Exam 38: Multiplicity and Diversity: Cultures of Liberation and Identity in the 1960s and 1970s

Why did Yale's architecture graduate students commission Claes Oldenburg to create Lipstick (Ascending)on Caterpillar Tracks?

How did television's An American Family star Lance Loud create controversy in the mid 1970s?

Why did Smithson use the spiral shape for his land art?

As recreated in Jeff Wall's photographic illustration for Invisible Man,why does Ellison's narrator need light?

According to composer Philip Glass,what made the score for Robert Wilson's Einstein on the Beach so difficult?

Supporting your claims with specific works,show how two of the following female visual artists of the 1960s explored and aimed to redefine gender roles: Judy Chicago,Eleanor Antin,Cindy Sherman.

What did the college students involved in the 1960s antiwar movement want school administrations to do?

In The Feminist Mystique,why does Betty Friedan reject Freud's idea that women envy men?

How did many U.S.artists manage to undermine museums and galleries that might have displayed their works?

What was a main effect of Christo and Jeanne-Claude's Running Fence?

What did the electronic synthesizer allow composers to create for the first time?

The chapters "Continuity and Change" section poses an intriguing question: does technology in fact threaten the idea of identity and "self"? Referencing your knowledge about and experience with specific media and technology,argue for or against that idea of identity losee.

In his mural F-111,how does artist James Rosenquist equate the military with consumer culture?

Why did Smithson chose the inaccessible,inhospitable Utah location for Spiral Jetty?

Identify two works of land art discussed in the chapter,analyzing the statement made by their construction and their impact on the environment.

Why did the government continue to fund building the F-111 fighter bomber even though it was declared obsolete?

Explain the image of the American male as presented by the Marlboro Man.Then analyze two ways that stereotype was challenged and possibly debunked by the feminist and gay pride movements of the 1970s.