Chapter 13 Humanities

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In the Communist Manifesto, Marx and Engels prophesied that a revolution would?
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Proletariat
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The artists' whose subject matter was individuals in ordinary settings who challenged, "Show me an angel and I'll paint one" was?
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Courbet
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Japanese prints had the greatest influence on late-nineteenth-century European?
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Postimpressionism
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The artist who wished to "redo nature after Poussin," and whose later work anticipated twentieth-century abstract art, was?
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Cézanne
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In the last quarter of the nineteenth century, ________ emerged as the center of Western artistic productivity.
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Paris
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"Oceania" refers to the?
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Islands of the South and Central Pacific Ocean
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Nietzsche called for a new morality that?
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Privileged the "superman"
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The Social Realist who is primarily associated with the medium of lithography is?
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Daumier
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The movement known as Impressionism took its title from a painting by?
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Monet
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For their subject matter, the Impressionist painters drew largely on?
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The urban scene
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A major factor in bringing non-Western cultures to the attention of Europeans was?
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a. advancing colonialism. b. the World's Fairs. c. documentary photography.
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Which author offered realistic (and sentimental) depictions of nineteenth-century society in works such as David Copperfield?
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Charles Dickens
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What were some innovations of the nineteenth century mentioned in this chapter?
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Railroads, telegraph, sewing machine, repeating rifle, pioneer experiments in aeral photography and urban renewal projects
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The names Matthew Brady and Eadweard Muybridge are associated with?
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Photography
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The most important new medium in mid-nineteenth-century architecture was? What are some names associated with 19th century architecture?
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Cast iron;
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What were some characteristics of Puccini's Verismo operas? What are some examples?
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Brought a new level of realism into opera
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The Naturalistic novels of Zola were grounded in his belief that human beings were?
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Products of their environment and their heredity
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The artist who became infatuated with unspoiled nature, especially as it existed in Tahiti was?
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Gauguin
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What was Debussy known for? What are some characteristics of his music?
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Wrote prelude to the afternoon of a faun; the use of shifting harmonies, was heavily influenced by the Symbolists and Impressionists
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Which author was credited with inventing the modern novel?
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Flaubert
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Late nineteenth-century colonialism had as its primary motivating force the need?
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For materials and markets
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The turn from Romanticism to literary Realism is evident in the novels of?
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1. Ibsen 2. Flaubert 3. Zola