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Course Introduction
This course explores the dynamic relationship between art and society, examining how artistic expression reflects, influences, and challenges cultural, social, and political contexts. Students will analyze various art forms including visual arts, literature, music, and performance from historical and contemporary perspectives, considering the impact of societal values, identities, and ideologies on creative production. Through case studies and critical discussions, the course encourages an understanding of art as both a product and a catalyst of social change, fostering the ability to interpret artworks within broader social frameworks.
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Creative Impulse An Introduction to the Arts 8th Edition by Dennis J. Sporre
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Chapter 1: Introduction Understanding the Arts
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Q1) __________ comprises a succession of sounds with rhythmic and tonal organization; it is one of the two most important technical elements of music.
Answer: Melody
Q2) When metal forms the frame of a building (as in a skyscraper),it is called __________ construction.
A) balloon
B) bearing
C) rib-cage
D) steel-cage
E) structural
Answer: D
Q3) __________ refers to balance achieved by using unequal shapes.
A) Harmony
B) Repetition
C) Asymmetry
D) Symmetry
E) Mass
Answer: C
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Chapter 2: The Ancient World
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Q1) The __________ symbolizes the royal leadership of ancient Sumer,as well as masculine fertility.
Answer: he-goat
Q2) The capital of the ruler Hammurabi was __________.
A) Sumer
B) Baghdad
C) Babylon
D) Assyria
E) Mesopotamia
Answer: C
Q3) What is one reason lifelike sculptures of humans were rare in the ancient period?
Answer: many ancient cultures considered lifelike portrayal dangerous
Q4) Who is the main character of the Gilgamesh epic?
Answer: a Sumerian hero,likely based on a ruler of Uruk
Q5) The caves at __________ have been sealed to protect them from atmospheric damage.
Answer: Lascaux
Q6) The __________ are the oldest existing buildings in the world.
Answer: pyramids
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Chapter 3: The Aegean and Archaic Greece
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Q1) Hesiod's most famous work is the __________,which traces the mythological history of the Greek gods.
Answer: Theogony
Q2) The Greek polis was comprised of four distinct sections.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) The Hellene calendar began on the date of the first __________.
A) Greek War
B) Persian War
C) Olympics
D) Egyptian War
E) Peloponnesian War
Answer: C
Q4) Minoan art tells us that they likely had a cult of a sacred wolf.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q5) Which Greek philosopher argued that mathematics discovers universal constants?
Answer: Pythagoras
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Chapter 4: Greek Classicism and Hellenism
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Q1) In what context would one have seen Greek theatre?
Q2) __________ style is an approach to art characterized by individuality,virtuosity,and emotion.
A) Platonic
B) Ionic
C) Classical
D) Ionic.
E) Hellenistic..
Q3) Greek astronomers were aware the earth is a sphere.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The age after Alexander's death is called __________.
A) Classical
B) Archaic
C) Imperial
D) Historia
E) Hellenistic
Q5) By placing some figures higher than others,fifth century B.C.E Greek vase painters suggested __________.
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Q6) In general,what did the philosophy and aesthetics of the Greeks focus on?
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Chapter 5: The Roman Period
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Q1) Roman expansion was built on __________.
A) trade
B) intermarriage
C) conquest
D) opportunism
E) none of these
Q2) __________ refers to painting on wet plaster.
A) Wall painting
B) Mural painting
C) Mosaic
D) Fresco
E) Trompe l'oeil
Q3) The Romans invented the __________ trumpet.
Q4) Octavian became,effectively,the first "emperor" of Rome.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Which Roman emperors apparently loved lewd pantomime?
Q6) Which language did the early Romans consider a peasant language?
Q7) The phrase __________ refers to the Roman attempt to control the dissatisfied urban masses.
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Chapter 6: Judaism and Early Christianity
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Q1) Rabbinical interpretations and commentaries on the Mishnah are called
A) Talmud
B) Oral Law
C) Gemara
D) Torah
E) Petateuch
Q2) Messiah means "__________."
A) chosen people
B) anointed one
C) teacher
D) God
E) Diaspora
Q3) __________ split the Roman empire,creating two capital cities.
