Visual Culture: 14th Century to Present
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Course Introduction
This course explores the evolution of visual culture from the 14th century to the present, examining how art, imagery, and visual media have reflected and shaped societal values, identities, and power structures throughout history. Students will analyze key movements, artworks, and technological advances from early Renaissance painting and printmaking to contemporary digital media within their historical, social, and political contexts. By engaging with painting, sculpture, photography, film, advertising, and digital platforms, learners will gain an understanding of the ways visual culture mediates experience and meanings in different cultures and epochs, and develop critical skills for interpreting images and visual phenomena in the modern world.
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Art History 5th Edition Volume 2 by Marilyn Stokstad
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Chapter 1: Fourtheenth-Century Art in Europe
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Q1) The term __________ describes the private devotional books that contained special prayers to be recited at specific times of the day.
A) Book of Hours
B) Psalters
C) Gospels
D) Moralized Bibles
Answer: A
Q2) The city council of Siena commissioned__________ to fresco the city hall with scenes of good and bad government.
A) Ambrogio Lorenzetti
B) Duccio
C) Giotto
D) Cimabue
Answer: A
Q3) Who was Christine de Pizan? In what ways did she contribute to her profession and to her era?
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Q4) How did the Holy Roman Empire change during the fourteenth century?
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Chapter 2: Fifteenth-century Art in Northern Europe
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Q1) Characterized by slender figures and miniature landscape settings the _____________ became the prevailing manner of late fourteenth-century Europe.
A) International Gothic style
B) linear perspective
C) noble
D) Flemish school
Answer: A
Q2) How does Rogier van der Weyden's use of space heighten the emotional impact of his Deposition altarpiece ?
A) The use of deep illusionistic space makes the scene seem more realistic.
B) The full-sized figures seem to press forward into the viewer's space.
C) He used multiple perspectives so viewers could see all the figures.
D) His use of atmospheric perspective draws the viewer into the image.
Answer: B
Q3) Consider changes in the practice of manuscript illumination from the late fourteenth century into the fifteenth century.Include artists,their work,their style,the medium employed,and the role of patronage in your discussion.
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Chapter 3: Renaissance art in fifteenth-century Italy
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Q1) Reflecting its donor,the subject of Andrea Mantegna's murals in the Camera Picta of the Ducal Palace is _____________.
A) poetic allegories of moral virtues
B) trompe l'oeil
C) the return of Ludovico Gonzaga's son
D) themes of romantic love
Answer: C
Q2) __________ stone blocks,that is,stone blocks whose surfaces are intentionally left rough,characterize the exterior of the Palazzo Medici-Riccardi in Florence.
A) Dressed
B) Rusticated
C) Pilaster
D) Mullion
Answer: B
Q3) Identify a specific commission that drew artists to Rome in the fifteenth century.Name an artist that was part of this commission and describe his contribution to the project.
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Chapter 4: Sixteenth-century art in Italy
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Q1) Cellini's fanciful ____________made for King Francis I demonstrates how Mannerist practices in painting were transferred into exquisite sculptures.
A) apple
B) saltcellar
C) facade
D) engraving
Q2) Why did Raphael change his painting style?
Q3) What subject matter was popular among Mannerist painters of the mid sixteenth century?
A) portraits
B) religious imagery
C) classical and allegorical themes
D) all of the above
Q4) Why is Bronzino's Allegory with Venus and Cupid typical of Mannerism?
Q5) Cellini made his most famous work in the French court at __________.
A) Fontainebleau
B) Avignon
C) Nice
D) Paris
Q6) Who were the main figures in the Venetian Renaissance?
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Chapter 5: sixteenth-century art in northern Europe and the Iberian peninsula
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Q1) How did Bruegel's travels impact his art?
Q2) What motivated the building of many lavish country residences in England during the sixteenth century?
A) the mobile nature of the Tudor court
B) newly created aristocrats wanting to display their wealth and status
C) the growth of England's middle class who had prospered from commercial trade
D) the political and economic stability brought on by the Tudor dynasty
Q3) How were sixteenth-century women in England involved in the arts?
Q4) The work of ________________in the sixteenth century continued the German tradition of medieval mysticism and emotional spirituality to create extraordinarily moving paintings.
