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Art and Civilization explores the interplay between artistic expression and the development of human societies throughout history. This course examines how art reflects cultural values, beliefs, and technological advancements, tracing its evolution from ancient civilizations to the modern era. Students will analyze significant works of painting, sculpture, architecture, and other visual arts in their historical and social contexts, gaining insight into the ways art has influenced and been influenced by politics, religion, and philosophy. Through case studies and critical discussions, the course encourages an appreciation of the diversity and significance of artistic achievements across civilizations.
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Art A Brief History 6th Edition by Marilyn Stokstad
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Chapter 1: Prehistoric Art in Europe
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Q1) Compared to Paleolithic sculpture,the Woman and Man from Cernavoda display more
A)exaggerated features.
B)attitude and expression.
C)idealization.
D)ritual significance.
Answer: B
Q2) A circle formed by stones or wooden posts is called a A)henge.
B)dolmen.
C)cairn.
D)corbel.
Answer: A
Q3) As seen in the houses of Çatalhöyük,what is the focus of many Neolithic paintings?
A)people planting crops
B)herds of animals
C)exaggerated female figures
D)violent and wild scenes
Answer: D
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Chapter 2: Art of the Ancient Near East
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Q1) Discuss the formal characteristics of the lamassu figures?
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The large, high-relief sculpture of a winged lion guarded the palace doorways.
With the face of kings, shown through beard and helmet, the lamassu figures were meant to symbolize the dominance of the realm.
They were also supposed to act as protectors and were realistic from the front or side. The figures have five legs to show motion and look lifelike.
Q2) Describe the function and appearance of Sumerian votive figures.
Answer: Essay responses should include these points:
The images are dedicated to the gods.
They are seen in cylindrical form, as stocky men are bare-chested and wear sheepskin kilts.
The bold, glaring, inlaid eyes may be related to statements that advise worshipers to approach their deities with an attentive gaze.
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Chapter 3: Art of Ancient Egypt
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Q1) Ptolemaic mummy portraits were painted using what medium?
A)encaustic
B)fresco
C)oil
D)watercolor
Answer: A
Q2) Who unified Upper and Lower Egypt into one empire?
A)Khafre
B)Hatshepsut
C)Akhenaten
D)Narmer
Answer: D
Q3) Which was the function of the Palette of Narmer?
A)a breastplate
B)a shield
C)a place to grind paint for eye makeup
D)a stele to honor the king
Answer: C
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Chapter 4: Early Asian Art
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Q1) The Gupta monarchs promoted
A)Islam.
B)Hinduism.
C)Jainism.
D)Buddhism.
Q2) Which of the following is a building used as a tomb?
A)stupa
B)module
C)mausoleum
D)cenotaph
Q3) Which of the following is an architectural element that projects from a wall and often helps support a horizontal element?
A)corbel
B)cairn
C)torana
D)bracket
Q4) Describe the Silk Road and its use and effect in China and the West.
Q5) Describe the architectural elements and symbolism of the Great Stupa at Sanchi.
Q6) How is the colossal Seated Buddha from Sanxi,China,different from its earlier Indian counterparts?
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Chapter 5: Art of Ancient Greece and the Aegean World
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Q1) How does the altar from Pergamon highlight the characteristics of Hellenistic art?
Q2) When a building or room has free-standing columns around it,it is said to be A)archaic.
B)crenellated.
C)Ionic.
D)peristyle.
Q3) Which of the following is a horizontal lintel consisting of three other horizontal elements?
A)architrave
B)entablature
C)echinus
D)metopes
Q4) Which two conflicting trends increased in prominence in Hellenistic sculpture?
A)realistic and abstract
B)Classical and anti-Classical
C)organic and geometric
D)conservative and liberal
Q5) How does the Aphrodite of Melos combine fourth-century styles with Hellenistic styles?
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Chapter 6: Etruscan and Roman Art
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Q1) The term "impluvium" refers to A)a pool for catching rainwater.
