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CHAPTER 26
Dada, Surrealism, Fantasy,
and the United States between the Wars
Multiple-Choice Questions
1. “The Wars” in the title of this chapter refer to
a. World War II and the Vietnam War.
b. the Spanish Civil War and World War II.
c. World War I and World War II.
d. the Spanish Civil War and the Vietnam War.
Answer: c
2. “The lost generation” was a phrase coined by
a. Ernest Hemingway.
b. F. Scott Fitzgerald.
c. Zelda Fitzgerald.
d. Gertrude Stein.
e. Frank Lloyd Wright.
Answer: d
3. The Cabaret Voltaire was located in
a. Zurich.
b. Paris.
c. Avignon.
d. Madrid.
e. Utrecht.
Answer: a
4. Who of the following was NOT a Dadaist?
a. Arp
b. Man Ray
c. Duchamp
d. Pelton
e. Höch
Answer: d
5. L.H.O.O.Q. is an example of a
a. collage.
b. Ready-Made.
c. graffiti poster.
d. Ready-Made-Aided.
e. found object.
Answer: d
6. Duchamp coined “Ready-Made”
a. while exhibiting a urinal.
b. after purchasing a shovel.
c. inspired by tubes of artist’s paint.
d. while fighting during WWI.
e. while viewing a cracked mirror.
Answer: b
7. Which is LEAST characteristic of Dada?
a. nonsense
b. nihilism
c. punning
d. Classicism
e. iconoclasm
Answer: d
8. Who started the quarterly journal Camera Work?
a. Lange
b. Van Der Zee
c. Stieglitz
d. Evans
e. Pippin
Answer: c
9. Which is true of the Rayograph?
a. It is a black and white photograph made with a camera.
b. It is a black and white photograph made without a camera.
c. It is a black and white collage.
d. It is the name of a painting by Man Ray.
Answer: b
10. “Violon d’Ingres” is a French expression
a. referring to a painting by Ingres.
b. that is the title of a painting by Man Ray.
c. meaning “hobby.”
d. meaning “modern odalisque.”
Answer: c
11. Which of the following correctly matches artist with country of birth?
a. Klee – Germany
b. Ernst – Holland
c. O’Keeffe – Ireland
d. Lawrence – England
e. Magritte – Belgium
Answer: e
12. Which is NOT a Surrealist element in Miró’s Dog Barking at the Moon?
a. the colors of the ladder
b. the colors of the dog
c. the placement of the dog
d. the space occupied by the ladder
Answer: c
13. Who of the following is NOT a Surrealist?
a. Salvador Dalí
b. Giorgio de Chirico
c. René Magritte
d. Georges Braque
Answer: d
14. Who defined “Surrealist” as “pure psychic automatism by which it is intended to express, either verbally or in writing, the true function of thought. Thought dictated in the absence of all control exerted by reason, and outside all aesthetic or moral preoccupations”?
a. André Breton
b. Gustave Caillebotte
c. Gustave Moreau
d. Sigmund Freud
Answer: a
15. Surrealists
a. used titles that were intentionally provocative.
b. felt dreams were another level of reality.
c. embraced Jungian symbolism.
d. All these answers are correct.
Answer: d
16. Dalí’s “paranoiac-critical” method
a. showed inner truth.
b. showed inner irrationality as reflected in dreams.
c. showed the cruel reality of the world as it was.
d. showed both inner truth and inner irrationality as reflected in dreams.
Answer: d
17. Simultaneous viewpoint is an element of
a. Cubism and Surrealism.
b. Surrealism and Futurism.
c. Cubism and Pointillism.
d. Dada and Futurism.
Answer: a
18. The so-called veristic Surrealism of Magritte means that
a. his forms are imaginary.
b. his forms are clear and realistic but their combinations are surreal.
c. his forms are surreal and fantastic.
d. his arrangements make manifest sense but latent nonsense.
Answer: b
19. The Surrealist artist who envisioned himself as a shaman was
a. Magritte.
b. Klee.
c. Miró.
d. Ernst.
e. Giacometti.
Answer: d
20. A Kachina is a Hopi
a. toy.
b. painting.
c. spirit.
d. mask.
e. house.
Answer: c
21. Pueblos are
a. communal living quarters.
b. rock-cut houses.
c. Hopi temples.
d. Hopi tombs.
Answer: a
22. Which of the following does NOT correctly match artist with work?
a. Ernst – The King Playing with the Queen
b. Lange – Two Shells
c. Giacometti – Large Standing Woman III
d. Stieglitz – Equivalent
e. Magritte – The False Mirror
Answer: b
23. Who of the following was most interested in “found objects”?
a. O’Keeffe
b. Van der Zee
c. de Chirico
d. Moore
e. Giacometti
Answer: d
24. Which most accurately describes a mobile?
a. It moves when its motor is activated.
b. It hangs on a wall.
c. It hangs from the ceiling.
d. It moves when there is an air current.
e. It hangs from the ceiling and moves when there is an air current.
Answer: e
25. American Gothic is an example of
a. Gothic Revival.
b. Romanticism.
c. Social Realism.
d. Regionalism.
e. photography.