A) Stoss
B) Riemenschneider
C) Grünewald
D) Fontana
Q5) How did Dürer use printmaking to extend his reputation?
Q6) What features characterize early sixteenth-century German sculpture?
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Q7) What was the Krug Family's contribution to metalwork?
Q9) What are the main features of Elizabethan houses?
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Chapter 6: Seventeenth-Century art in Europe
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Q1) Renewed interest in __________ provided the funds necessary to expand the façade of the Cathedral of St.James,Santiago de Compostela .
A) pilgrimages
B) wealth
C) Madrid
D) dueling
Q2) Rubens was known for __________________.
A) his large studio with assistants who specialized in particular details
B) his humble demeanor and private working habits
C) his extensive financial problems that resulted in his dying penniless and alone
D) emphasis on linear clarity in drawing
Q3) Which Italian artist became known in the Netherlands because of the influence he had on the Dutch painter Hendrick ter Brugghen?
A) Annibale Carracci
B) Bernini
C) Gaulli
D) Caravaggio
Q4) How did Vermeer make his paintings?
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Chapter 7: art of south and southeast Asia after 1200
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Q1) Works created by ____________demonstrates the influence of Mughal painting style on later Indian painters.
A) Rajput painters
B) the Kangra School
C) artists in the court of Akbar
D) none of the above
Q2) In Bharat Mata ,artist Abanindranath Tagore invents a nationalistic icon using what visual symbols?
A) Hindu
B) Buddhist
C) Christian
D) Daoist
Q3) Which object could best be described as a nationalist statement of Indian identity?
A) The Taj Mahal
B) George Wittet, Gateway of India
C) Abanindranath Tagore, Bharat Mata (Mother India)
D) Temple of the Emerald Buddha
Q4) Explain Rajput painting.Using a specific example,address the topics of patronage,subject matter,and style.
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Chapter 8: Chinese and Korean art after 1279
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Q1) Shitao's Landscape is characteristic of the highly personal approach of ___________painters in the Qing dynasty.
A) individualist
B) literati
C) court
D) priest
Q2) In the principle of the __________,a projecting element of one piece fits so snugly and smoothly into a cavity of another piece that no glue or nails are needed.
A) post and lintel
B) groin vaulting
C) wood block
D) mortise-and-tenon joint
Q3) What feature distinguishes Korean porcelains from those of the Ming dynasty in China?
A) asymmetrical designs reflecting a taste for unornamented space
B) the use of iron-brown underglazing
C) vessels with bulging shoulders, slender bases and short, vertical necks
D) all of the above
Q4) What is the derivation of the word "porcelain"?
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Chapter 9: Japanese art after 1333
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Q1) The Tea Bowl,called Yugure ("Twilight"),is attributed to Chojiro,thought to be the founder of what type of pottery?
A) raku
B) Mount Fuji
C) crackle glaze
D) Hokusai
Q2) Several forms of visual art flourished during the Muromachi period,but __________ reigned supreme.
A) sculpture
B) engraving
C) oil painting
D) ink painting
Q3) _________ are woven straw mats,used in Japanese homes,generally as floor coverings.
A) Fusuma
B) Tatami
C) Raku
D) Shoin
Q4) What is "borrowed scenery"? Give an example.
Q5) Who are daimyo?
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Chapter 10: Art of the Americas after 1300
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Q1) __________ explorers first arrived in the Americas in 1519.
A) Japanese
B) African
C) European
D) Chinese
Q2) How does the National Museum of the American Indian convey Native American ideals in its design?
A) The entrance on the east side is similar to prairie tipis.
B) The surrounding landscape symbolizes the Native relationship to the environment.
C) A stained glass Sun Marker creates a dagger of light in the atrium.
D) All of the above.
Q3) The term Inca refers to both the ruler and to the __________.
A) feathers
B) communication
C) roads
D) people
Q4) How did the Aztecs use feathers?
Q5) How do we know about the ceremonial complexes of the Aztecs?
Q6) What is the Hamatsa?
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Chapter 11: art of pacific cultures
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Q1) Known for their seafaring skills and construction of fine canoes,the people of Micronesia produced functional wapepe,or ____________,which also have an aesthetic impact.
