Exam 23: The Contemporary Contour

What major public outdoor memorial was designed by Maya Ying Lin?

Which French writer and thinker (1905-1980) is most directly associated with Existentialism?

Which American abstract expressionist is famous for his action paintings?

In the 1940s and 1950s, what city replaced Paris as the center of modern art?

Which of the following was among the most prominent subjects of Andy Warhol's art?

What type of non-Western music has influenced the work of the minimalist composer Philip Glass?

Who were some of the most famous Beat writers, and what were the major themes of their work?

What are the origins of Deconstructivist Architecture? How are its principles evident in Frank Gehry's design of the Ray and Maria Stata Center at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ?

What term is applied to the music of Steve Reich, which builds lengthy pieces out of multiple repetitions of simple chords and rhythms?

What were the central characteristics and themes of Pop Art? How are these apparent in Andy Warhol's work?

How does Pierre Boulez' Second Piano Sonata exemplify the ideal of structuralism?  What is the effect of this compositional framework?

What is the name given to the kind of art exemplified by Alexander Calder's The Star ?

What two major contemporary composers have continued to work with traditional elements of melody, harmony, and rhythm?

Who wrote about her native Chicago and was the first African American woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for poetry?

What two American poets wrote from a feminist perspective?

What is aleatoric music?

Which artist, who has worked in many mediums, is best known for his series of Cremaster films?

What anonymous arts collective of the 1980s called itself the "conscience of the art world"?

What is the main characteristic of Frank Gehry's Guggenheim Museum Bilbao ?

What is the topic of Elie Wiesel's memoir,  Night ?