ART 109 Ch. 11-15 – Flashcards
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The Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti uses ____ as a protest strategy.
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narrative
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. The function of this painting was to ____. spanish war painting
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illustrate an event that occurred when Napoleon Bonaparte's army occupied Madrid
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Tomatsu Shomei's Woman with Keloidal Scars is an example of documentary photography.
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TRUE
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David Alfaro Siqueiros protested against the ____.
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Spanish Civil War
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The Rent Collection Courtyard documents a scene from ____ history.
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Chinese
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Eugene Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People is ____ in its portrayal of fighting as thrilling, dangerous, and liberating.
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romantic
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The Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti was done by
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Shahn
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Francisco Goya's The Executions of May 3rd, 1808, sympathize with
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Spaniards
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The ____ Codex Barbonicus is a religious calendar that was made during the period of the Spanish conquest
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Aztex
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Robert Motherwell's Elegy to the Spanish Republic was made in response to the influenza epidemic of 1918
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False
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The Surrealists believed in automatism, which includes the idea of
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Intuition
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Leon Golub's Mercenaries I is particularly imposing because of its
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large size
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Edward Kienholz's work is based on his experiences as ____.
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a mental hospital worker
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Ester Hernandez uses ____ to make her artistic protests.
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humor
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Both Kathe Kollwitz and George Grosz
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protested against wars
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Lewis Hine's photos of child laborers have long ____, which fully documented their youthfulness.
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titles
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Most social protest works of art are designed to prescribe specific changes and actions
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FALSE
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Jacob Lawrence did a series of paintings describing the tribulations of
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African Americans
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Frida Kahlo's many self-portraits show her face as
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unemotional
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___ is known for the use of stop motion photography to document the physical movement of humans and animals.
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Eadweard Muybridge
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Rembrandt's portraits reveal that The Netherlands encouraged
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individualism
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Doryphoros translates to
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spear-bearer
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A Yakshi is a representation of
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fertility
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The Egyptian ____ canon, begun by Amenhotep III, was a new aesthetic which rejected the rigid, abstract style of the past for a more flowing, elegant, naturalistic approach.
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Armana
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Many African sculptures considered the head and ____ as most important.
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neck
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The Doryphoros is idealized in several ways, including
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its restrained emotions
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Polykleitos invented and applied a system of mathematical proportions called the Canon for the depiction of Greek figures.
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true
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Lucian Freud's Leigh under the Skylight is a portrait of
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everyman
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Chuck Close is a painter known for making highly idealized figurative paintings based on classical notions of ideal beauty.
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False
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Vincent van Gogh's Portrait of Dr. Gachet was a vehicle for commentary about ____.
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the suffering inherent in modern, urban life
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Nancy Burson achieved a grainy, fuzzy look in her photographic series Faces by using a cheap plastic camera.
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True
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Traditional African sculpture portrays the frontal view as
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symmetrical
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Nancy Burson's Faces are portraits of children with
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unusual faces
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Medieval Christians felt the ____ was more important than the ____.
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soul/body
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Viola's series titled The Passions is based on ____ paintings of figures in sorrow, ecstasy, or astonishment.
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Renaissance and Baroque
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A full-body portrait is always a life-size depiction of an individual.
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False
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The Study for the Portrait of Okakura Tenshin showed the Japanese characteristics of
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flat shapes and contour lines
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In Medieval Europe, human nature was held in high esteem and images of the body symbolized the purity of God's divine realm.
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False
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Aunt Jemima is considered a ____.
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caricature
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In Las Meninas, Velazquez places Infanta Margarita at the center of the painting and surrounds her with ____ to reveal her exalted rank.
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all of these choices
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James VanDerZee was a commercial studio photographer whose work was strongly influenced by depictions of female stereotypes in films from the 1950's and 1960's.
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False
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The Northwest Coastal people believed that the thunderbird represented a ____.
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chief
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In the 1960's and 1970's, high profile art exhibitions in prestigious American museums frequently included work by women artists.
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False
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Jacques-Louis David's The Oath of the Horatii revealed that heroic actions were ____.
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a mark of masculinity
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Hung Liu examined the Chinese practice
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foot binding
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A ____ is a group of people joined by blood or marriage ties.
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clan
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Ceremonies for a clan's living members took place in Zapotec ____.
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tombs
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Betye Saar's The Liberation of Aunt Jemima is a ____ piece.
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mixed media
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Kabuki theater was enjoyed by the ____ in Japanese society.
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middle class
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The ancient Greeks viewed Doric architecture as
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masculine
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Peter Paul Rubens' Abduction of the Daughters of Leucippus revealed that the women of that time were expected to be ____.
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helpless
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Art can forge racial identity and preserve the history and values of a(n) ____ group.
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ethnic
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The painting Abduction of the Daughters of Leucippus by Peter Paul Rubens is an example of ____ as subject matter.
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sexual exotica
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Because of restrictive laws emphasizing cultural separation, nineteenth century Russian Jews were unable to pursue careers in the arts and found work primarily in the areas of business and manual labor.
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False
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Painting from a Cult House done by the Tambaran cult of New Guinea ____ the cult teachings through a narrative.
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does not illustrate
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In ancient Egypt, the human body was sculpted in different ways depending on the class of the person
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true
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In Papua New Guinea, Sepik men saw their rituals as creating men from infants, usurping women's procreative power.
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true
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In Western culture, architecture is gendered - different styles are associated with certain qualities that are perceived to be masculine or feminine.
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true
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Apricot Blossoms is a lyric painting by MaYuan with ____ by Empress Yang.
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lines of poetry
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Unicorns were first described in ancient Greece and Rome.
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true
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John Constable's works, while Romantic in essence, were the foundation for the ____.
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Impressionists
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Satyrs were men with ____ attributes and were prone to drunkenness and sexual excess.
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goats or men
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A shaman was believed to be ____ between humans, animals and spirits.
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a bridge
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In the later years of his life, Claude Monet's paintings approached abstraction, as ____ became more important than imagery.
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brushstrokes
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The bouquets Dutch artist Jan Bruegel painted never existed in real life.
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True
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The ancient Greeks created woman-headed birds called ____.
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harpies
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Ansel Adams photographs helped raise public support for national parks and for the environmental movement in general.
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true
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The Incan civilization in Peru produced huge animal drawings by scraping the desert floor to reveal the lighter-colored sand beneath it.
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false
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Landscapes were popular in China and Japan because ____.
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cities were noisy, polluted and crowded
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Animals appear in art in every culture.
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True
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Flowers were often symbols for the Christian religion in earlier times; for example, the iris represented ____.
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Jesus
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Visitors to the Zen Garden of Contemplation in Japan are expected to ____.
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sit still and meditate
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Ashurbanipal II Killing Lions is an example of ____ relief carving.
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Assyrian
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Due to technological advances in photography, medical books no longer contain drawn illustrations.
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False
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Ansel Adams' photographs emphasized the beauty of nature as ____.
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untouched by humans
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The European painter, John Constable painted his large landscapes outdoors from direct observation.
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False
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Robert Smithson created earthworks because ____.
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he was interested in moving his art outside the gallery system
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____ are metaphors for humans in Thai, Hindu and Buddhist art.
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Monkeys
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The Sydney Opera House owes a stylistic debt to the architecture of ____.
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Frank Lloyd Wright
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Architect Frank Gehry was originally trained as a ____.
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sculptor
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The North American Sioux Hoop Dance celebrated ____.
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springtime
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Matthew Barney's Cremaster I references Busby Berkley musical productions from 1930's Hollywood films.
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True
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Ancient Greek comedies and tragedies were originally part of ritual festivals dedicated to the deity Dionysos.
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True
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Deconstructivist architecture does not have ____.
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a unified whole
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Most contemporary houses for the arts are built in architectural styles that reflect modern values of innovation, bold movement or future potential.
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True
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The first examples of performance art were called ____.
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happenings
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In its original state, the Colosseum in Rome was a spartan amphitheater devoid of any ornamentation except for its Doric capitals.
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False
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In 1927, ____ was/were added to motion pictures.
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sound
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Western theater began as a form of worship of the god ____.
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Dionysos
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Visual culture is an area of academic study that deals with the totality of images and visual objects produced in ____, and the ways that those images are disseminated, received, and used.
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industrial and postindustrial nations
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In ancient Greece, art galleries were frequently near temple complexes.
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True
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____ is a relatively early form of animation which uses clay sculptures that are moved and photographed in tiny increments.
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Claymation
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Central Park was designed to be a(n) ____ from city life.
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retreat
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Animation grew out of ____, in which a series of drawn images seem to move as book pages are flipped rapidly.
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flip books
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Frank Lloyd Wright's Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York is architecturally engineered to display paintings and sculptures at their best.
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False
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The Mayan's ritualistic ball sport has similarities to the contemporary game of ____.
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soccer
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The ultimate purpose of Visual Studies is to record the language of visual culture so that images have a universal meaning regardless of nationality or culture.
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False