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51 Cards in this Set
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The "Manifesto" was the founding document of ________.
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Futurism
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The ________ movement, founded in 1917 in Holland, sought to integrate painting, sculpture, architecture, and industrial design, and championed a "pure" abstraction.
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De Stijl
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Brancusi's Bird in Space (fig. 21.18) evokes ________.
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The flight of the bird
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Joan Miró is one of the most accomplished practitioners of ________.
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automatism
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________ was the leading painter of the De Stijl movement.
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Piet Mondrian
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Parade (fig. 21.13) was used as a curtain for a ________ ballet.
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Surrealistic
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________ by Henri Matisse perfectly encapsulates the tenets of Fauvism in its "raw contrasts of pure color in flat planes."
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Woman With a Hat
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Die Brücke and Der Blaue Reiter were two separate branches of ________.
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German Expressionism
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Salvador Dalí was a(n) ________.
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Surrealist
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________ viewed Dada as a kind of "anti-art."
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Marcel Duchamp
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Igor Stravinsky composed the ballet score to ________.
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The Rite of Spring
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Cubism was a movement that emphasized creating the illusion of reality by representing an object from a single vantage point. True or false?
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False, cubism has many vantage points
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Vassily Kandinsky founded the German Expressionist movement Die Brücke. True or false?
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False, he founded Der Blaue Reiter
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The leader of the Fauves was Henri Matisse. True or false?
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True
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In FSA photographer Walker Evan's Washroom and Dining Area of Floyd Burrough's Home, Hale County, Alabama (fig. 21.31), 1936, there are visual echoes of ________.
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Mondrian's Pure abstractions
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________ is in a number of ways responsible for the invention of fascism.
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Benito Mussolini
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Nazi's were proponents of the policy of ________, which they claimed justified the geographic expansion of the "superior" German race into territories of other countries.
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Lebensraum
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________ was a writer who chronicled the American South.
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William Faulkner
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________ instituted the New Deal in response to the Great Depression.
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Franklin D Roosevelt
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Edward Hopper is associated with ________.
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Regioinalism
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Thomas Hart Benton is best known for his ________.
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murals
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The American artist ________ had a primary interest in natural forms and colors and subject matter such as flowers and animal bones.
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Georgia O'Keeffe
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The stories of ________ explore ideas from Christianity that transcend the confines of Southern Regionalism.
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Flannery O'Connor
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Duke Ellington is associated with ________.
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swing music
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Diego Rivera was a Mexican artist who is famous for his small, precisely rendered sculptures. True or false?
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False
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James Joyce use a stream of consciousness technique to get readers into the character's minds. True or false?
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True
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Martha Graham was a pioneer of American Modernist dance. True or false?
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True
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Two Modernist American poets influential because of the complex, multifaceted, technically innovative and densely allusive works are Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot. True or false?
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True
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The goal of such Russian artists as Kasimir Malevich and El Lissitzky was to bring art to the masses; thus, these artists saw their art as a political tool. True or false?
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True
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Isabel Allende's novel The House of Spirits (1982) creates a fictional world that reconstructs the history of ________.
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Chile
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Frida Kahlo's self-portrait, The Two Fridas (fig. 22.8), shows the influence of the ________ artistic style.
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Surrealism
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Chinua Achebe uses ________ to show the changing economic, political, and cultural situation in Africa.
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novels
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One of the most characteristic types of African art is the ________.
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mask
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The Los Tres Grandes referred to the ________.
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three painters of the mural movement in Mexico
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The role of African music is as ________.
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an expression of their belief system
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According to Benton and DiYanni, ________ was not one of the three commodities from Africa that came into demand as the desire for slave labor decreased.
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coffee
the three commodities are palm oil, latex and gum arabic |
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The Yoruba have images carved of ere ibeji or ________.
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twins
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Mexico's president Alvaro Obregón initiate ________ in 1920 to restore Mexico's indigenous cultural identity.
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a mural movement
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The meeting held from 1884 to 1885, which resulted in the division of the African continent among Great Britain, France, Germany, Belgium, Italy, Portugal, and Spain, was called the ________.
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Conference of Berlin
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The message, for the Mexican people, of Sigueiros' large-scale mural, Cuauhtémoc Against the Myth (fig. 22.7 ) was that ________.
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indigenous people could regain power
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Jorge Luis Borges often merges the "real" with the imaginary so that his readers become disoriented and are forced to reconsider the relationship between ________.
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fiction and reality
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In 1800, the transatlantic slave trade was reaching its peak, with nearly ________ enslaved Africans transported to the Americas each year.
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100,000
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________ is known for his/her "swollen" figures that fill the canvas like balloons and satirize the Latin American ruling elite.
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Fernando Botero
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________ is best known for his ficciones.
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Jorge Luis Borges
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Sonny Okosun's blend of African and Western sounds are based on the Ghanaian music known as highlife. True or false?
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True
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The Sengalese scholar Leopold Senghor founded the movement called negritude which stressed the cultural achievements and unity of all people of African descent. True or false?
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True
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Solomon Linda, the Zulu musician who wrote Mbube (The Lion Sleeps Tonight), sold the rights in 1952 for $1,000,000.00 dollars.
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False, only got 1 dollar
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John Maxwell Coetzee is a Nigerian painter. True or false?
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False
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Proxylin is a lacquer developed as an automobile paint that was used by David Alfaro Siqueiros. True or false?
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True
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Isabel Allende's The House of Spirits reconstructs in fictional form the history of her country: Chile. True or false?
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True
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The "red rubber scandal" was exposed by Brazilians in the 1950s. True or false?
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False
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