Study Guide: Chapters 11-15
Questions, terms, and topics for Chapters 11-15 (WebCT Exam 1)
Chapter 11 ENLIGHTENMENT: Science and the New Learning
1. What Enlightenment landmarks have worked to shape modern Western culture?
2. How did the arts reflect the character and aims of the Enlightenment?
3. Who were the most influential figures (artists, writers, scientists) of this age?
1. Copernicus
2. geocentric/heliocentric
3. Kepler
4. Galileo
5. Francis Bacon
6. Rene Descartes
7. John Locke
8. tabula rasa
9. Thomas Hobbes
10. social contract
11. Charles Montesquieu
12. deism
13. philosophe
14. natural law
15. feminism
16. categorical imperative
17. noble savage
18. third estate
19. William Hogarth
20. Rococo
21. Chinoiserie
22. neoclassicism
23. fête galante
24. Zen
25. Japanese tea
1. nationalism
2. Code Napoleon
3. Hegelian dialectic
4. natural selection
5. evolution
6. social Darwinism
7. Faust
8. Frankenstein
9. Gothic novel
10. Promethean
11. Transcendentalism
12. metaphor
13. assonance
14. free verse
15. abolitionism
16. slave narrative
17. Harriet Beecher Stowe
18. Frederick Douglass
19. Sojourner Truth
20. Franscesco Goya
21. Theodore Gericault
22. Eugene Delacroix
23. neo-medievalism
24. virtuoso
25. prima ballerina
Chapter 13 MATERIALISM: The Industrial Era and the Urban Scene
1. In what ways did expanding Western industrialism and technology inspire the landmarks of the late nineteenth century?
2. What late nineteenth-century styles came to replace romanticism in the arts of the West?
3. Which of the landmarks of the late nineteenth century have worked to influence or shape present-day American culture?
1. materialism
2. industrialism
3. colonialism
4. imperialism
5. capitalism
6. socialism
7.
Karl
Marx
8.
proletariat
9.
communism
10. slave morality
11. Űbermensch
12. naturalism
13. the skyscraper
14. daguerreotype
15. Matthew Brady
16. Lithography
17. Edouard Manet
18. Impressionism
19. Claude Monet
20. Edgar Degas
21. Eadweard Muybridge
22. postimpressionism
23. Vincent Van Gogh
24. Paul Gauguin
25. Noa Noa
26. Georges Seraut
27. pointillism
28. Paul Cezanne
29. August Rodin
30. Isadora Duncan
31. Claude Debussy
32.
Chapter 14 MODERNISM: The Assault on Tradition
1. What radical ideas and events worked to shape the arts of the early twentieth century?
2. Which aspects of modernism most clearly reflect an assault on tradition? Which reflect a new direction in the arts? Which reflect nihilism?
3. Disjunction and experimentation are two aspects of the early twentieth century; how are these reflected in the arts of this era?
1. atomic age
2. Einstein
3. free association
4. psychoanalysis
5. id/ego/superego
6. libido
7. collective unconscious
8. total war
9. Great War of 1914
10. totalitarianism
11. Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
12. Joseph Stalin
13. National Socialist Party
14. Holocaust
15. Mao Zedong
16. Imagism
17. abstract
18. avant-garde
19. Pablo Picasso
20. collage
21. assemblage
22. Fauvism
23. Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
24. Umberto Boccioni
25. Constantin Brancusi
26. Edvard Munch
27. Marcel Duchamp
28. Salvidor Dali
29. Rene Magritte
30. Frida Kahlo
31. Frank Lloyd Wright
32. Igor Stravinsky
1. Why do we call the decades from the middle of the twentieth century to the present the “information age?” What landmarks characterize this age?
2. What are the major differences between the arts of the first half of the twentieth century and those of the last sixty years? How has technology affected these changes?
3. How have existentialism, anticolonialism and the quest for personal freedom influenced the landmarks of the last fifty years?
1. existentialism
2. antihero
3. theater of the absurd
4. Thirteenth Amendment
5. “bloody summer” of 1919
6.
7. “Letter from
8. feminism
9. suffragettes
10. Virginia Woolf
11. AIDS
12. Robert Mapelthorpe
13. ethnicity
14. genome
15. string theory
16. chaos theory
17. deconstruction
18. postmodernism
19. Kurt Vonnegut
20. Abstract Expressionism
21. action painting
22. color field painting
23. New Realism
24. Total Art
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