B)an entrance to an interior atrium.
C)a series of engaged columns used for decorative purposes.
D)a formal reception room within a luxurious Roman home.
Q2) A structure that transports flowing water is called A)a voussoir.
B)a pier.
C)a bay.
D)an aqueduct.
Q3) Who was the Roman emperor that succeeded Hadrian and was known for his military and intellectual achievements?
A)Commodus
B)Marcus Agrippa
C)Marcus Aurelius
D)Trajan
Q4) How do an Etruscan temple and a Greek temple compare in form?
Q5) Citing examples,discuss what the Roman Empire valued based on the commemorative nature of the architecture.
Q6) Describe the idea of allegory as it demonstrated in the Augustus of Primaporta.
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Chapter 7: Jewish, early Christian, and Byzantine Art
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Q1) Which of the following was in the Ark of the Covenant?
A)tablets with the Ten Commandments
B)the bones of Abraham
C)Moses' staff and robe
D)a weapon of unimaginable destructive power
Q2) The icon Virgin and Child with Saints and Angels from the Monastery of St.Catherine is among the oldest images of Mary in a position of importance.Discuss her image.How is Roman realism combined with stylization and two-dimensional pattern?
Q3) Where was the synagogue at Dura-Europos located?
A)private home
B)catacomb
C)palace
D)marketplace
Q4) Which of the following is an image of a holy person?
A)mandorla
B)icon
C)cherub
D)cloison
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Chapter 8: Islamic Art
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Q1) Which Islamic art form was most well known and accepted best in Europe?
A)tugras
B)carpets
C)ceramics
D)silks
Q2) What is the name for a wall in a mosque that is oriented toward Mecca?
A)mihrab
B)iwan
C)qibla
D)madrasa
Q3) What was the intended audience of the narrative painting,Court of Gayumars?
A)the rulers
B)the laity
C)the imam
D)the elite
Q4) In Turkey,which dynasty brought the Byzantine Empire to an end?
A)Mughal
B)Umayyad
C)Ottoman
D)Saljuq
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Chapter 9: Later Asian Art
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Q1) Which is a construction method used in Japan in which a large wooden sculpture is made from smaller carved blocks?
A)woodblock
B)system
C)joined-block
D)assemblage
Q2) What makes Shen Zhou's Poet on a Mountaintop such an excellent example of literati painting during the Ming dynasty?
Q3) Which of the following is the knob-like architectural decoration found at the top point of a spire where earthly and cosmic worlds are thought to join?
A)axis-mundi
B)finial
C)shikara
D)mandapa
Q4) Which is a technique in which cutout paper is pasted onto another surface?
A)gilding
B)collage
C)polychrome
D)paste-up
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Chapter 10: Early Medieval and Romanesque Art
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Q1) Which of the following describes the nave ceiling at the Cathedral of St.James,Santiago de Compostela?
A)wooden coffered
B)groin vault
C)dome
D)barrel vault
Q2) On Christ in Majesty from the Church of San Climent,Tahull,Spain,whose influence is seen in the frontal pose,the repeated lines,and the alpha and omega symbols?
A)Byzantine
B)Ottonian
C)Mozarabic
D)Hiberno-Saxon
Q3) Describe the style and characteristics of the page with Matthew the Evangelist from the Ebbo Gospels.
Q4) Define,describe,give an example,and explain the purpose of a continuous ambulatory in a pilgrimage church.
Q5) Discuss the narrative,composition,and style seen in the panel Creation and Fall of Adam and Eve by Wiligelmo.
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Chapter 11: Gothic Art
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Q1) Which two new religious orders arose to serve the urban populations in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries?
A)the Augustinians and the Benedictines
B)the Cluniacs and the Cistercians
C)the Franciscans and the Dominicans
D)the Jesuits and the Trappists
Q2) Where did the pope and his court move in 1309?
A)Rome
B)Constantinople
C)Avignon
D)Athens
Q3) Which of the following is the name for a new type of church that developed in the thirteenth century in Germanic lands?
