Exam 1: Why Do We Study the History of Art

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Which of the following terms is used to describe a work of art that portrays an object's surface reality convincingly enough for it to be mistaken for the real thing?

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Discuss the ways in which artists have been seen as being uniquely in touch with supernatural forces, even through to modern times.

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Lord Elgin acquired the sculptures that bear his name in open defiance of existing local, British, and international laws.

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Alberti traced the origins of art back to the myth of which Greek youth who fell in love with his own reflection?

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In his The Betrayal of Images, Magritte painted an image of a pipe directly above a caption which read, in French,

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By its very nature, which of the following artistic forms is most challenging to describe through words and pictures?

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Throughout history, major works of art have been broken down and destroyed in order to extract the precious materials from which they were made.

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Leonardo da Vinci grew so emotionally attached to his Mona Lisa that during his own lifetime he refused to surrender it to the patron who had commissioned it.

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As a rule, architecture diverges from painting and sculpture in being more

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Giotto's fly on the nose of a painted figure by Cimabue is an example of

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With which of the following statements would a semiotician most likely agree?

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Assess the different approaches available to art historians. Is any one approach more valuable than others? Why or why not?

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Both Judaism and Islam have strong and lively figurative artistic traditions.

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Which of the following is NOT a methodology of art history?

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What does Steichen's struggle to import a Brancusi bird into the United States reveal about the malleability of definitions of art?

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The biblical story of the Tower of Babel primarily conveys which lesson?

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The intrinsic value of an object is always clear.

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Which thinker is most closely associated with deconstruction?

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Many cultures fear that damage done to an image of an object can do damage to the object itself.

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The basic principle behind formalism could best be summarized as

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Exam 1: Why Do We Study the History of Art

Which of the following terms is used to describe a work of art that portrays an object's surface reality convincingly enough for it to be mistaken for the real thing?

Discuss the ways in which artists have been seen as being uniquely in touch with supernatural forces, even through to modern times.

Lord Elgin acquired the sculptures that bear his name in open defiance of existing local, British, and international laws.

Alberti traced the origins of art back to the myth of which Greek youth who fell in love with his own reflection?

In his The Betrayal of Images, Magritte painted an image of a pipe directly above a caption which read, in French,

By its very nature, which of the following artistic forms is most challenging to describe through words and pictures?

Throughout history, major works of art have been broken down and destroyed in order to extract the precious materials from which they were made.

Leonardo da Vinci grew so emotionally attached to his Mona Lisa that during his own lifetime he refused to surrender it to the patron who had commissioned it.

As a rule, architecture diverges from painting and sculpture in being more

Giotto's fly on the nose of a painted figure by Cimabue is an example of

With which of the following statements would a semiotician most likely agree?

Assess the different approaches available to art historians. Is any one approach more valuable than others? Why or why not?

Both Judaism and Islam have strong and lively figurative artistic traditions.

Which of the following is NOT a methodology of art history?

What does Steichen's struggle to import a Brancusi bird into the United States reveal about the malleability of definitions of art?

The biblical story of the Tower of Babel primarily conveys which lesson?

The intrinsic value of an object is always clear.

Which thinker is most closely associated with deconstruction?

Many cultures fear that damage done to an image of an object can do damage to the object itself.

The basic principle behind formalism could best be summarized as

The Language of Art

Prehistoric Western Europe

The Ancient Near East

Ancient Egypt

The Aegean

The Art of Ancient Greece

The Art of the Etruscans

Ancient Rome

Early Christian and Byzantine Art

The Early Middle Ages

Romanesque Art

Gothic Art

Precursors of the Renaissance

The Early Renaissance

The High Renaissance in Italy

Mannerism and the Later Sixteenth Century in Italy

Sixteenth-Century Painting and Printmaking in Northern Europe

The Baroque Style in Western Europe

Rococo, the Eighteenth Century, and Revival Styles

Neoclassicism: the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries

Romanticism: the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries

Nineteenth-Century Realism

Nineteenth-Century Impressionism

Post-Impressionism and the Late Nineteenth Century

The Early Twentieth Century: Picasso, Fauvism, Expressionism, and Matisse

Cubism, Futurism, and Related Twentieth-Century Styles

Dada, Surrealism, Social Realism, Regionalism, and Abstraction

Mid-Century American Abstraction

Pop Art, Op Art, Minimalism, and Conceptualism

Continuity, Innovation, and Globalization

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