A) Diocletian
B) Caesar
C) Augustus
D) Constantine
E) Midian
Q4) Which New Testament books were used by the earliest Christians?
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Chapter 7: Byzantium and Islam
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Q1) The __________ demanded the removal of icons from Orthodox churches,on grounds that they were in fact idols.
A) clergy
B) Muslims
C) Visigoths
D) iconoclasts
E) iconophiles
Q2) The goal of hieratic style is to represent real life.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Works of Byzantine art often picture the hierarchy of state and religion,with Christ at the top.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The Qur'an is composed of 114 __________,or chapters.
Q5) Which Byzantine medium was more important for wall art than painting?
Q6) A(n)__________ places all the separate stories within a larger framework,as in The Arabian Nights.
Q7) What were the two highest forms of study in Byzantine intellectual life?
Q8) In the early years of Islam,music was considered a "__________ pleasure."
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Chapter 8: The Early Middle Ages
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Q1) Hildegard of Bingen's Book of Divine Works expounds on her theology of microcosm and macrocosm.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The daily schedule of the monastery is called the __________.
A) Book of Hours
B) horarium
C) itinerary
D) litany
E) Golden Mean
Q3) What was the primary topic of medieval secular music?
Q4) The philosophy of Peter Abelard remains a part of Roman Catholic dogma today.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Most contemporary scholars believe that theatre died out during several hundred years of the Middle Ages.
A)True
B)False
Q6) The most common architectural structure during the Middle Ages was the
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Chapter 9: The High Middle Ages
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Q1) The texts of Aristotle entered Western Europe through __________ sources in Spain.
A) Jewish
B) Catholic
C) Muslim
D) Greek
E) Egyptian
Q2) The Crusades nearly reunited the eastern and western Church.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Abbot Suger's goals for the Abbey Church of St Denis emphasized "__________ Divine."
Q4) Compare and contrast a painting by Cimabue and Giotto.Discuss the innovations brought to painting by Giotto,and explain their likely artistic or social sources.
Q5) Objects designed to visualize Christian themes and enhance private worship are called __________.
Q6) In Chrétien's story of Arthur and Camelot,which character's sufferings and trials parallel those of Christ?
Q7) What subjects inspired the musical compositions of Francesco Landini?
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Chapter 10: The Early Renaissance
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Q1) Scholas were similar to modern-day __________.
A) professors
B) art critics
C) policy analysts
D) public schools
E) community centers
Q2) The Italian city of __________ was the first democracy in Europe since Ancient Greece.
Q3) What were the social,political,and economic factors that created a sense of "individualism" in the Early Renaissance? Give at least two examples of how this individualism was expressed in the arts.
Q4) Capitalism supported the guild system.
A)True
B)False
Q5) What Renaissance system of thought influences Donatello's depiction of St.George as a "hero of everyday proportions"?
Q6) Is the term "Renaissance" more accurately applied to artists or societies at large?
Q7) What does the Florence Cathedral's dome resemble more than a classical dome?
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Chapter 11: The High Renaissance and Mannerism
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Q1) .Sophonisba Anguissola was a(n)__________ for the Queen of Spain.
A) attendant
B) court painter
C) court musician
D) playwright
E) poet
Q2) __________ was the center of patronage during the High Renaissance.
A) Padua
B) Genoa
C) Venice
D) Florence
E) Rome
Q3) The basis of the composition of Leonardo's Virgin and Child with St Anne is a
Q4) __________ strives for harmony,order,reason,intellect,objectivity,and formal discipline.
Q5) Mannerism probably allowed for greater artistic experimentation.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Michelangelo painted the ceiling of the __________.
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Chapter 12: Renaissance and Reformation in Northern Europe
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Q1) The __________ of Flemish painting separated it from the Gothic style and connected it to the Italian Renaissance.
A) subject matter
B) two-dimensionality
C) three-dimensionality
D) content
E) patronage
Q2) Shakespeare's plays fall into three genres: comedies,tragedies,and __________.
A) parodies
B) satires
C) dramas
D) histories
E) epics
Q3) London was the center of music __________,distributing sheet music to an unprecedented audience of musicians.