A)a central-plan church
B)a basilican church
C)a hall church
D)a pilgrimage church
Q4) Describe the style and the significance of the two-page opening with Psalm 1 from the Windmill Psalter from the thirteenth century.
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Chapter 12: Early Renaissance Art
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Q1) Describe how Martin Schongauer created an emotionally charged engraving.Give examples of technique and compare this technique with that of a woodcut.
Q2) Which of the following aspect of Très Riches Heures created by the Limbourg brothers is a Gothic convention?
A)the lack of a middle ground
B)the high placement of the horizon line
C)the depiction of only the peasant class
D)the attention to precisely following one-point perspective
Q3) Which is the name of Brunelleschi's added element,like a section of entablature,above the capital and below the springing of the arch?
A)aedicul
B)loggia
C)impost block
D)balustrade
Q4) Who called Ghiberti's doors the "Gates of Paradise"?
A)Michelangelo
B)Brunelleschi
C)Vasari
D)Masaccio
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Chapter 13: Art of the High Renaissance and Reformation
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Q1) How does Hieronymus Bosch's painting Garden of Earthly Delights defy the traditions of the Renaissance?
Q2) What is the word for strong contrasts of light and dark on an object?
A)sfumato
B)chiaroscuro
C)trompe l'oeil
D)poesie
Q3) How and why did the early style of Michelangelo,as seen in David,change to his later style,as seen in the Last Judgment?
Q4) What did Veronese change about his Feast in the House of Levi from traditional scenes of the same subject?
A)He removed the German soldiers.
B)He changed the architectural setting.
C)He revised the title of the work.
D)He removed the dogs.
Q5) Compare and contrast Lucas Cranach's Nymph of the Spring and Titian's "Venus" of Urbino.
Q6) Describe the typical characteristics of Mannerism.Use Pontormo's work to explain the ways these characteristics appear.
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Chapter 14: Seventeenth-Century Art in Europe
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Q1) Which of the following artists was a strong influence on the early career of Velázquez?
A)Michelangelo
B)Caravaggio
C)Carracci
D)Raphael
Q2) Other than being an interesting work of art,what is the function of the painting
Portuguese Synagogue,Amsterdam by Emanuel de Witte?
A)It provides a metaphor for eternal judgment.
B)It records seventeenth-century building practices.
C)It documents religious tolerance.
D)It shows the strength of the painters' guild.
Q3) What made the flower paintings of Rachel Ruysch so highly prized?
A)the personal expression
B)the historical context
C)the color harmonies
D)the linear perspective
Q4) How does Bernini's Cornaro Chapel reveal the characteristics of Baroque art?
Q5) How is Vermeer's Woman Holding a Balance both a genre painting and an allegorical vanitas painting?
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Chapter 15: Art of the Americas
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Q1) Spanish conquerors were obsessed with amassing what materials?
A)iron and bronze
B)salt and spices
C)gold and silver
D)tobacco and diamonds
Q2) The battle-scene hide painting from the North Dakota Mandan Native Americans was collected by
A)Daniel Boone.
B)George Washington.
C)Alexander Hamilton.
D)Lewis and Clark.
Q3) Which ancient Americans developed the most advanced writing system?
A)Olmec
B)Aztec
C)Nazca
D)Maya
Q4) Discuss the purpose of Inca tunics and the message,meaning,and symbolism in the Inca's use of pattern and color on cloth.
Q5) How was the Chilkat Blanket used? Discuss the formal qualities and style.
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Chapter 16: African Art
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Q1) What are the parallel lines on the Ife portrait heads?
A)tattoos
B)ceremonial paint
C)a beaded veil
D)scarification patterns
Q2) Explain the myth of "primitive" art and how it applies to African art.
Q3) How does the performance style of Ngady mwaash differ from Bwoom?
A)It is performed by women.
B)It is celebrating the life of the deceased.
C)It is graceful and nonthreatening.
