Exam 37: After the War: Existential Doubt, artistic Triumph, and the Culture of Consumption

Identify and explain two ways the art of the Abstract Expressionists introduced a new aspect-the creation of meaning shifting from artist to audience.

According to existential feminist Simone de Beauvoir,why are women often satisfied with secondary status to men?

What question about art did the Minimalists seem to be asking with their works?

Define existentialism,and give two reasons for its appeal to post-World War II people.

Why did the organization of Abstract Expressionist artists known as "The Club" exclude in their charter communists,homosexuals,and women?

As discussed in the chapter's "Continuity and Change" section,in 1954 why did the U.S.Supreme Court rule that "separate but equal" schools for whites and blacks were unacceptable?

Why did a rooster have psychological meaning to Jackson Pollock,who painted one into his Guardians of the Secret?

To reap the full effect of David Smith's Blackburn: Song of an Irish Blacksmith,what must the viewer do?

Why is Jean-Paul Sartre's existentialist play titled Huis Clos (No Exit)?

Why did Frank Lloyd Wright design the Guggenheim Museum in New York as a spiral with a ramp and an open rotunda in the middle?

What is Jean-Paul Sartre's first principle of his atheistic existentialism?

Why did the London-formed Independents call their creations "Pop Art"?

What is the central thematic concern of the Theater of the Absurd?

Minimalist art seems to ask an intriguing question-what,minimally,makes a work of art? Using as your examples the works discussed in this chapter,list three qualities necessary for a work to be considered art.