Chapter 25

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What is the evidence of a Performance Art event?

Documentary photos at the time of the performance

Which of the following painters illustrates Clement Greenberg's insistence "on purity in art"?

Frank Stella

How did Allan Kaprow view art?

He viewed it as an intersection of art and life.

How did the Fluxus group see aesthetic potential?

In the nontraditional and commonplace

Performance Art can be described as movements, gestures, and sounds of persons communicating. Which of the following describes the focus of Performance Art?

It replaces traditional stationary artworks.

Which of the following describes Joseph Beuys's purpose for his art?

It was illuminating the condition of modern humanity.

The terms gestural abstraction and action painting are most appropriately applied to the work of ____.

Jackson Pollock

John Cage encouraged his students to link their art to which of the following?

Life

​____ is known for her assembled sculptures of found wood objects and forms.

Louise Nevelson

A leader in Performance Art, John Cage brought to music the ideas of ____ and Eastern philosophy.

Marcel Duchamp

The New York artist whose paintings became compositionally simple and focused on color was ____.

Mark Rothko

Which of the following describes Happenings?

Participatory

____ sought to harness the communicative power of art to reach a wide audience.

Pop Art

How did Carolee Schneeman transform Performance Art?

She introduced a feminist dimension

Beuys wanted "to shape our thoughts into words." Which of the following did he want to create?

Social sculptures

How did museum commissions of performance events neutralize Performance Art?

The commissions neutralized the subversiveness.

Which of the following was the purpose of Performance Art?

To challenge art's function as commodity

​Critics referrred to Graves's Portland Building as ____.

an enlarged jukebox

Post-painterly Abstractionists differed from Abstract Expressionists in their ____.

cool, detached rationality

​Color field painting emphasized painting's basic properties. Color field painters poured diluted paint onto unprimed canvas. Which of the following artists was a color field painter?

​Helen Frankenthaler

Who was the sculptor who gravitated toward motion sculpture?

​Jean Tinguely

Artists of the New York School of Abstract Expressionism produced paintings that are abstract but ____.

​express the artist's state of mind

Pollock's painting technique highlights the most significant aspect of gestural abstraction—the emphasis on ____.

​the creative process

To distinguish their performances from "happenings," Fluxus artists named theirs ____.

"events"

Cindy Sherman addressed the way that much Western art presents female beauty for the ____.

"male gaze"


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