Q4) John Calvin's doctrine of __________ argued that God had already chosen those he would save.
Q5) Hieronymus __________ did not follow the developments of Italy.
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Q6) The Globe __________ of London appealed to both lords and commoners.
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Chapter 13: The Baroque Age
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Q1) The development of the __________ included fictional biographies of people with whom the reader would identify.
A) opera
B) metaphysical poem
C) restoration comedy
D) novel
E) ballet
Q2) The work of __________ is baroque in style.
A) Alberti
B) Michelangelo
C) Palladio
D) Fragonard
E) Bernini
Q3) Antonio Vivaldi is known as a master of __________.
A) opera
B) restoration comedy
C) sonata
D) concerto
E) program music
Q4) Who was the first Englishwoman to earn a living by writing?
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Chapter 14: The Enlightenment
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Q1) The rise of the __________ was an important component of dance during this period.
A) danseur
B) corps de ballet
C) ballerina
D) danseuse
E) waltz
Q2) The rococo style in literature produced much __________.
A) poetry
B) satire
C) realism
D) classicism
E) comedy
Q3) Johann Gottfried von Herder sought to revive __________ through the use of the "national language" in schools,books,and newspapers.
A) "national feeling"
B) community
C) democracy
D) traditional values
E) German mythology
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Chapter 15: The Romantic Age
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Q1) A musical theme tied to a single idea,person,or object is called a __________.
A) Lieder
B) opera buffa
C) Gesamtkunstwerk
D) collage
E) Leitmotif
Q2) Hegel considered __________ the most universal and spiritual of all arts.
A) theatre
B) poetry
C) literature
D) classical sculpture
E) painting
Q3) __________ was one of the first artists to complete paintings out-of-doors.
A) Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
B) Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
C) Francisco de Goya
D) Joseph Mallord William Turner
E) Théodore Géricault
Q4) Franz Schubert was the earliest composer of __________.
Q5) Which well-known poem brought Edgar Allan Poe into the spotlight?
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Chapter 16: Realism, Impressionism, and Beyond
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Q1) Emile Zola,a typical naturalist,believed that human nature was completely determined by heredity.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Twentieth century composers were less concerned with resolving dissonance in their work than were nineteenth century composers.
A)True B)False
Q3) Art Nouveau rejected all aspects of modernity.
A)True B)False
Q4) __________ was the standard type of harmony in musical compositions prior to the late nineteenth century.
Q5) Prior to the invention of the modern camera,what device did artists use to copy nature accurately?
Q6) The ideas of Sigmund Freud were controversial because of their emphasis on human __________.
Q7) Robert __________ created The Cabinet of Dr.Caligari,a masterpiece of expressionist film.
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Chapter 17: Modernism
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Q1) Jean-Paul Sartre was not only a philosopher but a novelist and playwright.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The author of the poem "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" is __________.
Q3) The musical compositions of __________ were so experimental that many were deemed unplayable.
Q4) Le Corbusier stated that a house is "a machine to be lived in."
A)True
B)False
Q5) The artist who made paintings criticizing the oppression of Indians by Europeans was __________.
A) Grant Wood
B) Aaron Douglas
C) Diego Rivera
D) Pablo Picasso
E) Stuart Davis
Q6) Frank Lloyd Wright's "prairie style" emphasized the values of rural community life.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 18: From Modernism to Postmodernism and Beyond
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Q1) New York's It's Alright to be a Woman Theatre is an example of __________ theatre.
A) alternative lifestyle
B) alternative social
C) modernist
D) absurdist
E) aleatory
Q2) The novels of __________ reflect black vernacular culture and deal with sexual violence.
Q3) Musique actuelle is characterized by a tendency toward __________.
A) humor
B) melancholy
C) nostalgia
D) seriousness
E) rationality
Q4) The __________ were an important collective of experimentalists involved with the development of postmodern dance in the 1960s.
Q5) Absolute freedom and individuality were assumptions of __________ painters in the postwar period.
Q6) "Free jazz" relies on original compositions and creative __________.
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