Chapters 14 & 15 Final.

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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?
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Dada.
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Picasso's landmark painting, Guernica, immortalized the?
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Aerial bombing of a civilian target.
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A major component of the music known as "jazz" is?
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Improvisation, syncopation, and the blues motif.
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The use of cinematic shots in rapid succession is known as?
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Montage.
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For much of his music, Aaron Copland found inspiration in?
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American folk songs.
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Freud theorized that the libido was an important drive of?
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The ego.
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Jung argued that the collective unconscious manifested itself in?
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Fairytales.
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The pioneering narrative films of George Méliès and Edwin S. Porter were early examples of which popular genres?
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Westerns and science fiction.
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The most distinctive feature of Imagist poetry was its?
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Pared down, abstract style.
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The first totalitarian state of the twentieth century was established in?
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Russia.
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Albert Einstein and other twentieth-century physicists argued that?
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Newtonian laws of physics did not function at the cosmic level.
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Fauvist artworks are most notable for their bold use of?
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Color.
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Leopold Bloom is the central figure in James Joyce's landmark work?
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Ulysses.
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The names Gropius and Le Corbusier are associated with the?
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International style in architecture.
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Jules Verne and H. G. Wells were pioneering figures in which literary genre?
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Science fiction.
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Wright's extraordinary house, "Fallingwater," depended on the inventive use of?
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The cantilever.
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Picasso's landmark work Les Demoiselles d'Avignon was a precursor to the style that became known as?
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Cubism.
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Leading artists of China's Pop art movement, such as Wang Guangyi, have assumed the role of?
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Social critic.
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The assertion that "the world will never be white again" was made by which author of Go Tell It on the Mountain?
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James Baldwin.
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The "Great Criticism" series by the Chinese artist Wang Guangyi reflects the influence of?
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Pop art.
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Arguably the most radical development in music in the last fifty years, as seen in synthesizers and sampling, has been the?
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Impact of electronic technology.
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Einstein on the Beach, one of the first operas to employ electronically amplified instrumentation, was written by?
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Philip Glass.
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The aesthetic, production, and materials of minimalist artworks are inspired by?
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Industrial technology.
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Some critics contend that Postmodernism originated with the rejection of the International Style in the field of?
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Architecture.
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The pioneer figure in American Pop art was?
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Warhol.
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The effort on the part of contemporary physicists to achieve a "theory of everything" is evident in?
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String Theory.
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The feminist Simone de Beauvoir held that women?
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Should reject the role of "Other".
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A major component of hip-hop music is?
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Percussive beats, disco, reggae, and rock influences, and electronic manipulations of music by disc jockeys.
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After 1945, there was a shift in major art production from?
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Paris to New York.
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Which composer wrote aleatory pieces such as 4' 33"?
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Cage.
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The leading action painter of the twentieth century was?
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Pollock.
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Merce Cunningham's choreography is considered radical because it?
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Does not depend on music.
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In his writings on existentialism, Sartre insisted that each individual is?
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The sum of his or her own actions.
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The elements of jazz and street slang in the poetry of Gwendolyn Brooks show the influence of?
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Langston Hughes.
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Beckett's Waiting for Godot belongs to a dramatic genre known as?
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Theater of the absurd.
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What do minimalism and geometric abstraction have in common?
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Both largely nonrepresentational.
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The United States Supreme Court did not ban school segregation until?
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1954.
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Sartre's landmark philosophic treatise is entitled?
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Being and Nothingness.