In his landmark poem The Rock, T. S. Eliot claimed that the knowledge accumulated by Western civilization brought twentieth-century Westerners closer to?
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Ignorance and death.
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Purging the canvas of all recognizable subject matter was the aim of artists such as?
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Mondrian and Kandinsky.
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According to Marcel Duchamp and other Dada figures, the artists should be the?
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Destroyers of tradition.
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Konstantin Stanislavsky is associated with?
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Method acting.
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According to Freud, civilization was the product of the?
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Superego.
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What are some characteristics of art in the first half of the twentieth century?
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Cubism, futurism, fauvism, and dada.
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The Holocaust resulted from Hitler's?
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Theory of Aryan racial superiority.
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Which artistic movement thrived on nihilism and irrationalism?