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________ determined that light waves behave as “quanta,” breaking up into discrete and separate bundles of energy.
a. Planck
b. Einstein
c. Heisenberg
d. Michelson and Morley |
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Which of the following determined that the speed of light is a universal constant, perhaps the only thing that never changes?
a. Planck
b. Einstein
c. Heisenberg
d. Michelson and Morley |
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The leaders in the search for a more concentrated style of poetic expression were a group of poets who called themselves
a. verbalists.
b. distillers.
c. imagists.
d. deconstructuralists. |
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At the forefront of the modernist revolution in poetry stood the American expatriate ________, who studied the literatures of many peoples in the East and West.
a. Sanders
b. Frost
c. Tennyson
d. Pound |
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The plain-speech American poet who penned “The Road Not Taken” is which of the following?
a. Sanders
b. Frost
c. Tennyson
d. Pound |
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One of the central tenets of modernism, ________ sought to arrive at a more concentrated emotional experience through visual art.
a. op art
b. pop art
c. mannerism
d. abstraction |
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Picasso’s bold, new style of painting was shaped by two forces: the arts of Africa, Iberia, and Oceana; and the paintings of
a. Delacroix.
b. Cézanne.
c. Capote.
d. Rockwell. |
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Picasso’s new “language” of painting was called
a. Bluism.
b. Cubism.
c. paintism.
d. retractable art. |
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The ________ were enthralled by the speed and dynamism of automobiles, trains, airplanes, and technology in general.
a. assembly artists
b. Beaux Artists
c. Futurists
d. tekkies |
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Which of the following led the group of painters who made color the principal feature of their canvases in this era?
a. Manet
b. Matisse
c. Monet
d. Cézanne |
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The Russians Kandinsky and Malevich, and the Dutchman Mondrian were all pioneers of which of the following artistic movements?
a. nonobjective art
b. abstraction
c. assemblage
d. Futurism |
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Prairie School architecture and a clear influence from Japanese structure were the signatures of
a. Sullivan.
b. Wright.
c. Kandinsky.
d. Gropius. |
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Which of the following was the principle founder of the Bauhaus?
a. Le Corbusier
b. Wright
c. Sullivan
d. Gropius |
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Insisting that the house “is a machine for living,” which of the following championed form over function and employed devices such as roof gardens, partitions, and large façades of glass?
a. Le Corbusier
b. Wright
c. Sullivan
d. Gropius |
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Of all his discoveries, Freud considered his research on ________ his most important.
a. psychoanalysis
b. dreams
c. free association
d. sexual drives |
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Most psychic disorders, according to Freud, were the result of which of the following?
a. genetic propensity
b. diet and lifestyle
c. sexual trauma suffered as a child
d. chemical imbalances in the brain |
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| sexual trauma suffered as a child |
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Which of the following is NOT a member of the three-part psyche as identified by Freud?
a. id
b. ego
c. superego
d. superid |
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The positive modification and redirection of primal urges is termed
a. reward.
b. contraindication.
c. sublimation.
d. behavioral reinforcement. |
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Jung’s idea of a shared layer of human psyche, a layer all humans are tied to, is called
a. the collective unconscious.
b. the force layer.
c. the veil.
d. social contract theory. |
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| the collective unconscious |
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Primal patterns from the realm of the shared layer of human psyche such as myths, dreams, and fairy tales are called
a. mythemes.
b. signposts.
c. guides.
d. archetypes. |
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Which of the following Irish expatriates popularized the literary interior monologue and stream-of-consciousness writing?
a. Proust
b. Kafka
c. Joyce
d. Cummings |
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Which of the following was a virtual shut-in who, from his cork-lined room in France, pursued a life of introspection and literary achievement?
a. Proust
b. Kafka
c. Joyce
d. Cummings |
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Which of the following is the minimalist poet famous for odd punctuation and refusing to capitalize his name in print?
a. Proust
b. Kafka
c. Joyce
d. Cummings |
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Which of the following writers was so paranoid about the ills of society that he directed his lawyers upon his own death to destroy all his works, a request which was fortunately ignored?
a. Proust
b. Kafka
c. Joyce
d. Cummings |
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Edvard Munch’s The Scream exemplifies which of the following schools of painting?
a. the baroque
b. Op Art
c. Expressionism
d. abstract art |
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A mode of artistic representation in which commonplace objects and events are exaggerated or juxtaposed in unexpected ways to evoke a mood of mystery or fantasy is called
a. magic realism.
b. realistic fantasia.
c. Surrealism.
d. modernism. |
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The ________ movement, founded in Switzerland, consisted of a loosely knit group of European painters and poets who, perceiving WWI as evidence of a world gone mad, dedicated themselves to spreading the gospel of irrationality.
a. Bauhaus
b. Pop
c. Dada
d. Abstract |
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One of modernism’s most distinctive movements, ________ was devoted to giving physical expression to the workings of the unconscious mind.
a. Surrealism
b. Realistic Fantasia
c. performance art
d. assemblage |
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The decade of the Holocaust and the devastation of World War II prompted the Postmodern shift from an Industrial Age (dominated by farming and manufacturing) to a(n)
a. Computer Age.
b. Service-sector Age.
c. Information Age.
d. Neo-Renaissance. |
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The two key contributing factors to today’s historical age as explained by the text are
a. trans-global communications and computers.
b. television and computers.
c. television and cell phones.
