Culture and the Arts
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Course Introduction
This course explores the dynamic interplay between culture and the arts, examining how artistic expressions reflect, shape, and challenge societal values and identities across different historical periods and global contexts. Students will analyze a variety of art forms including visual arts, music, theatre, dance, and literature to understand how they communicate meaning and contribute to cultural dialogues. Through critical readings, discussions, and creative projects, the course encourages students to think critically about the mutual influences of art and culture, and to appreciate the diversity and vitality of artistic practices around the world.
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Reality Through the Arts 8th Edition by
Dennis J. Sporre
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Chapter 1: Two-Dimensional Art
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Q1) Adding white to any color is called a
A) shade
B) tint
C) value
D) hue
Answer: B
Q2) To copy nature accurately,artists of the sixteenth century used what photographic technique:
A) daguerreotype
B) camera obscura
C) photogenesis
D) calotype
Answer: B
Q3) What are the four basic Principles of Design?
A) unity, harmony, texture, perspective
B) repetition, line, value, illusion
C) balance, line, shape, perspective
D) repetition, unity, balance, focal areas
Answer: D
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Chapter 2: Sculpture
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Q1) The life-like sculptures of Duane Hansen depend on which of the following elements of art?
A) color
B) mass
C) form
D) texture
Answer: A
Q2) In sculpture mass is literal and consists of actual
A) form
B) line
C) volume
D) texture
Answer: C
Q3) Sculptures that project by at least half their depth from their base are called A) bas-relief
B) low relief
C) haut relief
D) mid-relief
Answer: C
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Chapter 3: Architecture
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Q1) An overhanging beam supported at one end is called a
A) post and lintel
B) cantilever
C) flying buttress
D) pendentive
Answer: B
Q2) The Cathedral of St.Peter in York Minster,England used what architectural structure to achieve a sense of lightness?
A) post and lintel
B) flying buttresses
C) cantilever
D) bearing wall
Answer: B
Q3) Tensile strength is the ability of a material to withstand
A) compression
B) weight
C) crushing
D) bending
Answer: D
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Chapter 4: Music and Opera
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Q1) George Frederick Handel's "Hallelujah Chorus" from Messiah is what form of music?
A) art song
B) mass
C) oratorio
D) cantata
Q2) This form of classical music grew out of the Romantic style of the nineteenth century having an emotional tendency.
A) art song
B) fugue
C) cantata
D) concerto
Q3) Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro is an example of what type of opera?
A) comique
B) buffa
C) grand
D) seria
Q4) Explain the elements of rhythm.
Q5) Explain how Hildegard of Bingen's "O Viridissima Virga" illustrates freedom from strict metrical development.
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Chapter 5: Literature
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Q1) Typically this form of nonfiction tells a story usually involving conflicts and emotions through action and dialogue.
A) biography
B) drama
C) character essay
D) familiar essay
Q2) Jane Austen's novel Pride and Prejudice (1813)is what classification of fiction?
A) picaresque
B) manners
C) historical
D) psychological
Q3) Sacred scriptures are what form of literature?
A) fiction
B) biography
C) poetry
D) nonfiction
Q4) Discuss Alice Walker's contribution to American literature? What novel best supports her contribution?
Q5) Discuss the theme and imagery of Phillis Wheatley's poem On Virtue.
Q6) Explain the use of allegory in Christina Rosetti's poem,Uphill (1858).
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Chapter 6: Theatre
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Q1) The term used to describe our reaction to and involvement with what we experience in a theatrical production.
A) resolution
B) aural stimuli
C) empathy
D) catharsis
Q2) The theatrical element that provides necessary background information.
A) plot
B) exposition
C) script
D) foreshadowing
Q3) The main channel of communication between the playwright and the audience.
A) actors
B) script
C) dialogue
D) soliloquy
Q4) What are the three functions of costume design?
Q5) Describe the three types of theatre arrangements.
Q6) In what ways does a director control the dynamics of a play?
Q7) Explain the importance of lighting design in theatrical performance.
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Chapter 7: Cinema
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Q1) A transitional device in filmmaking created by closing or opening the aperture of the camera lens.
A) zoom
B) iris in/iris out
C) lap dissolve
D) differential focus
Q2) The basic unit of filmmaking that the camera records over time.
A) montage
B) shot
C) frame
D) bridging
Q3) Discuss "the gaze" as it relates to viewpoint in film.
Q4) In filmmaking a nonsynchronous spoken commentary often used to convey a character's thoughts.
A) voiceover
B) soundtrack
C) monologue
D) direct address
Q5) How does the filmmaker address tension build up and release in the film Jaws?
