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.