intro to humanities final ch 10-15
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony
Which of the following terms refers to women militantly advocating for the voting rights of females?
suffragettes
percusion
timpani / kettledrums
"New Media Art" describes art that makes use of digital technologies, such as computer graphics, computer animation, Internet art, and a variety of interactive technologies.
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Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique was a landmark feminist book which claimed that American society - particularly commercial advertising - had brainwashed women to prefer the roles of wives and mothers to other careers.
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Betye Saar's The Liberation of Aunt Jemima (pictured below) is an artwork that attacks the icons of commercial white culture by transforming the familiar symbol of American pancakes into a gun-toting version of the "mammy" stereotype.
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By the year 1800, ballet had moved from the royal court to the theater, where it was enjoyed as middle-class entertainment and gained immense popularity in the Romantic era.
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Classical music shares the essential features of symmetry, balance, and formal restraint with Neoclassical art, however classical composers had no surviving evidence of Greek or Roman music upon which to imitate and model their compositions.
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Francisco Goya's The Third of May, 1808 was the painter's response to the execution of the citizens of Madrid by Napoleon's troops after an uprising of Spanish citizens against the French army of occupation.
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Frederic Chopin was a Romantic composer most closely associated with his compositions for the piano.
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Globalism refers to the interdependence between all parts of the world, which was forged over the last six decades in the technology of mass communication.
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Green buildings refers to architectural structures that are both friendly to the ecosystem and energy efficient.
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Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House was a landmark drama of female liberation, tracing the awakening of a middle-class woman, Nora Helmer, to the meaninglessness of her role as "a doll-wife" living in "a doll's house."
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Which of the following writers defined poetry as "the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings" which takes its origin "from emotion recollected in tranquility"?
William Wordsworth
Fugue
A polyphonic composition in which a single musical theme is re-stated in sequential phrases, similar to a musical round.
Silkscreen
A printmaking technique that transfers a stenciled image onto paper or cloth.
Recitative
A rhythmically free vocal style popular in 17th century opera in which passages are spoken or recited to sparse chordal accompaniment.
Which of the following terms refers to a radical new art style that developed in New York City in the 1940s, in which artists applied paint in a loose, free, and instinctive manner that emphasized the physical act of painting itself?
Abstract Expressionism
All of the following statements are true of the events of June 1989 at Tiananmen Square, except which one?
After the Tiananmen Square demonstrations, official efforts to control the arts have tightened even further and large-scale censorship has continued to worsen.
Claude Debussy
Afternoon of a Faun
Which of the following writings pictures a society in which modern technology and the techniques of human engineering operate to destroy our freedom?
Aldous Huxley's Brave New World
The term leitmotif refers to a short musical theme that designates a person, object, place, or idea and that reappears throughout a musical composition.
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John Keats
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Aldous Huxley
Brave New World
Johann Sebastian Bach
Cantata
Giacomo Puccini
La Boheme
Which of the following figures are associated with the Transcendentalists?
Henry David Thoreau Ralph Waldo Emerson
Robert Frost
The Road Not Taken
All of the following statements are true of the artistic movement known as Dada, except which one?
Dada was founded as an art movement that was only focused upon the visual arts, such as painting and sculpture.
Cantata
A multimovement composition for voices or instrumental accompaniment, and the most important component of Lutheran worship.
Oratorio
A musical setting of a religious or epic text, for soloists, chorus, and orchestra, which is usually performed without scenery, costumes, or dramatic action.
Prelude
A piece of instrumental music that introduces a church service or another piece of music.
Minuet
A graceful dance in three-quarter meter and moderate tempo, which was very popular in the court of Louis XIV.
Earthwork
A kind of artistic installation that takes the natural landscape as both its medium and its subject.
Minimalism
An artistic style that eliminates representational subject matter in favor of simple, geometric shapes.
Pop Art
An artistic style that glorifies the imagery of consumer products, celebrities, and everyday events as mediated by television, film, and magazines.
Aria
An elaborate solo song or duet performed as part of an opera or other dramatical musical composition.
Symphony
An independent instrumental composition for a full orchestra, and the largest form of Classical composition.
Concerto
An instrumental composition consisting of two groups of instruments - one small and one large - playing in "dialog."
Sonata
An instrumental composition written for an unaccompanied keyboard or for another instrument with keyboard accompaniment, which consists of three movements of contrasting tempo (usually fast/slow/fast).
Overture
An instrumental introduction to a longer musical piece, such as an opera.
All of the following statements are true of Andy Warhol, except which one?
Andy Warhol was the pioneer American Minimalist artist.
Which of the following composers was known for writing concertos, the most famous being a group of four violin concertos called "The Four Seasons"?
Antonio Vivaldi
"Art in nature, nature in art" was the motto of which of the following visual arts movements?
Art Nouveau
Which of the following artists was considered the leading sculptor of the late 19th century?
Auguste Rodin
All of the following statements are true of Baroque composer Johann Sebastian Bach, except which one?
Bach's favorite instrument was the violin. `
All of the following statements are true of Ludwig van Beethoven, except which one?
Beethoven wrote much of his greatest music when he was functionally blind.
All of the following statements are true of Gianlorenzo Bernini and his artwork, except which one?
Bernini was the leading Italian painter of the 17th century, known for using a perspective device called foreshortening to enhance the illusionism of his paintings.
All of the following statements are true of the 20th century musical genre called jazz, except which one?
Blues was as an instrumental form of music that contributed to the development of jazz with its highly syncopated rhythms and simple, appealing melodies.
All of the following statements are true of King Louis XIV, except which one?
By the end of his reign, Louis XIV left France in a state of economic strength and financial leadership.
All of the following statements are true of Caravaggio, except which one?
Caravaggio painted using the traditional Grand Style of his High Renaissance predecessors, with noble figures, dignified settings, and graceful symmetry.
Georges Bizet
Carmen
All of the following statements are true of Edouard Manet and his iinfamous painting, Luncheon on the Grass (pictured below), except which one?
Luncheon on the Grass was submitted to the Paris Salon of 1863, and was accepted and praised by the jury of the Royal Academy.
Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Crime and Punishment
All of the following statements are true of Frederick Douglass, except which one?
Douglass wrote a fictional novel based on his experiences as a slave, called Confessions of Frederick Douglass.
All of the following statements are true of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., except which one?
Dr. King was a college professor of philosophy and the president of the NAACP.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Faust
All of the following statements are true of feminism, except which one?
Feminism is a purely modern phenomenon, its earliest history dating back to the late 19th century.
All of the following statements are true of Richard Wagner, except which one?
Wagner was an English composer, known for drawing almost exclusively on heroic themes from England's medieval past.
Henry David Thoreau
Walden, or Life in the Woods
Leo Tolstoy
War and Peace
H.G. Wells
War of the Worlds
In America, homosexuals date the birth of their "liberation" to June 1969, when they publicly protested a police raid on the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York's Greenwich Village.
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Mary Shelley
Frankenstein
All of the following statements are true of Artemisia Gentileschi, except which one?
Gentileschi rejected the dramatic techniques of Caravaggio, and instead chose to create her paintings in a lighter and more idealized manner.
Which of the following composers was known for writing oratorios, the most famous of which is "Messiah"?
George Frederic Handel
Langston Hughes
Harlem (also known as A Dream Deferred)
All of the following statements are true of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, except which one?
In the story, the scientist-philosopher Victor Frankenstein discovers the secret of immortality, and ends up turning himself into a monster endowed with supernatural strength.
All of the following statements are true of Jacques-Louis David's famous painting The Oath of the Horatii (pictured below), except which one?
In this painting, Jacques-Louis David shunned weighty realism in favor of idealism and purity of line.
Proletariat
Industrial workers who lack their own means of production and hence sell their labor to make a living.
All of the following statements are true of the birth of photography, except which one?
It was in the genre of landscape photography that the new medium of photography would first achieve artistic and social significance.
Libretto
Italian for "little book," this term refers to the text of a vocal work, such as an opera or oratorio.
All of the following statements are true of Jackson Pollock, except which one?
Jackson Pollock explored color-field painting, involving the application of large layers of paint to the surface of the canvas.
