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RSAD-Modern Art I- AH391- Rice
Test #4 Ch.4 according to study guide (Anthony Rice)
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Art History
Undergraduate 3
12/12/2006

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New York
Definition
The artist Le Corbusier called which American city a tragid hedgehog: (Mult. Choice)
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True
Definition
T or F: By the word "L'architecture," an educated Frenchman of 1870 did not mean public housing, factories, or workers' clubs. He meant ceremonial buildings that demonstrated the important public functions of a bourgeois bureaucracy: banks, ministries, museums, railway stations, and palaces.
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slums
Definition
The poor did not have "l'architecture." They had ______.
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Loos
Definition
The architect who launched the attack on decorated architecture was: (Mult. Choice)
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False
Definition
T or F: Mies van der Rohe did not state, "Less is more."
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True
Definition
T or F: Ornament is wasted labour power and hence wasted health.
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Sullivan
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__________ was, by general agreement, the giant of Chicago building and one of the precursors of modernist architecture.
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Safety elevator
Definition
What did the American Elisha Otis create in 1857: (Mult. choice)
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Burnham and Root
Definition
Name the architects who created the Reliance Building, Chicago 1890 _____________ and _________
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Sheet Glass
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The supreme Utopian material was ______________.
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True
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T or F: Glass architecture was pacifist architecture, the very image of exacted vulnerability which, given a new social contract, would remain forever intact.
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Wassily Wckhardt
Definition
Name the architect who imagined a vast building, "Tower of Joy"; 1919. ___________________
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True
Definition
T or F: Mies van der Rohe's extraordinary influence on two subsequent generations. "He believed in the ultimate truth of architecture."
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True
Definition
Mies van der Rohe did not make this statement, "The individual is losing significance; his destiny is not longer waht interests us."
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Philip Johnson
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Name the architect who designed the Seagram Building in New York City; 1856-8 ________________-
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False
Definition
T or F: Corbusier was not, at the level of the single building, one of the most brilliantly gifted architects who ever lived.
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Corbusier
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Name the architect who designed Villa Savoye, 1929-31. ______________
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False
Definition
T or F: "Bauhaus" has not been synonymous with rationalized, sharp-edge, machine-based style.
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Walter Gropius
Definition
Name the idealistic architect who founded the "Bauhaus." _________________
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House for building
Definition
The word "Bauhaus" literally means: (Mult choice)
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Gropius
Definition
Name the architect who actually made the corners of the building transparent, thus completing the ideal of the glass prism: (Mult. Choice)
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Art
Definition
The idea of _____ as quasi-religious activity dominated the Bauhaus.
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False
Definition
T or F: The Bauhaus school's view that it is not far harder to design a first-rate teapot than to paint a second-rate picture was, of course, unarguably right.
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Red & Blue Chair 1918
Definition
Gerrit Reitveld created a classic piece of furniture ______________.
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The Style
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The word 'destijl' literally means ___________.
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Mondrian
Definition
____________ was one of the last great painters to believe that his paints could change the objective conditions of human life. (Mult. Choice)
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Piet Mondrian
Definition
Name the Dutch artist who created "Broadway Boogie-Woogie" 1942-3. ________________
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Richard Meier
Definition
Who was the American architect who created "Anthenaeum", New Harmony, Indiana; 1975-9. _________________
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Gropius, Mies van der Rohe, LeCorbusier
Definition
Who was responsible for the International Style (3 answers)
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Mondrian, Van Doesburg
Definition
Who was responsible for DeStijl? (2 answers)
Term
1880-1930
Definition
When was International Style?
Term
1917-1931
Definition
When was DeStijl?
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