Chapter 32

1.  The separate, discontinuous bundles of atomic particles that make up light are called _______.

2.  The style of poetry written by the _______ used free verse and abrupt juxtapositions of leanly expressed verbal images.

3.  The Italian art movement called _______ demanded that art be based upon industry, technology, and the experience of contemporary urban life.

4.  The Italian sculptor _______ endeavored to incorporate motion into sculpture, as in his work Unique Forms of Continuity in Space.

5.  A horizontal beam supported only at one end and projecting far beyond the point of support is called a _______.

6.  The Swiss architect _______ proposed that modern architecture principles should imitate the efficiency of the machine, saying "the house is a machine for living."

7.  A leading force in modern dance theater was the _______, a dance company of expatriate Russians in Paris that included the talents of composer Igor Stravinsky and choreographer Vaslav Nijinsky.

Chapter 33  

1.  _______ is a technique of psychoanalysis that involves the spontaneous verbalization of thought.

2.  In his novel A la recherche du temps perdu, _______ explores the role of memory in shaping the interior, private life of the individual.

3.  The Irish writer _______ made the devices of interior monologue and free association central components of his fiction.

4.  Concrete poetry was created by the French writer _______.

5.  The expressionist style was pioneered by the Norwegian painter _______.

6.  The art movement known as _______ produced art using chance, accident, and outrageous behavior, and by this challenged rational order, artistic convention, and the nature of art itself.

7.  The surrealist painter named _______ used startling juxtapositions and trompe l'oeil style realism to create images that proclaim their own internal logic while testing our assumptions about the real world.

Chapter 34  

1.  The German writer _______ based his novel All Quiet on the Western Front on his experiences as a soldier on the front in World War I.

2.  The worldwide economic crisis known as the _______ began in late 1929 and lasted into the 1940s.

3.  The American photographer _______ traveled the country recording the plight of farm families fleeing the "dust bowl" conditions of the Depression-era midwestern plains states.

4.  The military alliance in World War II that included Germany, Italy, and (later) Japan was called the _______.

5.  An American air force bombardier in World War II, _______ later became a writer and wrote the black humor novel Catch-22, which relentlessly satirizes the nature of military bureaucracy.

6.  The _______ was the systematic Nazi program in which over 10 million people (including approximately 6 million Jews) died in slave labor camps and gas chambers.

7.  The overpowering mural by Picasso called _______ combines cubist and expressionist techniques to memorialize a small Basque town bombed by the German air force during the Spanish Civil War.

Chapter 35

1.  The British writer _______ was the author of the famous dystopic novel Brave New World, which presented a pessimistic vision of B. F. Skinner's "technology of behavior."

2.  The philosophy known as _______ claims that human beings have no fixed nature: our existence as material beings comes first; what we become in essence is a result of our choices and actions.

3.  The Christian existential theologian _______ urged Christians to cultivate humility and justice in modern life.

4.  The Indian writer and Nobel Prize winner _______ believed the crisis of modern society derived from misplaced values that put the rush of business and acquisition of material comforts ahead of beauty, creativity, and spiritual harmony.

5.  The Japanese radical art group called _______ harnessed physical action to chance in performance-centered art 'events'.

6.  The best-known of the abstract expressionist painters is _______, who developed a technique, called action painting, that made action itself the subject of the painting.

7.  The compositions of _______, one of the most influential avant-garde composers of the 20th century, embraced chance and experiment, process and accident.

Chapter 36  

1.  The Chilean poet _______ was one of the most prolific and inventive poets of the Spanish language.

2.  _______ was the first African American to make his living solely as a professional writer.

3.  President of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, _______ was one of the leaders of the African American struggle for civil rights in the 1950s and 60s.

4.  _______ was the author of Invisible Man, an important novel portraying the condition of life for African Americans in the mid-20th century.

5.  The most important composer and proponent of the musical style called "ragtime" was _______.

6.  The American composer _______ integrated the rhythms and musical idioms of jazz and blues into his compositions such as Rhapsody in Blue and the opera Porgy and Bess.

7.  The novelist and social critic _______ deconstructs the "myth of femininity" in her book The Second Sex.

8.  The artist _______ was the organizer of the collaborative art project that produced the room-sized sculpture called The Dinner Party.
 

1.  The French sociologist _______ believes that advertising in the age of mass media has had extremely negative consequences for human freedom.

2.  The school of philosophy known as _______ argues that human beings are prisoners of language at least as much as (or perhaps more than) they are the users of it.

3.  The label _______ is applied to the general cultural condition of the last 40 years of the 20th century, an era marked by a skeptical awareness that historical "reality" has been processed by mass communication and information technology.

4.  _______ is a literary style that mixes fantasy and realism in ways that evoke a dream-like or myth-like reality.

5.  The work of the American poet _______ concerns itself passionately with the survival of the planet.

6.  The science fiction film _______ was consciously designed by its director, _______ to be a mythic equivalent to the Epic of Gilgamesh, the Odyssey, and the Divine Comedy.
 

1.  _______ was one of the pioneers of American pop art, painting such subjects as Coca-Cola bottles, Campbell's soup cans, and Marilyn Monroe.

2.  The style called _______ explores the operation of conflicting visual cues and the elemental effects of colors and shapes on the perceptual functions of the human retina.

3.  The style known as _______ recreates on canvas the artificially processed view of reality captured by the photographic image.

4.  _______ seeks to transform society by reclaiming the power of ancient art to draw attention to communal problems and needs.

5.  By uniting the artistic conventions of Cultural Revolution propaganda posters with the imagery of consumer-driven commercialism, Chinese artist _______ implies that China has replaced one kind of collectivism (communism) with another kind of collectivism (consumerism).

6.  The practice called _______ takes the natural landscape as both its medium and its subject.

7.  The buildings of the deconstructivist architect _______ have tilting facades, leaning columns, and skewed interior spaces.

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