Which of the following poets is known for the closing lines of his famous poem, reading: "'Beauty is truth, truth beauty' - that is all / Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know"?
John Keats
Vladimir Lenin and the Bolsheviks agreed with and used the political ideology of which of the following figures from a previous chapter?
Karl Marx
All of the following statements are true of Karl Marx, except which one?
Karl Marx disagreed with the socialists, and did not believe that bourgeois capitalism corrupted humanity.
Walt Whitman
Leaves of Grass
William Wordsworth
Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey
All of the following statements are true of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, except which one?
Mozart invented many new forms of music.
Charles Dickens
Oliver Twist
George Frederic Handel
Oratorio
Percy Shelley
Ozymandias
Which of the following artists abandoned his wife, his children, and his job in Paris to move to Tahiti and become an artist?
Paul Gauguin
Which of the following is a contemporary American musical composer, known for minimalist music?
Philip Glass
Georges Seurat's Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte (pictured below) is an example of which of the following terms?
Pointillism
Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice
All of the following statements are true of Rembrandt van Rijn, except which one?
Rembrandt was very famous and wealthy throughout his entire life and career, and he never struggled for money.
All of the following statements are true of Modernism and the Modernists, except which one?
Some of the modernist styles of art included Neoclassicism, Romanticism, and Realism.
Mark Twain
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
All of the following statements are true of the American Declaration of Independence, except which one?
The Declaration of Independence was written by Enlightenment philosopher John Locke.
All of the following statements are true of the Eiffel Tower (pictured below), except which one?
The Eiffel Tower was constructed from bronze and wood.
All of the following statements are true of the Harlem Renaissance, except which one?
The Harlem Renaissance emerged just after the end of the Civil War, when millions of newly freed slaves moved to the northern states.
All of the following statements are true of Romanticism, except which one?
The Romantics looked towards the Church and ancient history as sources of inspiration.
T.S. Eliot
The Waste Land
Choreography
The art of composing, arranging, and notating dance movements.
All of the following statements are true of Goethe's Faust, except which one?
The character of "Mephistopheles" in Faust represents God.
All of the following statements are true of Walt Whitman, except which one?
The first edition of Whitman's Leaves of Grass was met with great enthusiasm and acclaim for its freewheeling verse, overt sexuality, and celebration of the diversity of America.
Which of the following are some of the main beliefs of Jean-Paul Satre's existentialism?
The human condition is one of anxiety experienced in the face of nothingness and the inevitability of death. Each individual is the sum of his or her own actions. Humans are not imprisoned by the unconscious forces asserted by Freud. Humans choose what we become, and we have no fixed nature.
ego
The manager of the psyche that functions to adapt the needs of human instinct to the real world.
superego
The moral monitor of the psyche, or the "conscience" that operates according to principles instilled by parents, teachers, and social authorities.
id
The seat of human instincts within the pysche, and the source of all physical desires.
All of the following statements are true of Charles Darwin and his landmark writing, On the Origin of Species, except which one?
The theory of evolution originated with Darwin, and his theory denied the idea of a divine Creator and the existence of God.
All of the following statements are true of John Milton and his famous work, Paradise Lost, except which one?
The twelve books of Paradise Lost retell the story of the birth and death of Jesus Christ.
All of the following statements are true of Pablo Picasso's Guernica (pictured below), except which one?
This painting depicts an event that happened during World War I.
All of the following statements are true of Dorothea Lange's Migrant Mother (pictured below), except which one?
This photograph was taken during World War I, representing the war-time famines spreading throughout Europe.
Capitalists
Those who provide the investments for an economic venture, and who organize, manage, and assume the risks of a business.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Uncle Tom's Cabin
All of the following statements are true of Vincent van Gogh, except which one?
Van Gogh was a very prolific and successful artist during his lifetime, creating and selling hundreds of paintings and drawings.
Collage and assemblage are similar in that they both depend upon the combination of found objects and materials, but assemblages use 2-D materials such as newspapers, wallpaper, and photographs, while collages use 3-D materials that are built up and pieced together.
