Art and Culture
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Course Introduction
Art and Culture explores the dynamic relationship between artistic expression and societal values across diverse historical periods and geographical regions. This course examines how visual arts, music, literature, and other creative forms both shape and reflect cultural identities, social movements, and philosophical ideas. Students will analyze major works, artistic trends, and the impact of patronage, technology, and politics on art production and reception. Through case studies, critical readings, and discussion, the course encourages an interdisciplinary approach to understanding how art interacts with the cultural context in which it is created and experienced.
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Arts and Culture An Introduction to the Humanities Combined Volume 4th Edition by Janetta Benton
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Chapter 1: The Renaissance and Mannerism
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Q1) Wealthy Florentines of the Renaissance often hired architects to create fortress-like palaces that served as emblems of their power.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) One of the first examples of what we call a "Renaissance" man was __________.
A) Raphael
B) Leonardo da Vinci
C) Michelangelo
D) Dante Alighieri
E) Francis I
Answer: B
Q3) A baptistery is a sacred structure used for celebrating the Eucharistic ceremony.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 2: The Renaissance in Northern Europe
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Q1) __________ are an examples of the secular music that became increasingly popular in the Renaissance and which are characterized by lyrics written in the vernacular.
A) Gregorian chants
B) Soliloquies
C) Madrigals
D) Mystery plays
E) both A and B
Answer: C
Q2) __________ was the most important satirical work of the Renaissance.
A) Erasmus's The Praise of Folly
B) William Shakespeare's Hamlet
C) Benvenuto Cellini's Autobiography
D) John Calvin's Institutes
E) Martin Luther's Ninety-Five Theses
Answer: A
Q3) Alla prima is painting without preparing a preliminary drawing.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 3: The Baroque Age
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Q1) __________ composed The Four Seasons.
A) Claudio Monteverdi
B) Johann Sebastian Bach
C) Arcangelo Corelli
D) Antonio Vivaldi
E) Joseph Haydn
Answer: D
Q2) Pope Paul V commissioned __________ as Vatican architect to convert Michelangelo's Greek plan into a traditional Latin-cross plan.
A) Leon Battista Alberti
B) Andrea Palladio
C) Gianlorenzo Bernini
D) Francesco Borromini
E) Carlo Maderno
Answer: E
Q3) A fugue is composed of multiple instrumental parts.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 4: The Eighteenth Century
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Q1) The National Assembly of 1789 France was made up of "The Third Estate" and their aristocratic sympathizers.
A)True
B)False
Q2) François Boucher was a favorite of the king's mistress, Madame de Pompadour.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Give an example of a work in which the choice of style, either Rococo or Neoclassical, was determined by the message that the artist, musician, or writer was trying to convey.
Q4) A symphony consists of __________ movements.
A) one
B) three
C) seven
D) eight
E) four
Q5) What is "rational humanism"? Select a work of art, a piece of music, and a text and delineate how each relates to this concept.
Q6) What do Jane Austen's novels advocate?
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Chapter 5: Romanticism and Realism
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Q1) __________ was the subject of Goya's series of eighty-two prints produced between 1810 and 1823.
A) War
B) Nature
C) Love
D) The working class
E) Dance
Q2) Gustave Flaubert wrote Madame Bovary as a comprehensive attack on Romantic sensibility.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels were two proponents of the factory system.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther is his contribution to the Sturm und Drang movement that espoused Enlightenment objectivity, rationality, and restraint.
A)True
B)False
Q5) How do Francisco Goya and Théodore Géricault compare as Romantic artists?
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Chapter 6: Impressionism and Post-Impressionism
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Q1) What do the differences between Impressionist and Post-Impressionist styles suggest about varying attitudes of the late nineteenth century?
Q2) Art nouveau favored forms derived from __________.
A) nature
B) mathematics
C) pop culture
D) astronomy
E) classical antiquity
Q3) Edgar Degas has been called a "linear Impressionist" because of his precise draftsmanship.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Describe the goals of Impressionist paintings and evaluate the success by analyzing a single work by either Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, or Mary Cassatt.
Q5) Oscar Wilde styled himself a "decadent" and flaunted his homosexuality as a challenge to the accepted code of moral behavior being promoted in his day.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 7: Chinese Civilization after the Thirteenth Century
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Q1) Under the rule of the so-called Yongle Emperor the palace enclosure where the emperor and his court lived was called the __________.
