Prelude 7
_____ music left decisions determining the overall shape of a piece to the performer or to chance, rather than being strictly determined by the composer.
Aleatoric
Which is not true of the 1969 Woodstock Festival?
It relied on corporate sponsorship.
Christo and Jeanne-Claude's wrapping of large architectural landmarks in fabric is an example of
installation art
. K. Rowling's Harry Potter books are considered postmodern.
true
Artists in the mid-twentieth century strove to move beyond the principles of modernism.
true
Postmodern art embraces a pluralistic attitude toward gender, sexual orientation, and ethnicity.
true
Postmodern thought welcomes both highbrow and lowbrow artistic influences.
true
Some postmodernist architecture can be described as neo-eclectic.
true
Two trends in electronic music, musique concrète and elektronische Musik, emerged in the
1940s and early 50s
Abstract expressionism in the arts took place in the
1950s and 60s.
______ techniques enabled artists to take something familiar and make it unique.
Collage or quotatio
What is the protocol that allows computers and synthesizers to interface?
MIDI
International exchanges have caused composers to
create an overlapping of styles
Frank Gehry's design for the Walt Disney Concert Hall is a statement against postmodernism.
false
Postmodern art is often anti-feminist and racist.
false
Postmodernism is not found in film.
false
Where did musique concrète develop?
france
The "Red scare" of communism in the 1950s and early 60s saw the blacklisting of all of the following except
george gershwin
Where did elektronische Musik develop?
germany
The modernist architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe believed that "less is more." Robert Venture, a leader in the postmodern movement in architecture, countered with
less is a bore
Postmodernist art
mixes popular and serious idioms is represented in environmental works, collage, and ethnic expressions. embraced neo-Classical, minimalist, and feminist ideals
Twentieth and twenty-first century technologies have affected musicians in which of the following ways?
new bar of performing perfection more performing options opportunity to study and emulate specialists
Which artistic trend drew upon commercial photography and urban life for inspiration?
pop art
Which of the following does NOT characterize postmodernism?
strict adherence to serial techniques
Postmodernists broke away from the modernist stance
that mass media was incompatible with art.
