Chapter 31
Pop Art, and art that utilized the techniques of advertising, industrial design, and Hollywood movies were at their heights during which of the following decades?
1960s
Which of the following artists is best known for his large-scale super realism portraits?
Chuck Close
Which artist revealed the racism embedded in received cultural heritage through his work selecting dynamic found objects by encouraging viewer interaction?
David Hammond
Which artist stated that she wanted her pieces to be "non art, non connotative, non anthropomorphic, non geometric, non nothing, everything, but of another kind, vision, sort"?
Eva Hesse
Which of the following painters illustrates Clement Greenberg's insistence on "purity in art"?
Frank Stella
A good example of Postmodernist architecture is _______.
Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao
How does the architecture of Günter Behnisch express Deconstructivist architecture?
It avoids the suggestion of one clear, stable mass
Which of the following describes Joseph Beuys purpose for his art?
It was illuminating the condition of modern humanity
Who was the sculptor who believed that "the only stable thing is movement?"
John Tinguely
The work of _______ deals with the issue of who "controls the body"
Kiki Smith
The New York artist whose paintings became compositionally simple and focused on color best said color fields was ______
Mark Rothko
Hans Haake's work, _______, demonstrated the connection between art and political and economic interests.
MetroMobiltan
Which of the following movements had a great distrust of the Western ideas of progress and objective truth and reviewed all cultures as equally valid?
Postmodernism
______ is the gay artist whose show The Perfect Moment, was cancelled for its openly gay character and other sexually oriented aspects.
Robert Mapplethrope
What was Andy Goldsworthy's Cracked Rock Spiral tribute to?
Robert Smithson and Spiral Jetty
The work of Adrian Piper is provocative and confrontational. She announces in a video installation, "I'm Black." What is her motivation with this pronouncement?
She wants viewers to examine their behaviors and values.
A good example of Postmodernist architecture is ______.
The Portland Building, Portland
Which of the following describes what artists working in the Post-Painterly Abstractionist style believed?
Their works should contain no reference to the world outside their own compositions.
Which of the following describes Kruger's photo-collages?
They challenge cultural attitudes
Which of the following was the purpose if performance art?
To change art's function as a commodity
Barbara Kruger's work takes on the slick design of contemporary advertising. Which of the following is her principal aim?
To expose the deceptiveness of media messages
The architect, ______ was greatly influenced by Kazimir Malevich and his Suprematist theories.
Zaha Hadid
Jenny Holzer's installation at the Guggenheim museum consisted of ____.
a large continuous LED display spiraling the interior ramp.
In her Holocaust Memorial, Rachel Whiteread depicted the shapes of identical books as ____.
a reference to the Jews as "people of the book"
Which of the following describes the Portland Building?
an enlarged jukebox
By placing herself as a spectator of the Last Supper in her Self-Portrait Looking at the Last Supper, Marisol Escobar emphasized the artist as a creator and ____.
as a viewer of earlier artists
How did Barnett Newman increase capacity of color to communicate emotion?
by simplifying the composition
How does faith Ringgold address issues of gender and racism in her work?
by using fabrics, traditionally associated with women and incisive narrative.
When did the center of the Western art world shift from Europe to the United States?
during the 1940s
The harnessing of solar power is one of the central features of _________ architecture.
green
How did the Fluxus group see aesthetic potential?
in the nontraditional and commonplace
The work of Melvin Edwards is very evocative. He uses small metal objects the he intertwines and welds together creating a haunting theme. Which of the following is that theme?
lynching
Which of the following describes Happenings?
participatory
Cindy Sherman works in which medium representing the "male gaze"?
photography
Which of the following describes the work by Jackson Pollock?
significant departure from conventional painting
The incinerated appearance of Anslem Kiefer's Nigredo recalls _____.
the Holocaust
What was the main focus of the work of the postwar New York School?
the act of painting itself
The Polish artist, Krzysztof Wodiczko developed artworks involving _____.
the projection of slide images outdoors