Art in Society ch.4

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Which statement best describes Juan O' Gorman's mural Panel of the Independence-Father Hidalgo (Retablo de la Independencia-Hidalgo)?

It is an overtly political work and functions as ideological criticism

Which belief system is the iconography of Yama related to

Buddhism

Who were the primary patrons for Rembrandt and other Dutch artists working in the Netherlands in the seventeenth century?

Middle class clients

Which type of criticism holds that art should be studied as the product of individuals who are shaped by their pasts, their unconscious urges, and their social histories?

Psychoanalytic Criticism

What is the primary subject of Shirin Neshat's Speechless?

The experience of women in a contemporary fundamentalist Islamic culture

Which of the following best describes the subject matter of Dona Schlesier's abstract mixed-media work Setting Cycles?

The subject matter is best described by the organization of the materials themselves and the various dichotomies and cycles they suggest.

What was the historical context for Edward Hopper's Nighthawks

World war 2

What kind of critical approach considers the interrelated historical, social, and political conditions that surround a work of art?

context

Which philosophy, introduced by Jacques Derrida, holds that systems appear natural and coherent seen from the inside, but are actually filled with unseen contradictions, myths, or stereotypes

deconstruction

Which type of criticism does Morris Louis's Blue Veil strongly lend itself to

formalist

What is the critical approach that analyzes and critiques an artwork based on the compositional arrangement of its elements?

formalist criticism

What is studied when an analyst evaluates the symbolic images within a work of art?

iconography

Why is psychoanalytic criticism particularly appropriate for Kay Sage's painting Tomorrow Is Never?

it alludes to hallucinations, fantasy or dreams

Which critical approach is based on the analysis of signs and symbols in written and verbal language?

semiotics

Which statement best describes the collective self-portraits of Cindy Sherman?

they deconstruct stereotypes of women in Western cultures


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