Ch14 Is It Art or Something Like It

Chapter 14: Is It Art or Something Like It? Select the letter of the choice that BEST answers the question: 1. Which of the following refers to contemporary works enjoyed by the masses? a. craftworks b. popular art c. kitsch d. propaganda Answer: b Page: 389 2. Which of the following evoke disgust at worst and stock emotions at best? a. propaganda b. kitsch c. craftworks d. decoration Answer: b Page: 395 3. Something added to enhance something else is a. propaganda b. kitsch c. craftworks d. decoration Answer: d Page: 396 4. The authors consider Estes’s Baby Doll Lounge a. an illustration b. folk art c. a work of art d. a bad photograph Answer: c Page: 391 5. Duchamp’s art differed from other Dadaists in its a. attack on civilization b. anti-art and anti-establishment content c. shock value d. use of chance Answer: b Page: 402 6. Which of the following is a type of idea art? a. conceptual art b. folk art c. performance art d. shock art Answer: a Page: 399 7. The mission of Dada was to a. make works that were not art b. question God c. make decorations d. create form-content Answer: a Page: 400 8. Conceptual art sought to a. glorify the material object b. separate the audience from the creative concepts of the artist c. create highly tactile works of art d. use as little material as possible Answer: d Page: 403 9. Which of the following performance artists offered ATM Piece? a. Barbara Smith b. Taylor Woodrow c. Terry Atkinson d. William Pope.L Answer: d Page: 407 10. Which of the artlike is most realistically illustrative? a. propaganda b. popular art c. folk art d. advertisements Answer: a Page: 393 11. Performance art differs from traditional drama in that it a. requires a stage-in-the-round b. avoids anti-establishment social and political views c. sometimes has no narrative at all d. lacks physicality Answer: c Page: 405 12. According to the text, who is probably the most popular and beloved American painter? a. Norman Rockwell b. Andrew Wyeth c. Grandma Moses d. Andy Warhol Answer: b Page: 392 13. Shock art artists are a. Marcel Duchamp and Francis Picabia b. Paul McCarthy and Andres Serrano c. Morton Schamberg and Keith Arnatt d. Hugo Ball and Salvador Dali Answer: b Page: 407 14. Virtual art is based on a. computer technology b. political views c. fabricated materials d. decoration Answer: a Page: 408 Essay Question 1. Discuss the effectiveness of Alexei Vasilev’s They Are Writing about Us in Pravda as propaganda art. What detail makes it so? How? 2. Now discuss images that may qualify as propaganda related to the war in Iraq of 2003. Describe them in detail and indicate how they might qualify as artlike propaganda.