A) Imperial City
B) Forbidden City
C) Gate of Heavenly Peace
D) Gate of Supreme Harmony
E) The Garden of Imperial Delights
Q2) Due to its apt reflection of the political, religious, economic, and aesthetic element of mid-Qing elite life, The Dream of the Red Chamber is considered by some to be the most important Chinese literary text of the eighteenth century.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Summarize the primary beliefs of the Chinese and explain how these values have shaped specific works of art, music, and literature.
Q4) Wu Zhen's Bamboo could be interpreted as a symbol of survival of Chinese under foreign rule.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 8: Japanese Civilization after the Fifteenth Century
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Q1) Zazen is a form of music practiced in the rural areas of the country.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Basho Matsuo is known for his __________.
A) woodblock prints
B) Noh theater
C) musical compositions
D) landscape painting
E) haiku poetry
Q3) The fiction of modern Japan reflects a strong concern with __________.
A) achievement
B) religion
C) cultural and individual identity
D) ancient tales
E) philosophy
Q4) What are the differences between Noh and Kabuki?
Q5) The Tokugawa shogunate unified the country of Japan and isolated it from outside world.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 9: Modern Africa and Latin America
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Q1) What is the role of African music, and what is its most distinctive feature?
Q2) Solomon Linda, the Zulu musician who wrote Mbube (The Lion Sleeps Tonight), sold the rights in 1952 for one million dollars.
A)True
B)False
Q3) With what are the most prevalent forms of popular music in Latin America associated?
Q4) Delineate the elements of magic realism in the literature of Latin America and provide an example of its use.
Q5) The gelede masking tradition comes from the Baule of the Ivory Coast.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Mexico's president Alvaro Obregón initiate __________ in 1920 to restore Mexico's indigenous cultural identity.
A) an indigenous music movement
B) a mural movement
C) a literary movement
D) an oral history movement
E) a series of festivals
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Chapter 10: Early Twentieth Century
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Q1) Analyze at least three works to determine how did the goals of modern abstract painters differ from those of the American Regionalist painters.?
Q2) The stories of __________ explore ideas from Christianity that transcend the confines of Southern Regionalism.
A) William Faulkner
B) Flannery O'Connor
C) Ernest Hemingway
D) T.S. Eliot
E) Franz Kafka
Q3) The goal of such Russian artists as Kasimir Malevich and El Lissitzky was to bring art to the masses; thus, these artists saw their art as a political tool.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Martha Graham was a pioneer of American Modernist dance.
A)True
B)False
Q5) How did World War I shape the arts of Europe from 1914-1940?
Q6) What did the Fauves believe about color?
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Chapter 11: Mid-Twentieth Century and Later
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Q1) How do Jean-Paul Sartre's, Simone de Beauvoir's and Søren Kierkegaard's philosophical views of Existentialism differ?
Q2) What elements of society did the Beat generation of writers critique? Give an example of a Beat work.
Q3) The painter __________ worked in a style known as "color field painting."
A) Mark Rothko
B) William de Kooning
C) Roy Lichtenstein
D) Jackson Pollock
E) Lee Krasner
Q4) Compare Jackson Pollock's Autumn Rhythm: Number 30 and Helen Frankenthaler's Mauve District to explain what unified the diverse works of the Abstract Expressionists.
Q5) Marisol Escobar's work is created in the Minimalist style.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Explain the importance of coffee to a variety of world cultures.
Q7) Mark Rothko was an Abstract Expressionist artist.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 12: Diversity in Contemporary Life
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Q1) Arguably, __________ has had the greatest impact on the public's opinion of women in the arts.
A) Marisol
B) Eleanor Antin
C) Betye Saar
D) Cindy Sherman
E) Judy Chicago
Q2) In Charles the First Jean-Michel Basquiat pays homage to __________.
A) Charlie Parker
B) Charles DeGaulle
C) Prince Charles
D) Charles I of England
E) Charles Kuralt
Q3) Name the three catalysts for change that occurred during the 1960s and 1970s.
Q4) __________ is the chief practitioner of Poststructuralism.
A) Roland Barthes
B) Jacques Derrida
C) Søren Kierkegaard
D) Jean-Paul Sartre
E) Simone de Beauvoir
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