer wrote The First Emperor, an opera that rings together two radically different operatic styles, Western and Peking? Multiple choice question. Benjamin Britten John Adams John Corilgliano Tan Dun

Tan Dun

Which of the following statements about the global village and the Information Age are true? There has been an information explosion of vast proportions. Communication between geographically remote parts of the world is still slow and unreliable. Every new development potentially affects every global villager. Inhabitants of the world community are less aware than ever before.

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

Which feature is shared by the Political Pop and Cynical Realism art styles?

They both seized on Western icons and popular commercial advertising techniques to satirize issues.

The music of John Cage is ______, or based on chance or random procedures. ex. 4'33

aleatoric

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

synthesizer

Junot Diaz wrote The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love, The House on Mango Street, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

the Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao