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57 Cards in this Set
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Ralph Waldo Emerson called himself a(n) ________.
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Transcendentalist
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The British Houses of Parliament (fig. 17.13) in London are a model of the ________ style.
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Gothic Revival
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Francisco Goya's ________ style was employed to chronicle of France's war with Spain.
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Romantic
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__________wrote Walden in 1854 because he believed that living close to nature was humankind's strength.
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Thoreau
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__________wrote Wuthering Heights which is a perfect encapsulation of the Romantic sensibility in the "violence of its scenes and the extravagance of its style."
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Emily Bronte
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________ was the subject of Goya's series of eighty-two prints produced between 1810 and 1823.
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War
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Goethe's play, Faust, has been described as a defining work of ________.
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European Romanticism
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William Blake's poetry focuses on ________ that are said to be contradictory states of the soul.
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innocence and experience
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Romantic artists were not interested in the ________.
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symmetry of machine-made products
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A leitmotif is a long musical passage popularized by Richard Wagner. True or false?
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False, leitmotifs were brief
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The Odalisque (fig. 17.7) by Eugène Delacroix is a rubéniste work that represents a woman from a harem. True or false?
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True
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John Constable was an English landscape painter whose work conveyed a sense of "the enduring attachment to place so fundamental to rural life." True or false?
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True
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The art movement called ________ provided a counter-tendency to the Neoclassical style, particularly in its trust in the subjective experience of individuals.
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Romantic
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The ________ initiated a decline in the Ottoman empire's power and influence.
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Crimean War
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________ was the first war to be documented in the new medium of photography.
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The American Civil War
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Realist art portrays the lives of ________ people.
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Working class
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Berlioz is to the orchestra as Chopin is to the ________.
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piano
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Eadward Muybridge's sequence studies led to the invention of the ________.
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motion picture
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The American painter ________, who was greatly influenced by Eadweard Muybridge's photographs, was dedicated to the accurate presentation of the human body in motion.
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Thomas Eakins
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Gustave Flaubert wrote Madame Bovary as a comprehensive attack on Romantic sensibility. True or false?
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True
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Gertrude Käsebier worked in the photographic style of Pictorialism in which the image's surface is somewhat indistinct with softened lines. True or false?
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True
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Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels were two proponents of the factory system. True or false?
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False, they thought the system left the workers with no voice and no benefits
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In 1863 the official Salon jury rejected so many works that Napoleon III had to set up a separate exhibit of the rejected paintings that was known as the Salon des Refusés. True or false?
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True
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The writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky was a favorite of the czarist regime. True or false?
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False, they arrested him for trying to print and discuss political and social issues banned by them
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Giuseppe Verdi was Italy's most important Romantic composer. True or false?
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True
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The plays The Three Sisters and The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov exemplify the ________ style in their lifelike characters who are unable to find happiness, uncertain about their future, and indecisive in the pursuit of their desires.
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Realist
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The ________ was the earliest type of photograph, produced on silver or silver-coated copper plate.
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daguerreotype
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Claude Debussy was to nineteenth-century French music what Pierre-Auguste Renoir was to nineteenth-century French ________.
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painting
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Edouard Manet's Luncheon on the Grass (fig. 17.22) was a precursor to the ________ movement.
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Impressionist
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Monet's Haystacks at Giverny (fig. 18.2) was one of a series of paintings of haystacks that Monet painted to study ________.
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the way in which changes in light and weather alter what we see
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Baron Haussmann was responsible for the ________.
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grands boulevards of Paris
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James Abbot McNeill Whistler advocated an art that was concerned with morality, education, or narrative rather than appealing to the aesthetic sense. True or false?
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False, the opposite is true
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Claude Debussy used music in an impressionistic fashion, _______________________.
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working like an artist in the realm of sound and fusing tones in innovative fashions.
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Edgar Degas has been called a "linear Impressionist" because of his precise draftsmanship. True or false?
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True
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Kate Chopin is associated with the Symbolist movement. True or false?
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False, she is associated with the Naturalist movement
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Dramatists such as Ibsen, Chekhov, and Strindberg sought to __________________.
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insert the audience into a comforting, inviting world in which the ideals of Romanticism could be more readily understood.
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The artists who came to be known as Impressionists first exhibited together in 1874. True or false?
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True
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman's fiction emphasized ________________.
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issues of middle class women in an oppressive society.
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Georges Eugene Haussman intent in rebuilding Paris was to ___________________.
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improve access and the aesthetics of the city
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The poetry of Charles Baudelaire loses some of its Impressionistic value when ____________.
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it is translated into English
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Oscar Wilde styled himself a "decadent" and flaunted his homosexuality as a challenge to the accepted code of moral behavior being promoted in his day. True or false?
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True
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir attempted to uncover the social inequities of late nineteenth-century Paris. True or false?
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False, he painted the good life, the positive aspects
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The painter Renoir emphasized in his works the harsh realities of street life. True or false?
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False, he painted the good stuff
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Developments in ideas about the structure of the ________, especially in proving that it is divisible, occurred in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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atom
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All of the following painters are considered Impressionists except ________.
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Vincent van Gogh, the Impressionists are Degas, Cassatt, Renoir, Morisot
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The human psyche, according to Sigmund Freud, is divided into: ________.
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id, ego, superego
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________ washed his brush between strokes so that each color would be distinct, referring to his brushstrokes as "little planes."
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Paul Cezanne
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________ created one of the first skyscrapers with his Wainwright Building (fig. 18.18) in St. Louis, Missouri.
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Louis Sullivan
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Georges Seurat employed the ________ technique in Sunday Afternoon on La Grande Jatte (fig. 18.11).
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pointillist
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________ sculpted The Thinker (fig. 18.15).
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Auguste Rodin
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________ is known as the "father of abstract art."
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Paul Cezanne
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Friedrich Nietzsche was a philosopher who asserted the freedom of the individual who could channel ________ tendencies in ways not constrained by social conventions.
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Apollonian and Dionysian
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The Boer War was fought between the British empire and two independent Boer Republics of ________.
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South Africa
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The mathematical application of paint to the canvas in small dots of uniform size, with each dot precisely placed, is called________
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pointillism
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The Post-Impressionist artist Paul Gauguin left his wife and five children and moved to Tahiti. True or false?
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True
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The favorite subjects of Paul Cézanne were still life and landscape. True or false?
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True
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Victor Horta's architectural works were built in the Neoclassical style. True or false?
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False, they were in the Art Nouveau style
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