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

Which of the following authors created a book-length poem that revisited Homer's epics and transposed their setting to the Caribbean in the 1900s?

What organization was founded in 1994 to promote free trade?

American Cindy Sherman created a body of performance art characterized in part by

The postmodernist composers Philip Glass and John Adams are famous for their

Which of the following authors was the first Latin American novelist to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature?

Define video art, and discuss the contributions of Nam June Paik to this type of art.

Which of the following nations signed peace treaties with Israel during the late 1970s?

What are the general characteristics of neorealism, neoexpressionism, and neoclassicism? Are there significant similarities among these movements, or do they reveal a fundamental fragmentation of contemporary arts?

Whose conceptual art projects tend to overawe the viewer, relate to the landscape, bring out crowds and the media, and stir up controversy?

The Latin American authors of the late 1960s that achieved international acclaim tended to write in what style?

Why did the cold war end? How did the internal policies of the United States and the Soviet Union influence the course of events?

Which of the following means the exchange of one worldview for another?

Use Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty to define environmental art.

What is the homeland of Pope John Paul II?

Define poststructuralism and deconstruction. Identify the major figures associated with each school of thought and explain their individual contributions.