Introduction to Humanities

Medievalism

19th-century American architectural structures such as the Smithsonian Museum in Washington and portions of the Harvard and Yale campuses reflect the period's interest in:

Of social constraints and the fetishizing of chastity

According to Virginia Woolf, 16th-century women didn't write plays because:

Friedrich

All except which of the following Romantics were British:

All of the above

An important component of the music known as jazz:

The moral life of individuals

Christian existentialists focus upon:

Everyday life

Constable's paintings usually focus on:

Exoticism

Cordier's African and Nash's Royal Pavilion were expressions of nineteenth-century:

Did not depend on music

Cunningham's choreography was considered radical because it:

There are a fixed number of species

Darwin's writings affirmed all but which of the following?

Dehumanizing reality of travel for the poor

Daumier's "Third Class Carriage" emphasizes the:

Light

Discoveries in the physics of ______________ profoundly influenced late nineteenth century art:

All of the above

Edvard Munch's The Scream:

Is not a love song

Eliot's "Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock":

Feelings

For Matisse, color and shape reflect:

Sex

Freud theorized that human instinct was driven by:

A means of propaganda focusing on the heroism of Napoleon

Gros' works depicting Napoleon are considered:

Leisure activities

Impressionist painters were generally most interested in which of the following subjects:

Must be classed among humankind's mass delusions

In Civilization and Its Discontents, Freud says that religion:

The aristocracy

In Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People, the "people" include all except:

She wishes to stand alone and make her own decisions

In Ibsen's Doll House, Nora leaves Torvald because:

On the grounds of morality

In My Bondage and My Freedom, Douglass confesses that he stole food:

A musical phrase used to identify a particular person, object, or idea.

In Wagnerian opera, a leitmotif is:

The stereotypical equivalent of "Aunt Jemima"

In Walker's short story, Elethia, "Uncle Albert" is:

Industry and urban life

In futurism, artistic production is ideally linked to:

Imagination

In his diary, Napoleon places great emphasis on the power of:

Frankly describes the harsh realities of life for African Americans

In his writing, Richard Wright:

The proletariat

In the Communist Manifesto, Marc and Engels envision as the new ruling class:

A pared-down, abstract style

In their poems, the imagist poets tried to achieve:

Deny the intentions or direction of the artist

Jason Pollack's "action painting" did not:

Devoted to submission and weakness

John Stuart Mill argues that, traditionally, men have wanted women to be:

Manifested in myths, fairy tales, and dreams

Jung described the collective unconscious as:

Blacks will always be strangers in the white world

King's letter from a Birmingham jail asserts that:

Prometheus

Mary Shelly's Frankenstein parallels the tragedy of which mythological hero?

Was informed by the motto "form follows function"

Mid-twentieth-century architecture:

The orchestra grew to grand proportions

Of 19th-century music it is true to say that:

Graphically describes the experience of battle

Owens' Dulce et decorum est:

An awesome power that is overwhelming

Painters of the sublime often viewed nature as

Cezanne

Picasso's Demoiselles d'Avignon was influenced by all but which of the following:

He defined the Greek gods

Prometheus was a favorite fiction character because:

Admiration for his heroic actions

Pushkin's general attitude towards Napoleon was:

The sum of his or her actions

Sartre held that each individual is:

Applied as dots of pure color

Seurat believed that, to best reflect how the eye perceives color, paint should be:

Use of polytonality and syncopation

Stravinsky's Rite of Spring is most notable for its:

Used the arts for ideological purposes

The Communist Revolution in China:

Monet

The French artist whole painting gave name to the impressionist school was:

Satirical appropriations of traditional stereotypes

The artist Betye Saar and Robert Colescott address themes of racial discrimination through:

Courbet

The artist that said "Show me an angel and I'll paint one" was:

Poison gas

The combat weapon that devastates the soldiers in All Quiet on the Western Front is:

Aryan racial superiority

The holocaust was inspired by Hitler's theory of:

Lyrical Ballads

The landmark work that marked the birth of the romantic movement was:

Stalin

The leading political figure to emerge from the Russian Revolution of 1917 was:

Social realism

The literary style that dominated American fiction and the visual arts as a result of the Great Depression was:

Primarily decorative

The murals of Tom Hart Benton were not:

Use of American folk tunes

The music composer Aaron Copland is notable for its:

Imitate the clarity of the classical sonata form

The music of Debussy did not:

International style in architecture

The name Gropius and Le Corbusier are associate with the:

Ballet

The name Taglioni is associated with:

Religious history

The new historicists brought critical and controversial study to the field of:

A taste of teacake

The object that triggers the recollection of the past for Proust was a:

Harlem Renaissance

The poet Langston Hughes and Gwendolyn Brooks were writers of the:

Underscores the failings of Western moral values

The poetry of Muhammad Iqbal:

A scientist with an unlimited thirst for knowledge

The protagonist in Goethe's Faust is:

Insect

The protagonist of Kafka's Metamorphosis wakes to find himself transformed into a giant:

Stream-of-consciousness monologues

The songcycles of Schoenberg are reminiscent of the writings of Proust in their use of:

Independent-minded

The stereotype of the female least often presented by 19-century male writers pictures womankind as:

Freed itself of rational control

The surrealist movement was devoted to making art that:

Economic exploitation of Latin America by American corporations

The theme of Neruda's poem, "The United Fruit Co." Is the:

Degas

The work of the photographer Eadweard Muybridge had a major impact on the art of:

All of the above

Theater of the absurd is characterized by:

Valued intuition of self-reliance

Transcendentalism

Distorted flesh tones

Unlike the impressionists, Toulouse-Lautrec:

A smooth veneer

Van Gogh's work features all of the following except:

They okay with Western stereotypes of feminine beauty and sexuality

What do the sculptures of Nikki de Saint Phalle and the photographs of Cindy Sherman have in common?

He commits suicide

What tragic ending does Goethe's Young Wether meet?

The realities of the holocaust went unrecorded in literature

What was not true of the era of total war and totalitarianism?

All of the above

Which artist's work, The Fountain, questioned the vary nature of what is art?

Goya

Which of the following Romantic artists created a series of prints focusing on the brutality and horror of war?

Embraces the enlightenment emphasis on reason

Which of the following does not accurately describe the Romantic personality?

Lee Miller

Which of the following filmmakers is not associated with the use of film as both propaganda and fine art:

He presented a well-reasoned, philosophic system

Which of the following is untrue about the philosopher Nietzsche?

Matisse

Which of the following names is not associated with nonobjective art?

Manet and birds

Which of the following pairs, linking artists with subject matter, is incorrect?

Kurosawa's The Seven Samurai

Which of the following work does not reflect the existentialist interest in the anti-hero?

An object as rest of in the state of constant velocity tends to remain in the state unless acted upon by some outside force

Which of these was not a new scientific concept in the 20th century?

Hopper

Who was not associated with the movement known as abstract expressionism?

Turner

Wordsworth perception of nature as sublime was most closely echoed in the painting of: