Ch.12

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Wood and stone carvings are examples of
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Subtractive sculpture
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According to the author, what are the three basic ways that we can experience a sculpture
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Relief, In the round, As environments
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Maidens and Stewards, a Parthenon fragment of the Panathenaic Procession, illustrates which ancient sculptural convention?
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Frieze
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The competition panels of Sacrifice of Isaac by Lorenzo Ghiberti and Filippo Brunelleschi are examples of
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high-relief sculpture
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Giambologna's The Capture of the Sabine Women is an example of
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Sculpture in-the-round
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A sculptural space that you can actually enter is referred to as
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An environment
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One of the complex aspects of wood carving that a sculptor must pay attention to is
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the wood's grain
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Ancient Egyptian stone funerary figures, such as Menkaure with a Woman, were carved to bear the spirit of the deceased into the eternity of the afterlife, known as the
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ka
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Greek figurative sculpture was greatly influenced by Egyptian sculpture. What did the Greeks add?
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Naturalism
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The Greek Kouros illustrates the idea of shifting or counterpositioning weight around the axis of the spine in figurative sculpture. This pose is called
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contrapposto
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When a sculpture is created by building up the form with a material such as clay, the process is called
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additive
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Pliable clay is made to hold its form permanently through the process of
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firing it
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The Tomb of Emperor Qin Shihuangdi includes an extraordinary grouping of what type of work?
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Ceramics
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The material most often associated with the process of "casting" is
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Bronze
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By the late fourteenth century, the African kingdom of Benin had developed tremendous refinement in the art of
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Brass casting
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Which of these processes best describes the one used by Rodin in sculpting The Burghers of Calais?
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It was cast in several pieces and then welded together.
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How does assemblage primarily differ from other sculptural processes?
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It utilizes "found" objects.
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In Sky Cathedral, artist Louise Nevelson has combined found materials to create a sculpture. What is this process called?
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assemblage
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The Yoruba display piece produced for an oba, or king, is meant to reflect the king's power and
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the power of the community's women.
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Jeff Koons's Puppy is an assemblage that uses, among other materials,
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live flowering plants
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Nancy Rubins's Pleasure Point is an installation because it
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introduces sculpture and other materials into a space to transform our experience of it
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What do Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty and the Great Serpent Mound have in common?
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They are both earthworks
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Storm King Art Center in upstate New York is an example of
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an art park that incorporates sculptures into a natural landscape.
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Allan Kaprow created "assemblages of events performed or perceived in more than one time and place." He called these
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happenings
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In the 1977 Imponderabilia, an example of performance art, viewers participated by
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passing through a "living door" formed by the two naked artists, one male and the other female.