A) navigational maps
B) baskets
C) woodwork
D) textiles
Q2) The moai Rapa Nui have parallel lines on their ears suggesting __________.
A) religious worship
B) ear ornaments
C) human sacrifice
D) class structure
Q3) What element of tattooing is most sacred to people of the Marquesas islands?
A) the symbolism of the designs and patterns
B) the process of shedding blood
C) the display of status and wealth
D) the ceremony involved upon the completion of the tattoo
Q4) How did missionaries play a role in the production of fiber arts?
Q5) What is the malangan?
Q6) What are the four geographic areas of Oceania?
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Chapter 12: art of Africa in the modern era
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Q1) Africans make figures emphasizing health and well-being to encourage the birth and growth of __________.
A) children
B) crops
C) herds
D) buildings
Q2) The Kuba people produce elaborate and sophisticated arts tied to __________.
A) kinship
B) shamanism
C) leadership
D) divination
Q3) How did the Nkanu peoples confront colonial domination through art?
Q4) Olowe of Ise was a highly regarded __________ woodcarver.
A) Yoruba
B) Dama
C) Bwa
D) Baule
Q5) What rites of passage are commemorated in African art?
Q6) What are some of the foundations of African culture?
Q7) How does art in Africa relate to the world of ancestors and other spirits?
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Chapter 13: Eighteenth- and early-nineteenth century art in
Europe and NORTH America
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Q1) In England,__________ played a significant role in the production of silver during the Georgian period.
A) aristocrats
B) slaves
C) women
D) Josiah Wedgewood
Q2) What impact did the French Revolution have on art?
Q3) Rococo ended because of Enlightenment ideas,the rising popularity of the __________ style,and imminent revolution.
A) Gothic
B) Realist
C) Neoclassical
D) Grand Tour
Q4) Wedgwood asked the sculptor Hackwood to design an emblem for the British Committee to abolish the __________ .
A) Romantic movement
B) Industrial Revolution
C) French Revolution
D) slave trade
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Chapter 14: mid-to late nineteenth-century art in Europe and the united
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Q1) Julia Margaret Cameron was a creative early proponent of portrait __________.
A) lithography
B) photography
C) painting
D) sketches
Q2) Rossetti was one of the leaders of the __________ Brotherhood.
A) Romantic
B) Pre-Raphaelite
C) Impressionist
D) Symbolist
Q3) What impact did the suppression of the Paris Commune have on art after 1871?
A) There was a resurgence in political art.
B) Artists turned to lithography and other printed formats for social critique.
C) Overt political commentary diminished in the art of the avant-garde.
D) Avant-garde artists produce politically charged work anonymously and under pseudonyms.
Q4) Who was Camille Claudel?
Q5) What is repoussoir and how did Cézanne use it?
Q6) What is Japonisme?
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1900-1950
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Q1) Picasso became of the first artists to appropriate _____________ art.
A) Paleolithic
B) Native American
C) medieval
D) African
Q2) __________ means "wild beast" and was the name of an art movement that included Henri Matisse.
A) Die Brücke
B) Fauvism
C) Dada
D) Orphism
Q3) The politically charged expressionism of Käthe Kollwitz can be most closely aligned with the artists of which modern movement?
A) The Bridge
B) Dada
C) Regionalism
D) none of the above
Q4) What are the different kinds of Surrealism?
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Q5) How did Federal patronage for American art function during the Depression?
Q6) How did the Suprematists combine Cubist picture space with complete abstraction?
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Chapter 16: The international scene since 1950
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Q1) Critics of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial were especially outraged by the use of ____________.
A) the color black
B) the setting
C) the minimalist treatment
D) the listing of names
Q2) Which controversial work of art resulted in its removal from its original location?
A) Andres Serrano's Piss Christ
B) Richard Serra's Tilted Arc
C) Chris Ofili's The Holy Virgin Mary
D) Damien Hirst's Mother and Child Divided
Q3) Mendieta's Tree of Life celebrates the notion that women ___________.
A) have a deeper identification with nature than men
B) reproduce life
C) are more intellectual than men
D) have great physical strength
Q4) How did Feminists impact the art world?
Q5) What are the main trends in Post-war photography?
Q6) What is Postmodern art?
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