Exam 23: The Contemporary World: Globalization, Terrorism, and Postmodernism

Which film director's work led to a new genre, blaxploitation film?

Which of the following authors received the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for her work that tells the story of a black woman abused by black men and victimized by white society?

Which of the following architects depended on a "metallic flower" in his design of the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain?

The reforms of Gorbachev in the Soviet Union contributed to

Australia's film boom produced art films that were often

The Young British Artists (the YBA) tend to make art that is

Which of the following artists has made light the principal medium in his art, often depending on fluorescent tubes?

What musical movement helped to play a role in the Arab Spring?

Who founded the Sundance Film Festival in 1980?

Which of the following art styles are identified with postmodernism?

Philip Pearlstein is famous for his paintings of

Which of the following artists began as a neoexpressionist, moved to minimalism in the 1970s, then ultimately mixed the two styles in her work, Maggie's Ponytail?

Which of the following nations is NOT directly involved in NAFTA (North Atlantic Free Trade Association)?

The classical aspect of postmodernism is apparent in

The postmodern novels of Milan Kundera stress the

Atmospheres is the work of which of the following composers?

Which of the following nations instituted a theocratic government after the seizing of an American embassy in 1979?

Use the works of Philip Glass and John Adams to describe postmodern music.

The shift in Soviet-American relations that eased international tensions starting around 1970 is known as

Which of the following artists designed a monument that has become one of the most hallowed and visited places in the United States, standing on the northwest side of the National Mall in Washington,D.C.?