Cultural Studies
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Course Introduction
Cultural Studies is an interdisciplinary field that examines how culture encompassing beliefs, practices, artifacts, and institutions shapes and is shaped by social, political, and historical contexts. The course explores the ways culture influences identity, power dynamics, and everyday life, drawing on theories from sociology, anthropology, media studies, and literary analysis. Students engage in critical discussions about topics such as globalization, gender, race, class, popular culture, and resistance, learning to analyze cultural phenomena and texts within broader societal frameworks. The course encourages critical thinking, cultural awareness, and an understanding of how cultural production both reflects and affects social change.
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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) Petrarch's Canzoniere (Songbook) contains 366 poems: sonnets, ballads, sestinas, madrigals, and canzoni.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) "Lorenzo the Magnificent" was a member of the Medici family of Florence.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) __________ wrote the Book of the Courtier.
A) Petrarch
B) Benvenuto Cellini
C) Niccolò Macchiavelli
D) Baldassare Castiglione
E) Vittoria da Colonna
Answer: D
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Chapter 2: The Renaissance in Northern Europe
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Q1) Robert Campin's Mérode Altarpiece is the earliest example in which the Annunciation was depicted as taking place in a __________.
A) home
B) church
C) holy realm
D) stable
E) outhouse
Answer: A
Q2) Alla prima is painting without preparing a preliminary drawing.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) A madrigal is a vocal composition for a small group of singers, usually without accompaniment.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 3: The Baroque Age
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Q1) In the Calling of St.Matthew , Caravaggio creates a religious atmosphere by his dramatic use of light, known as __________.
A) tenebrism
B) pointillism
C) verisimilitude
D) chiaroscuro
E) sfumato
Answer: A
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
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Chapter 4: The Eighteenth Century
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Q1) Angelica Kauffmann's Cornelia Pointing to Her Children as Her Treasures is a model of Rococo style and technique.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Adam Smith was an ardent opponent of the Industrial Revolution.
A)True
B)False
Q3) __________ aptly captures the spirit of London's Grub Street.
A) Voltaire's Candide
B) Pope's Dunciad
C) Paine's Age of Reason
D) Austen's Pride and Prejudice
E) Swift's Gulliver's Travels
Q4) François Boucher was a favorite of the king's mistress, Madame de Pompadour.
A)True
B)False
Q5) 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.
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Q6) How does the Neoclassical garden compare to the gardens of the Baroque era?
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Chapter 5: Romanticism and Realism
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Q1) How did Americans view of the landscape translate into the establishment of the national park system during the nineteenth-century?
Q2) Ralph Waldo Emerson called himself a(n) __________.
A) Realist
B) Renaissance man
C) Transcendentalist
D) Impressionist
E) Neoclassicist
Q3) The novel __________ by Robert Louis Stevenson embodies the conflict between the classical mind and the new Romantic mind.
A) Walden
B) Moby Dick
C) Treasure Island
D) The Scarlet Letter
E) Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Q4) Why does London's Houses of Parliament use a style based on that of the Gothic period (that is, why was this style considered appropriate for a government building)?
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) Art nouveau favored forms derived from __________.
A) nature
B) mathematics
C) pop culture
D) astronomy
E) classical antiquity
Q2) The Post-Impressionist artist Paul Gauguin left his wife and five children and moved to Tahiti.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Pierre-Auguste Renoir attempted to uncover the social inequities of late nineteenth-century Paris.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What "improvements" to Impressionism are seen in either George Seurat's A Sunday Afternoon on La Grande Jatte or Paul Gauguin's Manao Tupapau ?
Q5) The favorite subjects of Paul Cézanne were still life and landscape.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 7: Chinese Civilization after the Thirteenth Century
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Q1) What is the significance of the subject matter of Wu Zhen's Bamboo ?
Q2) Zhu Da was from an impoverished family and focused on the representation of humans in his works.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Discuss the impact of the arrival of Jesuit Catholic missionaries, such as Matteo Ricci, into China during the Qing dynasty.