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Italy's leading composer, Giuseppe Verdi, is most well known for his 26 symphonies in the Classical style.
false
Robert Frost was an American poet who was a student of Asian calligraphy, and who drew inspiration from the Japanese poetic genre known as haiku.
false
The Surrealist art movement paid homage to Sigmund Freud and his writings on free association and dream analysis.
false
Walt Whitman was a writer who abandoned urban society to live in the Massachusetts woods near Walden Pond - an experiment that lasted 26 months.
false
woodwinds
flutes, oboes, clarinets, bassoons
Franz Kafka
metamorphosis
Ralph Waldo Emerson
nature
Claudio Monteverdi
opera
Jane Austen's novels are known for focusing on the comic contradictions between human actions and values, and for her heroines, who are often intelligent and generous in spirit, concerned with reconciling economic security with proper social and moral behavior.
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Mannerism was an artistic style that was marked by spatial complexity, artificiality, and affectation, and mannerist artists brought a new psychological intensity to their works.
true
One of the central features of 19th century Romanticism was its love affair with nature and the natural, and the Romantic view of nature was nothing short of religious.
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One of the most disquieting short stories of the 20th century is Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis, which is the story of a man, Gregor Samsa, who awakens one morning to find that he has turned into a large insect.
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Paul Cezanne's painting methods displayed in Mont Sainte-Victoire (pictured below) led the way to Modernist abstraction.
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Ralph Ellison's The Invisible Man is a novel that probes the black estrangement from white culture, with a protagonist who perceives himself to be "invisible" to the white world.
true
Realist painters preferred concrete, matter-of-fact depictions of everyday life that provided a sober alternative to the earlier Romantic and Neoclassical styles of painting.
true
Rodin's The Thinker (pictured below) is an individual figure originally planned as part of a set of monumental bronze doors called The Gates of Hell, which was based on Dante's Inferno, with The Thinker representing Dante contemplating his own imagined underworld.
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Slave narratives, a unique literary genre written by Africans who suffered the cruelty of the transatlantic slave trade, arose during the 18th century and served to convince readers of the immorality of slavery.
true
Some critics consider Claude Monet's painting Impression: Sunrise (pictured below) to be the first modern painting.
true
The Baroque style is characterized by dynamic movement, extravagant ornamentation, and theatrical display.
true
The Bauhaus was Modernism's most influential school of architecture and applied art, and its instructors promoted new, synthetic materials, starkly simple designs, and the standardization of parts for the production of affordable, mass-produced merchandise and large-scale housing.
true
The Communist Party in Russia/U.S.S.R. established a totalitarian regime, which imposed the will of the state upon the life and conduct of the individual.
true
The Transcendentalists believed that the direct experience of nature united one with God, and they urged human beings to discover their spiritual selves through sympathy with nature.
true
The artistic technique known as collage was introduced around 1912 by the Cubists, most notably Pablo Picasso and his colleague Georges Braque.
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The daguerreotype was a photographic process developed by Louis J.M. Daguerre, which involved light-sensitive metal plates which could not be reproduced - each daguerreotype was unique.
true
The most famous antislavery novel of the 1800s was Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, which sold more than one million copies within a year of publication and stirred up public sentiment against the brutality and injustice of the system.
true
The novels of Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and Leo Tolstoy are all examples of a genre known as literary realism, which was a genre focused upon contemporary life, including the social consequences of middle-class materialism and the plight of the working class.
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The premiere performance of the ballet, The Rite of Spring, with music composed by Igor Stravinsky and choreography by Vaslav Nijinsky, was disrupted shortly after the music began by catcalls, hissing, and booing from the audience, and resulted in police intervention.
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Thomas Jefferson, along with being one of the founders of the United States, was a Neoclassical architect who used Classical and Renaissance models for the design of such buildings as the Virginia State Capitol, the Rotunda of the University of Virginia, and his own country estate in Monticello.
true
Trompe l'oeil is a French term that literally means "fool the eye," and refers to artwork that tries to convince the viewer that the image is real and not painted.
true
Wang Guangyi's Coca-Cola (pictured below) is a contemporary Chinese artwork that makes reference to Mao Zedong and China's Communist Party, as well as a reference to consumerism generated by popular Western commodities.
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brass
trumpets, french horns, trombones
strings
violins, violas, cellos, double basses
