Humanities Study Guide

WebCT Exam 3: Chapters 11-15

Instructions

Use this study guide in conjunction with class readings and discussions.

While it is suggested that students use the study guide to prepare for exams, the study guide will NOT be given a grade.

Key Questions

Consider the key questions for each chapter. Review how these questions were applied in-class discussions and readings.

Key Terms

Review each key term, and, if possible, define the term. Also, list and identify examples and/or characteristics that illustrate the term.

Some of these terms are broad (cover several pages of material). You will not help yourself on the exam by creating a broad definition.

To benefit from the study guide, review the details discussed in class.

*As stated in your syllabus, any material covered in class or in assigned readings is subject to be included in exams.

However, Exam 3 will consist predominantly of questions based upon the following topics.

Chapter 11- Enlightenment:  Science and the New Learning

Key Questions

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?

Key Terms

Nicholas Copernicus

Galileo

John Locke
Mary Wollstonecraft

Immanuel Kant

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
French Revolution
slave narratives
Satire
Rococo

Chapter 12 - Romanticism:  Nature, Passion, and the Sublime

Key Questions

1. What is “romanticism” as an aesthetic style, a movement and an attitude of mind? Is romanticism a uniquely Western phenomenon?

2. Which landmarks of the nineteenth century typify the romantic sensibility? Are any of these landmarks associated with European nationalism?

3. What romantic landmarks have served to glorify the self as hero and visionary?

Key Terms

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Charles Darwin

Faust
Frankenstein

Transcendentalism

Abolitionist literature
Francisco Goya
Eugène Delacroix

Beethoven
the Romantic Ballet

Chapter 13 - Materialism:  The Industrial Era and the Urban Scene

Key Questions

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?

Key Terms

Industrialism

Colonialism

Frederich Nietzsche

Realism

the skyscraper

photography

Impressionism

Postimpressionism

Isadora Duncan

Oceania

Chapter 14 - Modernism:  The Assault on Tradition

Key Questions

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?

Key Terms

Sigmund Freud

Mao Zedong

Cubism

Futurism
Expressionism

Dadaism
Surrealism
modern architecture
Igor Stravinsky
Modern Dance

Chapter 15 - Globalism:  The Information Age

Key Questions

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?

Key Terms

existentialism

Theater of the Absurd
the quest for equality
postmodernsim
Abstract Expressionism

Pop Art
New Realism
Total Art
Jazz
Tiananmen Square