Q4) The Chinese often considered __________ the highest form of art.
A) poetry
B) prose
C) landscape painting
D) portraits
E) calligraphy
Q5) The calligraphy at the upper left of Shen Zhou's Poet on a Moutaintop is a __________.
A) poem
B) prayer
C) song
D) signature
E) novella
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Chapter 8: Japanese Civilization after the Fifteenth Century
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Q1) Using a work of art, examine the forms and ideas behind landscape painting during the Muromachi period.
Q2) The establishment of classes during Edo period was influenced by Confucianism.
A)True
B)False
Q3) A geisha in training is called a maika.
A)True
B)False
Q4) How did Confucianism impact the organization of society during the Edo period?
Q5) Kabuki theater emerged in the __________ century.
A) fourteenth
B) fifteenth
C) sixteenth
D) seventeenth
E) nineteenth
Q6) What is koto music, how did it develop, and what is its importance in Japan?
Essay
Q7) Describe the tenets and major aspects of the religion of Shinto.
Q8) What happened after 1600 in terms of literature?
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Chapter 9: Modern Africa and Latin America
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Q1) The "red rubber scandal" was exposed by Brazilians in the 1950s.
A)True
B)False
Q2) What is the role of African music, and what is its most distinctive feature?
Q3) Isabel Allende's novel The House of Spirits (1982) creates a fictional world that reconstructs the history of __________.
A) Chile
B) Brazil
C) Peru
D) Argentina
E) Paraguay
Q4) Fernando Botero is a Columbian artist whose figures look "swollen" and satirize the Latin American elite.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Delineate the elements of magic realism in the literature of Latin America and provide an example of its use.
Q6) What two separate cultural and economic traditions make up Latin America?
Q7) Describe the impetus for the Mexican mural movement.
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Chapter 10: Early Twentieth Century
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Q1) Why did Marcel Duchamp use puns in many of his works?
Q2) What does the term avant garde refer to in terms of art, music, or literature of the early twentieth-century? List three to five of the avant garde movements of the late nineteenth and early twentieth-centuries.
Q3) Cubism was a movement that emphasized creating the illusion of reality by representing an object from a single vantage point.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Dorothea Lange created photographs that were semi-abstract and unconcerned with the effects of the Depression.
A)True
B)False
Q5) List the notable features of Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon .In what way is it similar to Stravinsky's Rite of Spring?
Q6) Examine the role of music in defining "the distinct character of America's regions [...]" Essay
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Chapter 11: Mid-Twentieth Century and Later
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Q1) Explain the importance of coffee to a variety of world cultures.
Q2) All of the following are architects of the International Style except __________.
A) Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
B) Le Corbusier
C) Walter Gropius
D) Frank Lloyd Wright
E) Louis Sullivan
Q3) How do Jean-Paul Sartre's, Simone de Beauvoir's and Søren Kierkegaard's philosophical views of Existentialism differ?
Q4) Robert Rauschenberg's Odalisk is a painting that depicts a woman in a Turkish harem.
A)True B)False
Q5) What elements of society did the Beat generation of writers critique? Give an example of a Beat work.
Q6) Marisol Escobar's work is created in the Minimalist style.
A)True B)False
Q7) Describe the variety of musical forms that were popularized after World War II.
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Chapter 12: Diversity in Contemporary Life
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Q1) Vaclav Havel was the first president of the post-Soviet Czech Republic.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The Great Wall of Los Angeles was begun in 1982.
A)True
B)False
Q3) List the key differences between western and non-western art as delineated by Benton and DiYanni.
Essay
Q4) Explore the participation of recognition of female artists in the past twenty years in the United States.
Q5) __________ is the chief practitioner of Poststructuralism.
A) Roland Barthes
B) Jacques Derrida
C) Søren Kierkegaard
D) Jean-Paul Sartre
E) Simone de Beauvoir
Q6) What are the four identities that Andreas Huyssen demarcated?
Q7) List as many aspects of Postmodernism as possible.
Q8) What is "Semiotics"?
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