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Art Ch 25
Chapter 25
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Art History
Undergraduate 1
05/06/2014

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Term
Which of the following is inextricably linked to consumer society and a mass culture that commodifies art?
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Postmodernism
Term
The first major American avant-garde movement is called ________.
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Abstract Expressionism
Term
Which of the following developed along two lines---gestural abstraction and chromatic abstraction?
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Abstract Expressionism
Term
Who created paintings composed of rhythmic drips, splatters, and dribbles of paint?
Definition
Jackson Pollock
Term
Who said "[T]he artist's problem...[is] the idea-complex that makes contact with mystery---of life, of men, of nature, of the hard black chaos that is death, or the grayer, softer chaos that is tragedy?"
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Barnett Newman
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Who encouraged his students both at the New School for Social Research in New York and Black Mountain College of North Carolina to link their art directly with life?
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John Cage
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In British Pop Art, ________ was very interested in the way advertising shaped public attitudes, and he combined elements of popular and fine art in his work.
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Richard Hamilton
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Who set out to create works that would be open and indeterminate by making "combines" which interspersed painted passages with sculptural elements?
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Robert Rauschenberg
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Who would excerpt a page from a comic book, a form of entertainment meant to be read and discarded, and immortalize the image on a monumental scale?
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Roy Lichtenstein
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The repetition and redundancy of the Coke bottle reflects the omnipresence and dominance of this product on ________.
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American society
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The eclecticism and dialogue between traditional and contemporary elements found in postmodern architecture is seen in ________.
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Piazza d'Italia, New Orleans
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________ is fully exposed rather like an updated version of the Crystal Palace or a sophisticated factory.
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Pompidou Centre, Paris
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________ created a building which appears as a mass of asymmetrical and imbalanced forms with a scaled-limestone and titanium-clad exterior.
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Frank Gehry
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________ was a postmodern movement that reexamined earlier art production and connected this art to German Expressionism and Abstract Expressionism.
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Neo Expressionism
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________ was particularly interested in the physicality of objects, and by attaching broken crockery to The Walk Home, found an extension of what paint could do.
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Julian Schnabel
Term
Who saw horses as a metaphor for humanity?
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Susan Rothenberg
Term
Who wanted to educate viewers about women's role in history and the fine arts?
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Judy Chicago
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Who addresses her work the way much of Western art has been constructed to present female beauty for the enjoyment of the "male gaze?"
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Cindy Sherman
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Who presented huge word-and-photograph collages that challenged the cultural attitudes embedded in commercial advertising?
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Barbara Kruger
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Who used her body as a component in her art works?
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Ana Mendieta
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