Question 1

Conceptual artists wanted to __________ the art object.

Accepted Answer

A)   emphasize
B)   dematerialize
C)   celebrate
D)   reproduce B

Question 2

Critic Lawrence Alloway named Pop Art after __________.

Accepted Answer

A)   movie popcorn
B)   his father
C)   a Tootsie Pop
D)   a popping balloon C

Question 3

How did Happenings differ from conventional theatrical performances?

Accepted Answer

A)   It invades the viewer's space,
B)   The viewer must frequently participate,
C)   Its structure allows for the occurrence of chance and spontaneous events.
D)   All of the above. D

Question 4

Frank Gehry's Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao,Spain is an example of Deconstructivist __________.

Accepted Answer

A)   architecture
B)   furniture
C)   telephone
D)   language

Question 5

What commercial technique did Roy Lichtenstein imitate in his paintings?

Accepted Answer

A)   silkscreening
B)   benday dots
C)   photography
D)   digital imaging

Question 6

What is Postmodern architecture?

Accepted Answer

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Question 7

What social issue motivated David Wojnarowicz's Untitled (Hands)?

Accepted Answer

A)   the Vietnam War
B)   the AIDS crisis
C)   housing for the urban poor
D)   funding for the arts

Question 8

Allan Kaprow and Yves Klein were both associated with __________.

Accepted Answer

A)   Happenings
B)   Postwar photography
C)   Neo-Expressionism
D)   Arte Minimalism

Question 9

Which controversial work of art resulted in its removal from its original location?

Accepted Answer

A)   Andres Serrano's Piss Christ
B)   Richard Serra's Tilted Arc
C)   Chris Ofili's The Holy Virgin Mary
D)   Damien Hirst's Mother and Child Divided

Question 10

Why did the Minimal artists eliminate personal feeling and social references from their work?

Accepted Answer

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Question 11

What was the aim of Richard Hamilton's Just What Is It That Makes Today's Homes So Different,So Appealing ?

Accepted Answer

A)   To draw upon popular culture's craze for celebrities like Marilyn Monroe
B)   To create a visual expression of the disharmonious world of consumption
C)   To inspire later Pop artists to use collage as their primary medium.
D)   To introduce American Pop Art to British audiences.

Question 12

How did Carolee Schneemann's performances challenge the traditional role of women as subjects in art?

Accepted Answer

A)   She dictated the terms of the viewer's experience.
B)   She refused to perform nude.
C)   She used only male performers.
D)   She assumed roles that challenged female stereotypes.

Question 13

Johns,Cage and Rauschenberg collaborated on theatrical events with the choreographer __________.

Accepted Answer

A)   Yves Klein
B)   Francis Bacon
C)   Diane Arbus
D)   Merce Cunningham

Question 14

What traditional folk art form does Kara Walker use in her provocative installations exploring historical issues of race?

Accepted Answer

A)   glassblowing
B)   cut-paper silhouettes
C)   quiltmaking
D)   dollmaking

Question 15

In the 1950s and 1960s several artists argued that ______________was just as important as a finished art object.

Accepted Answer

A)   the readymade
B)   the artist's idea
C)   the creative process
D)   reproductions of art

Question 16

What long-established practice does Gerhard Richter reject?

Accepted Answer

A)   the signing of art
B)   working in a singular style
C)   exhibiting art in public
D)   providing titles to art

Question 17

Louise Nevelson arrives at works such as Sky Cathedral after _____________.

Accepted Answer

A)   piecing together different shapes of glass
B)   experimenting with combines
C)   stacking boxes of discarded objects together
D)   collaging photographs

Question 18

The text explains that Minimalist art is best understood when considered ________________

Accepted Answer

A)   in photographic reproductions
B)   in a gallery or museum context
C)   alongside the artists' written manifestoes
D)   from a distance

Question 19

How are Christo and Jeanne-Claude's site-specific works of art funded?

Accepted Answer

A)   They are funded through grants from the National Endowment of the Arts and other funding agencies
B)   They are commissioned by museums, individuals, and local governments.
C)   They sell models, drawings, and other preliminary materials from the preceding project.
D)   Admission fees for those who want to see the final work.

Question 20

As an alternative to traditional images in art,feminist artists in the early 1970's emphasized a(n)____________view of women by focusing on women's bodies and defining gender in biological terms.

Accepted Answer

A)   feminine
B)   essentialist
C)   naturalist
D)   scientific

Exam 16: The international scene since 1950