Exam 31: Modernism and Postmodernism in Europe and America, 1945 to 1980

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Isamu Noguchi's Shodo Shima Stone Study weds the geometric abstraction of Western art with what other tradition?

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At the beginning of his long career, Philip Johnson was closely associated with which modernist architect?

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Which artist created Superrealist life-size painted plaster sculptures that capture the loneliness of average Americans in familiar settings?

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​ ​   Which female Abstract Expressionist artist painted this untitled work, with its asymmetrical composition? Which female Abstract Expressionist artist painted this untitled work, with its asymmetrical composition?

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Which artist is synonymous with the Op Art movement, relying on a pointillist manner to create the impression of movement and depth?

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Which art critic asserted the importance of strict formalism, in which the emphasis is on the elements rather than the subject of an artwork?

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Which of the following is an example of the eclecticism that characterizes postmodernist architecture?

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Which painter revolutionized the preparation and use of the canvas?

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A leader in Performance Art, John Cage brought to music the ideas of Eastern philosophy and which artist?

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What did Fluxus artists name their individual instances of Performance Art, to distinguish their performances from Kaprow's Happenings ?

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Post-painterly Abstractionists most differed from Abstract Expressionists in which aspect of their work?

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​ ​   This monochromatic sculpture, incorporating found objects in frames, by Louise Nevelson is meant to evoke what mood? This monochromatic sculpture, incorporating found objects in frames, by Louise Nevelson is meant to evoke what mood?

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In her photograph series, Cindy Sherman addressed the tradition in Western art that presents female beauty from which perspective?

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Barnett Newman and Mark Rothko are artists who worked in which style?

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What is the location of Robert Smithson's earthwork Spiral Jetty ?

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Which of the following is NOT a shape implied in the structure of Le Corbusier's Notre Dame du Haut?

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Among the criticisms of Michael Graves's Portland Building was that it resembled what?

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Audrey Flack's Marilyn is a meant as a reference to which earlier painting genre?

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Who was the postwar Expressionist artist who theorized about art brut ?

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Charles Moore's postmodernist Piazza d'Italia is located in which American city?

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