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When and where were the earliest photographs developed? |
in the nineteenth century in France and England |
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The first feature-length animated film in full color was |
Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs |
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How does David-Claerbout engage with paradox in Sections of a Happy Moment? |
He uses computer imagery to represent time, both simultaneously suspended and ongoing. |
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The subject matter of An-My Le's Palms: Night Operations lll depicts training maneuvers of personnel preparing for deployment to Afghanistan and Iraq. What about this series of photographs is true? |
The photographed events are staged reenactments |
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In film making, each unbroken, continuous sequence of movie frames with the cameras still rolling is called a |
shot |
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According to the text, Jerry N. Uelsmann's Untitled has the character of which artistic movement? |
surrealism |
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Why was Hokusai's Sunshu Ejiri an appropriate model to satisfy Jeff Wall's interest in creating A Sudden Gust of Wind? |
Wall's interest lies in the transformations contemporary culture has worked on traditional media, and Hokusai's print is traditional in medium and subject. |
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Eadward Muybridge's photographs, like Annie G., Cantering, Saddled, are early examples of artists |
capturing a object in motion |
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How does "assemblage" primarily differ from other sculptural processes |
It utilizes "found" objects |
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Jeff Koon's Puppy is an assemblage that uses, among other materials |
live flowering plants` |
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What do Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty and that Great Serpent Mound have in common? |
They are both earthworks |
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By the late fourteenth century, the African kingdom of Benin had developed tremendous refinement in the art of |
brass casting |
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In Sky Cathedral, artist Louise Nevelson has combined found materials to create a sculpture. What is this process called? |
assemblage |
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A sculptural space that you can actually enter is referred to as |
an environment |
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Greek figurative sculpture was greatly influence by Egyptian sculpture. What did the Greeks add? |
naturalism |
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Storm King Art Center in upstate New York is an example of |
an art park that incorporates sculptures into a natural landscape |
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The Greek Kouros illustrates the idea of shifting or counter positioning weight around the axis of the spine in figurative sculpture. This pose is called |
contrapposto |
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Nacy Rubin's Pleasure Point is an installation because it |
introduces sculpture and other materials into a space to transform our experience of it |
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When are where was porcelain developed? |
In 7th century China |
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Most ceramic objects are created by one of which three methods |
slab construction, coiling, and throwing |
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Originally, when an artist worked in "the crafts" it meant that they |
produced functional objects |
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Which of these is not a basic principle of "green architecture?" |
buildings that make maximum use of energy supplies like coal and nuclear power |
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The Romans created larger interior spaces in architecture that the Greeks because |
they combined the use of the arch with the use of concrete |
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Frederick Law Olmsted conceived of which common architectural concept |
the suburb |
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Frank Lloyd Wright designed several houses that were based on the "vastness of the western landscape" and were "of the land, not just on the land." What did he call this style of house |
the Prairie House |
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The term "infrastructure" refers to |
the systems that deliver services to people |
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In the Gothic period, when the Notre Dame de Paris was built, architects preferred to use |
pointed arches |
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It is thought that the sloping sides of the pyramids in Egypt were intended to mimic |
the rays of the sun |
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The Romans perfected which architectural innovation by the end of he first century BCE |
the dome |
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Historically, architectural styles and building techniques have been dependent on |
environment (the lay of the land and climate) and technology (available materials and the ability to manipulate them) |
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The tendency to embrace a plurality of styles by the s, in contradiction to the idea of "branding" and maintaining a uniform corporate identity, is illustrated by |
the MTV (Music Television) logo |
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Charles and Ray Eames' Side chair, model DCM demonstrates which feature of design in the s and s |
curvilinear design |
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American glassmaker Louis Comfort Tiffany inspired which design movement? |
Art Nouveau |
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Identify some reasons for the popularity of the Breuer chair |
It was easily reproduced, and it looked new and modern |
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The first fins to appear on an automobile were on the Cadillac Fleetwood. It's designer, Harley Earl, was inspired by |
the design of the P- "lightning" fighter plane |
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The designer of Does It Make Sense?, April Greiman, is a pioneer in the field of |
digital technology in advertising |
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The stele inscribed with the Law Code of Hammurabi was created by which Mesopotamian culture? |
the babylonians |
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The She-Wolf, later adopted by Romans as a symbol of their civilization, was, until recently, thought to have been made by which culture? |
the Etruscans |
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Classical Greek sculpture can best be described as |
relaxed poses that sought to depict ideal form |
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Found in Austria, the Venus of Willendorf is most likely a |
fertility figure |
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Stonehenge in England is an example of what type of monumental stone architecture? |
megalith |
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The Cahokia Mound at present-day East St. Louis, Illinois, was the focal point of |
a ritual center |
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The figures from the Abu Temple represent worshippers from the complex society of |
Sumer |
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The Olmec colossal heads are believed to represent |
their rulers |
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Neolithic culture developed quickly in the world's fertile valleys. By 4000 BCE, urban societies had developed in |
Egypt and Mesopotamia |
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The text relates that television helped recognize the "niche" market of yuppies (young, upper-middle class professionals) in the s with the show |
St. Elsewhere |
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Kara Walker's installation Insurrection! (Our tools were rudimentary, yet we pressed on) uses the device of |
silhouette |
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Watercolor painting is such a spontaneous that many people think of it as |
a tool for sketching |