d. television and the European Union. |
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The world’s first online, nonprofit English-language encyclopedia, ________, was launched in 2001.
a. Britannica
b. the World Wide Web
c. Google
d. Wikipedia |
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As communications theorist Marshall McLuhan famously observed, “the ________ is the message.”
a. audience
b. medium
c. feedback
d. message |
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String theory seeks to unite quantum physics with which of the following?
a. the Doppler effect
b. gravity
c. the theory of relativity
d. time and spatial theory |
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The proponents of ________ find that universal patterns underlie the seemingly random operations of nature.
a. deist theory
b. Superstring Theory
c. String Theory
d. Chaos Theory |
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________ became the popular mode of analysis in philosophy, linguistics, and literary criticism in the late twentieth century.
a. Deconstruction
b. Reconstruction
c. Dialectic
d. Rhetoric |
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________ artists appropriate (or borrow) pre-existing texts and images from history, advertising, and the media.
a. Abstract
b. Modernist
c. Mannerist
d. Postmodern |
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________ is a literary genre that gives an original (and fictionalized) narrative context to contemporary events and situations.
a. “Old” media
b. Subjectivism
c. Docufiction
d. All these answers are correct. |
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Arthur C. Clarke, H. G. Wells, Jules Verne, and Isaac Asimov all write within what literary genre?
a. nonfiction
b. suspense
c. science fiction
d. poetry |
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________, the quintessential style of the Information Age, embraced the imagery of consumerism and celebrity culture as mediated by television, film, and magazines.
a. Abstraction
b. Neoclassicism
c. Op art
d. Pop art |
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The oversized paintings of ________, modeled on comic-book cartoons, bring attention to familiar clichés and stereotypes of popular entertainment.
a. Oldenburg
b. Lichtenstein
c. Johns
d. Warhol |
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The operation of conflicting visual cues and the elemental effects of colors and shapes on the faculties of the human retina is a style known as
a. Abstraction
b. Neoclassicism
c. Op art
d. Pop art |
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Not overtly political nor even necessarily critical of the status quo, ________ seeks to transform society by awakening its visionary potential.
a. subjective art
b. commentary art
c. social conscience art
d. total art |
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A classic kind of total art, ________, was pioneered by the American artist Allan Kaprow (1927–2006). Kaprow, who coined the name for this conceptual genre, called it “a performance that occurs in a given time and space.”
a. the Happening
b. the Be-in
c. performance art
d. total art |
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In 1962, the Canadian communications theorist Marshall McLuhan predicted the electronic transformation of the planet earth into a “________.”
a. spaceship
b. global village
c. single computer
d. billion individual nations |
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Edward Osborn Wilson’s early work in evolutionary biology examined parallels between ants and other animal societies, including those of human beings; and more recently he has proposed a new type of interdisciplinary research which he calls “________,” that works to improve the human condition.
a. Globalism
b. devolution
c. humanistic reconstructuralism
d. scientific humanism |
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Robert Smithson pioneered one of the most important ecological landmarks of the late twentieth century, the piece known as ________, a 1,500 foot-long coil consisting of 6,650 tons of local black basalt, limestone, and earth.
a. Remains
b. Spiral Graph
c. Twist
d. Spiral Jetty |
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The Swiss Re building is called “the Gherkin” by Londoners and is famous for which of the following reasons?
a. It is a solid green color.
b. It is environmentally sustainable.
c. It is independently nuclear-powered.
d. It is essentially a tent shaped like a gigantic dome. |
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| It is environmentally sustainable |
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An ongoing counterpoint to Globalism is the recurring emphasis in the arts regarding which of the following?
a. nationalism
b. ethnicity
c. religiosity
d. anarchy |
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“________,” the exercise of power by means of group solidarity, has often pitted ethnic groups against each other in militant opposition.
a. Coup d’etat
b. Identity politics
c. Putsch
d. Junta |
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Probably the greatest single threat to the global community is ________, the deliberate and systematic use of violence against civilians in order to achieve political, religious, or ideological goals.
a. terrorism
b. pacification
c. sabotage
d. exploitation |
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It is widely believed that ________ will be the next great global power.
a. India
b. the People’s Republic of China
c. Iran
d. Korea |
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Nam June Paik initiated the ________ genre with performance pieces and electronic installations. More ambitious in size and conception, however, are the artist’s multi-screen television installations. Megatron (1995), for instance, consists of 215 monitors.
a. digital art
b. computer art
c. viewer art
d. video art |
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________ is art in which the computer is employed as a primary tool, medium, or creative partner.
a. Digital art
b. Computer art
c. Viewer art
d. Video art |
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Perhaps the most intriguing computer-driven form of interactive art is ________, a technology that allows the user to interact with a computer-simulated environment.
a. object-oriented design
b. the matrix
c. virtual reality
d. computer-aided design (CAD) |
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While ________ directly contributes to the blending of different ethnic populations, it has inspired efforts to maintain distinctive ethnic values and traditions.
a. civil war
b. immigration
c. globalization
d. the mass media |
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| Umberto Boccioni - Unique Forms of Continuity in Space |
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| Frank Lloyd Wright - Falling Water House |
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| Marcel Duchamp - Fountain |
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| Frida Kahlo - The Broken Column |
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| Andy Warhol - Mint Marilyn Monroe |
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| Santiago Calatrava - Milwaukee Art Museum |
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| Frank Gehry - Walt Disney Concert Hall |
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| Robert Smithson - Spiral Jetty |
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