Answer: d
26. Which work inspired the CBS logo?
a. Le Violon d’Ingres
b. The False Mirror
c. Helmet Head No.1
d. Fog Horns
e. Goin’ Fishin’
Answer: b
27. The “underground railroad” was
a. a subway line in New Orleans.
b. an escape route for Civil War spies.
c. an escape route for slaves.
d. a tunnel planned for the English Channel.
Answer: c
28. FSA stands for
a. Foreign Socialist Association.
b. Farmers’ Socialist Administration.
c. Farm Security Administration.
d. Freed Slaves of America.
Answer: c
29. ________ photographed the rural poor during the Great Depression.
a. Alfred Stieglitz
b. Buckminster Fuller
c. Matthew Brady
d. Dorothea Lange
Answer: d
30. Which is NOT a feature of Rivera’s History of Mexico fresco murals?
a. Cubism
b. non-representational forms
c. Leftist politics
d. references to Mesoamerican history
e. Surrealism
Answer: b
31. Rivera’s wife, also a painter, was
a. Georgia O’Keeffe.
b. Agnes Pelton.
c. Dorothea Lange.
d. Frida Kahlo.
Answer: d
32. Frida Kahlo painted
a. her own life.
b. her subjective reality as wife of a great Mexican muralist.
c. symbols of her existential pain.
d. All these answers are correct.
Answer: d
33. The 291 was
a. the address of the Seventh Regiment Armory.
b. the address of the Museum of Modern Art.
c. an avant-garde art gallery in New York.
d. Gertrude Stein’s apartment number in Paris.
e. a groundbreaking issue of Camera Work.
Answer: c
34. Which is NOT an element of Dove’s Goin’ Fishin’?
a. denim
b. bamboo
c. bark
d. buttons
Answer: d
35. Which is NOT a subject of American folk art?
a. pinball machines
b. cigar-store Indians
c. carved gravestones
d. shop signs
e. weather vanes
Answer: a
36. Which is NOT a feature of Grandma Moses’ The Old Checkered House?
a. the influence of embroidery
b. references to industrialization
c. Romanticism
d. local imagery
Answer: b
Key Works
Marcel Duchamp, replica of L.H.O.O.Q., from “Boîte-en-Valise,” Paris, 1919
Marcel Duchamp, Fountain (Urinal), 1917
Marcel Duchamp, To Be Looked At (from the Other Side of the Glass) with One Eye, Close to, for Almost an Hour, 1918
Jean (Hans) Arp, Collage Arranged According to the Laws to Chance, 1916–1917
Jean (Hans) Arp, The Dancer, 1928
Hannah H?ch, Cut with the Kitchen Knife through Germany’s Last Weimar Beer-Belly Cultural Epoch, 1920
Man Ray, Indestructible Object (or Object to be Destroyed), 1964, replica of the original of 1923
Giorgio de Chirico, Place d’Italie, 1912
Man Ray, Le Violon d’Ingres, 1924
Paul Klee, Mask of Fear, 1932
Zuni war god from Arizona or New Mexico, before 1880
Salvador Dalí, The Persistence of Memory, 1931
Joan Miró, Dog Barking at the Moon, 1926
Joan Miró, Spanish Dancer, 1945
René Magritte, The False Mirror, 1928
René Magritte, Time Transfixed (La Durée poignardée), 1938
Max Ernst, The King Playing with the Queen, 1944
Mossi whistle, Upper Volta
Max Ernst with his Kachina doll collection, 1942, Photograph by James Thrall Soby
Alberto Giacometti, Large Standing Woman III, 1960, and Piet Mondrian, Composition with Red, Yellow, and Blue, 1935–1942
Henry Moore, Reclining Figure, 1957–1958
Henry Moore, Helmet Head No. 1, 1950
Alexander Calder, Big Red, 1959
Alexander Calder, Le Hallebardier, 1971
Grant Wood, American Gothic, 1930
Jacob Lawrence, Harriet Tubman Series, No. 7, 1939–1940
Edward Hopper, Gas, 1940
James van der Zee, Portrait of Couple, Man with Walking Stick, 1929
Walker Evans, Shoeshine Sign in a Southern Town, 1936
Dorothea Lange, Migratory Cotton Picker, Eloy, Arizona, 1940
Anna Mary Robertson (Grandma) Moses, The Old Checkered House, 1944
Horace Pippin, Domino Players, 1943
Diego Rivera, Ancient Mexico, from the History of Mexico fresco murals, 1929–1935
Frida Kahlo, Thinking about Death, 1943
Alfred Stieglitz, Equivalent, 1923
Edward Weston, Two Shells, 1927
Arthur Dove, Goin’ Fishin’, 1925
Arthur Dove, Fog Horns, 1929
Georgia O’Keeffe, Black and White, 1930
Georgia O’Keeffe, Cow’s Skull with Calico Roses, 1931
Agnes Pelton, The Fountains, 1926
Key Terms
beaverboard
casein
conceptual art
found object
frottage
mobile
Rayograph
stabile
Window on the World
Hopi Kachinas
Key Works
Ansel Adams, Winnowing Grain, Taos Pueblo, c. 1929
Black Ogre, Hopi Kachina
Butterfly Maiden, Hopi Kachina
Natuvika kachina, Hopi
Maps, Diagrams, and Projections
Diagram of a typical pueblo adobe unit, American Southwest