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Q6) Explain the filmmaking technique of crosscutting.
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Chapter 8: Dance
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Q1) Modern ballet-twentieth century ballet-has dealt increasingly with what kinds of ideas?
A) abstract
B) narrative
C) mimetic
D) rhythmic
Q2) The choreography of Akram Khan bridges the techniques of Western Modern dance and what other culture?
A) Bali
B) Bangladesh
C) Kathak
D) Islam
Q3) What dance form is performed to traditional music,prescribed movements,and traditional costume?
A) folk
B) jazz
C) world/ritual
D) ballet
Q4) Explain why the work of the light designer is critical in dance.
Q5) What role does color play in dance?
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Chapter 9: Ancient Approaches
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Q1) What Egyptian literature contains spells or magic formulas to protect the deceased in afterlife?
A) The Papyrus Of Ani
B) Hymn to the Aton
C) Book of Going Forth by Day
D) The Psalter
Q2) Ancient Greek philosophy that music had ethical powers and could affect character.
A) doctrine of ethos
B) golden mean
C) Stoicism
D) Sophistry
Q3) Why is Sumerian writing different from other early cultures?
Q4) The most remarkable edifices of Egyptian culture around 2700 B.C.E.
A) pyramids of Giza
B) Great Sphinx
C) temple at Luxor
D) Theban rock tombs
Q5) What is the doctrine of ethos?
Q6) What do the mask of Tutankhamen and the bust of Nefertiti have in common?
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Chapter 10: Artistic Reflections in the Pre-Modern World
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Q1) Unlike Western buildings the stupa does not include this element.
A) interior
B) gateway
C) dome
D) carved figures
Q2) During the first millennium B.C.E.the Nok style in Nigeria first appeared in what form?
A) clay pottery
B) iron weapons
C) carved tools
D) terracotta sculpture
Q3) The first and greatest professional teacher and philosopher in China living almost 1,000 years before Muhammad 500 years before Christ.
A) Buddha
B) Brahman
C) Confucius
D) Allah
Q4) How do the plays of Euripides differ from those of Sophocles or Aeschylus?
Q5) Explain contrapposto.
Q6) Explain why the sculpture Nike of Samothrace is considered Hellenistic style.
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Chapter 11: Artistic Styles in the Emerging Modern World
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Q1) In Europe the period from around 1400 to 1550 seen explicitly as a rebirth in the arts and an imitation of the classics.
A) Renaissance
B) Idealism
C) Humanism
D) Enlightenment
Q2) Incan architecture exhibited strong engineering techniques and fine masonry exemplified by this city.
A) Agra
B) Tenochtitlan
C) Machu Picchu
D) Cuzco
Q3) Perhaps the most dominant artist of the High Renaissance.
A) Raphael
B) Leonardo da Vinci
C) Michelangelo
D) Botticelli
Q4) Explain Rajput style painting.
Q5) Compare the architecture of the Pantheon with that of the Florence dome.
Q6) What is linear perspective? Provide an example in your explanation.
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Chapter 12: Artistry in an Age of Industry
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Q1) The best known work of Art Nouveau created for the Paris Universal Exposition
A) Casa Botlo
B) Crystal Palace
C) Eiffel Tower
D) Royal Pavilion
Q2) In France,this style of art created a new way of expressing reality emerging in competition with the camera.
A) Realism
B) Expressionism
C) Impressionism
D) Post Impressionism
Q3) The most famous of all Romantic ballets in which a mortal falls in love with a supernatural being.
A) The Daughter of Pharoah
B) The Revolt in the Harem
C) La Sylphide
D) Swan Lake
Q4) Discuss both an Impressionist work of music and painting.How are they similar?
Q5) Why is Goya's painting,Execution of the Citizens of Madrid,May 3 categorized as a Romantic painting?
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Chapter 13: The Arts in a Modern, Postmodern, and Pluralistic World
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Q1) The art movement that aimed at eliciting in the viewer the same feelings the artist felt in creating the work is called:
A) Futurism
B) Impressionism
C) Expressionism
D) Fauvism
Q2) Postmodern music challenges the concept of:
A) chance music
B) traditional Western concert music
C) dissonant harmonies
D) rhythmic complexity
Q3) Postmodernism disdained:
A) a skeptical viewpoint
B) concern with purity of form
C) a variety of perspectives
D) aesthetic and artistic styles
Q4) Explain the terms ethnocentrism and cultural relativism as they relate to pluralism in the arts.
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Q5) What are the dominant principles and elements of art in Picasso's Les Demoiselles of d'Avignon,1907?