Exam 30: Industry,Empire,and the Realist Style

________ shocked public taste by modernizing Classical subjects and violating conventional painting techniques.

Which of the following was the Norwegian dramatist who shocked his contemporary audiences with such subject matters as incest,insanity,and venereal disease?

Which of the following initiated a variant form of literary realism known as naturalism?

The most popular English novelist of this period of history was which of the following?

Define these technologies as vehicles of Realism: journalism,photography,and lithography.

Photography and ________ were invented during the nineteenth century;both encouraged artists to produce objective records of their surroundings.

The heavy hand of Western ________ in some parts of Africa,Asia,and in the Middle East had a crippling effect on independent growth and productivity.

Differentiate between the theories of liberalism,conservatism,utilitarianism,and socialism.

Define the factors that contributed to Western global dominion: industrialism,colonialism,nationalism,and imperialism.

Which of the following early social theories was firmly based in the ideals of the Enlightenment?

Paxton's ________,the world's first prefabricated cast-iron structure,offered a prophetic glimpse into the decades that would produce steel-framed skyscrapers.

The leading proponent of liberalism,________,defended the exercise of individual liberty as protected by the state.

By the mid-nineteenth century the ________ was used to document all aspects of contemporary life as well as to provide artists with detailed visual data.

Society should operate entirely in the interest of the needs of the people,communally and cooperatively,rather than competitively,according to which of the following?

During the second half of the nineteenth century,as Western industrialization accelerated,________ came to rival Romanticism both as a style and as an attitude of mind.

Discuss the shift from Romanticism to Realism in literature,the visual arts,and music.

In painting,________ led the realist movement with canvases depicting the activities of humble and commonplace men and women.

Describe the social theories of both Mill and Marx.

In the opera Madame Butterfly,the Italian "verist" Giacomo Puccini presented a timely view of

________ is a social theory forwarded by Jeremy Bentham,stating governments should work to secure the greatest happiness for the greatest number of people.