CHAPTER 1 MULTIPLE CHOICE - Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question. 1) Broad areas of human creativity involving analysis of values are collectively referred to as A) the humanities. B) scientific methodologies. C) the arts and sciences. D) the history of mankind.
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The text places emphasis on studying the humanities through A) the arts. B) the sciences. C) philosophy. D) literature.
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Cave art reveals that A) art has a geographical connection. B) from the beginning, humans instinctively made revealing forms. C) animals have been important in the development of values. D) art is a sacred matter.
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Which statement best corresponds with the author's approach to the humanities? A) The commercial success of a work of art is the best way to understand its value. B) Matters of taste are indisputable; beauty is in the eye of the beholder. C) Going beyond the facts to the values that evoke our feelings. D) It is nearly impossible to fully analyze works of art that are not considered beautiful.
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The organization of a medium that clarifies or reveals a subject matter is described as A) artistic form. B) emotional form. C) sensuous form. D) receptive form.
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Why must artists make the structure interesting?
A) because we often respond to artistic form without awareness of its affect<!--Markup Copied from Habitat--> B) because we are most impressed by commercially successful works of art C) because we actively seek to engage with structural components D) because we are unable to form an opinion without structure
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What is the subject matter of Blume's The Eternal City? A) self-portrait B) geometry C) African culture D) fascism
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Which statement best describes Robert Herrick's poem, "The Pillar of Fame"? A) It lacks a clearly defined structure. B) Its visual formal structure illuminates the subject of fame. C) Its structure and the theme are unrelated. D) It conveys objectivity.
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In Okara's poem, "Piano and Drums," what does the piano symbolize?
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A) music B) God C) African cultures D) European cultures
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Knowledge about the cultural and political implications—the background—of a work of
A) makes very little impact on our engagement. B) aids in our perception and intensifies our response. C) requires minimal effort or participation. D) is irrelevant to our enjoyment.
ESSAY. Write your answer in the space provided or on a separate sheet of paper. 11) Using your experience in perceiving either Blume'sThe Eternal City or David Alfaro Siqueiros'sEcho of a Scream, discuss how education and experience changed your perception of the art. Were your values identified at all? If so, how?
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Answer Key Test name: Chap 01_11e_ Jacobus 1) A The humanities are described as broad areas of human creativity and study, such as philosophy, history, social sciences, the arts, and literature distinct from the sciences. 2) A The text establishes its approach to studying the humanities through the arts. The author contends that values are clarified in enduring ways via the arts. 3) B From the beginning, our species instinctively had an interest in making revealing forms.<!--Markup Copied from Habitat--> 4) C We learn to recognize the values illuminated in such works as well as to understand the ways they are expressed. Such development is the meaning of “education” in the sense in which we have been using the term. 5) A Artistic form is the organization or composition of a medium that clarifies or reveals a subject matter. 6) A Because we often respond to artistic form without being conscious that it is affecting us, the painter must make the structure interesting.<!-Markup Copied from Habitat-->
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7) D 8) B The design of Herrick's poem has a visual formal structure (pillar shaped) that illuminates its (fame) subject matter. His poem achieves the blending of ideas and objects, of the abstract and the concrete, through its structure. 9) D Okara symbolizes the clash in terms of music, and he opposes two musical instruments: the drum and the piano. They stand, respectively, for the African and the European cultures.<!--Markup Copied from Habitat--> 10) B Background information about a work of art and increased sensitivity to its artistic form intensify our responses.<!--Markup Copied from Habitat--> 11) Answers will vary
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CHAPTER 2 MULTIPLE CHOICE - Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question. 1) The term "work of art" implies the concept of A) existence. B) making. C) naturalism. D) neutrality.
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In order for something to be art, it must be A) a painting. B) a natural phenomenon. C) beautiful. D) human-made.
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Artistic form usually implies a strong degree of perceptible A) unity. B) angularity. C) content. D) disunity.
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Which painting requires a greater degree of participation? A) Goya, May 3, 1808 B) Adams, Execution in Saigon C) Valadon, Reclining Nude D) Saville, Trace
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A participative experience involves A) undivided and sustained attention. B) weak artistic form. C) limited or restricted background knowledge. D) perception of narrative quality.
6) Subject matter clarified and made meaningful through its detachment from accidental or insignificant aspects denotes A) participation. B) content. C) artistic form. D) perception.
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What effect does form have on the subject matter of paintings like Goya's? A) contextual B) representative C) objective D) transformative
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A participative experience involves A) participating with other people in enjoying a work of art. B) feeling sympathy for some character in a work of art. C) identifying with some character in a work of art. D) undivided and sustained attention to a work of art.
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A) participation B) content C) artistic form D) subject matter
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Lichtenstein used comic strips as subject matter because A) he could make money with such a commercial subject matter. B) the comic strips were almost art and thus easily improved into art. C) of the stark simplicity and power of comic strips. D) he felt they were beautiful.
ESSAY. Write your answer in the space provided or on a separate sheet of paper. 11) Do you agree with the authors' assertion that participation is the most fundamental of the basic distinctions of art? Why? If you disagree, which do you think is the most important, and why? Do you have any experiences with art to draw on to support your claims?
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Answer Key Test name: Chap 02_11e_ Jacobus 1) B The term "work of art" implies the concept of "making." 2) D Three criteria for determining whether something is a work of art are that (1) the object or event is made by an artist, (2) the object or event is intended to be a work of art by its maker, and (3) recognized experts agree that it is a work of art.<!--Markup Copied from Habitat--> 3) A Artistic form implies that the parts we perceive—for example, line, color, texture, shape, and space in a painting—have been unified for the most profound effect possible. That effect is revelatory. Artistic form reveals, clarifies, enlightens, and gives fresh meaning to something valuable in life, some subject matter. A form that lacks a significant degree of unity is unlikely to accomplish this. Our daily experiences usually are characterized more by disunity than by unity. 4) A In the Prado Museum in Madrid, Goya’s painting continually draws and holds the attention of innumerable viewers, many of whom know little or nothing about the rebellion of 1808. Adams’s photograph is also a powerful image, of course—and probably initially more powerful than the Goya—but the form of the photograph is not strong enough to hold most of us on that image for very long. 5) A
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The participative experience—the undivided and sustained attention to an object or event that makes us lose our sense of separation from that object or event—is induced by strong or artistic form. Participation is not likely to develop with weak form because weak form tends to allow our attention to wander. 6) B 7) D The artistic form of the painting enriches or interprets its subject matter, says something significant about it. The subject matter of the painting has been transformed by the form.<!--Markup Copied from Habitat--> 8) D 9) A 10) C Lichtenstein reports that he was attracted to the comic strip by its stark simplicity—the blatant primary colors, the ungainly black lines that encircle the shapes, the balloons that isolate the spoken words or thoughts of the characters. He was struck by the apparent inconsistency between the strong emotions of the stories and the highly impersonal, mechanical style in which they were expressed. Despite the crudity of the comic strip, Lichtenstein saw power in the directness of the medium. Somehow the cartoons mirrored something about ourselves. Lichtenstein set out to clarify what that something was. At first people laughed, as was to be expected. 11) Answers will vary
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