D)It is accompanied by weaponry.
Q4) What was the function of the Nkisi Nkonde?
A)It protected the home from malicious gods.
B)It accompanied the owner on treacherous journeys.
C)It was carried into the fields for luck.
D)It acted as an impartial arbiter of justice.
Q5) Discuss the iconography and technique of the Olowe of Ise palace door.How did it express power?
Q6) Describe the purpose of how a nkisi nkonde changes over time to become a visual record of a community.
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Chapter 17: European and American Art, 1715-1840
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Q1) British eighteenth-century painting favored which of the following as a theme?
A)moralizing scenes
B)religious history
C)classical mythology
D)high-minded history
Q2) What medium did Honoré Daumier use to create biting caricatures and social commentary in print form?
A)woodblock
B)lithography
C)sculpture
D)painting
Q3) Which best describes the painting of John Constable?
A)turbulent
B)fantastic natural scenery
C)naturalistic scenes of rural stability
D)depicting natural disasters
Q4) Describe the composition and style of Jean-Honoré Fragonard's The Swing.
Q5) Discuss why David's Oath of the Horatii is considered to be a severely Classical painting by a truly Neoclassical artist.
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Chapter 18: European and American Art, 1840-1910
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Q1) Which photographic process involved developing a negative from which an unlimited number of positives could be made?
A)daguerreotype
B)calotype
C)lithograph
D)albumen print
Q2) Mary Cassatt is best known for painting
A)landscapes.
B)the ballet.
C)outdoor social scenes.
D)mother and child.
Q3) According to Charles Garnier,to hear,to see,and to be seen was the purpose of what?
A)the Louvre
B)art museums
C)the Paris Opera house
D)the Eiffel Tower
Q4) What was japonisme and how did it influence Western art? Give an example.
Q5) Discuss the style of The Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh.How does van Gogh expand on the ideas of the Impressionists?
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1900-1945
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Q1) Which kind of work did the 291 gallery promote?
A)American Realism
B)Impressionism
C)European Modernism
D)the "Ashcan School"
Q2) Merit Oppenheim's most famous work intentionally confuses which element of art?
A)line
B)color
C)texture
D)value
Q3) Which art movement combined Fauvist color with Analytic Cubist form in works dedicated to the modern city and modern technology?
A)Futurism
B)Orphism
C)Suprematism
D)Dada
Q4) Discuss the political and iconographical significance of Diego Rivera's mural in the Palacio de Bellas Artes,Man,Controller of the Universe.
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Chapter 20: Art Since 1945
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Q1) Which of the following determined that China painting and needlework are traditional women's media but should be considered "high" art forms?
A)Judy Chicago
B)Betye Saar
C)Faith Ringgold
D)Cindy Sherman
Q2) By design,the walls of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial are pointing toward
A)the White House and the Capitol.
B)the National Academy of Sciences and the National Gallery.
C)the Lincoln Memorial and the Washington Monument.
D)the State Department and the Justice Department.
Q3) Which of the following describes Richard Hamilton's work?
A)It satirizes American materialism.
B)It uses imagery found in cartoons and advertisements.
C)It celebrates middle-class social and material values.
D)It uses precisely structured patterns of lines and colors.
Q4) Discuss the International Style of Architecture and its expression in the Seagram Building in New York.Include its use of materials and ideas of aesthetics.
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Chapter 21: Introduction
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Q1) Which of the following terms best describes the painting Flower Piece with Curtain by van der Spelt and van Mieris?
A)abstraction
B)naturalism/realism
C)nonrepresentational
D)figurative
Q2) What formal device leads the viewers' eyes directly to Christ in Leonardo's The Last Supper?
A)the family crest
B)the contrasting colors
C)the white tablecloth
D)the regularly spaced tapestries
Q3) What is art history? What are some of the natural and human threats to artworks that concern contemporary art historians? Give an example.
Q4) How many times does Zhu Da sign his work Quince (Mugua)?
A)1
B)2
C)3
D)4
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