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20th Century Art History 2: quiz 1
20th Century Art History 2: quiz 1
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01/27/2013

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What event triggered the First World War?
Definition
Imperial Rivalries
Term
In what year did the First World War begin?
Definition
1914
Term
What five new military technologies were used for the first time in the First World War?
Definition

1. airplane

2. poison gas

3. tanks

4. machine gun

5. artillery pieces

Term
What did Dadaists think of the First World War?
Definition
a gross paradox in which the conflict ended by destroying precisely those aspects of civilization that it was being fought to protect
Term
Why did Dadaists reject the great art and literature of the European tradition?
Definition
they saw it as symbols of culture bent on mass suicide
Term
What was Tristan Tsara's definition of Dada?
Definition
a state of mind
Term
Where did Dada first emerge and in what year?
Definition

Europe and the US (Zurich, New York, Cologne, and Paris)

1916

Term
Who was the owner of the Cabaret Voltaire?
Definition
Hugo Ball
Term
Who wrote one of the important histories of Dada?
Definition
Richard Huelsenbeck
Term
What contributions did Tristan Tzara make to Dada?
Definition
introduced manifestos and 'noise music'
Term
What "new species of verse" did Hugo Ball claim to have invented?
Definition
'verse without words'
Term
What Dadaist is particularly known for his primitive looking masks?
Definition
Marcel Janco
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With what two techniques did Jean Arp experiment as a Dadaist?
Definition
accident and automatism
Term
What was automatism?
Definition
separating thought from practice
Term
What law did Arp say could only be experienced through complete devotion to the unconscious?
Definition
the law of chance
Term
How were Arp's Dadaist sculptures made?
Definition
making wooden reliefs on carpenter cut sections of wood
Term
In what medium was  Sophie Taeuber-Arp trained?
Definition
textiles
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Why did Jean Arp and Sophie Taeuber-Arp call their collaborative work an "art of silence"?
Definition
because they wanted it to simplify and transmute the world and make it beautiful
Term
What was the last year of Dada activity in Zürich?
Definition
1919
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At whose gallery did Francis Picabia first show his work in New York?
Definition
Alfred Steiglitz
Term
At whose home did the New York Dadaists frequently meet?
Definition
Walter Conrad
Term
What did Picabia mean by pensée pure?
Definition
themes perceived physically
Term
Why did Picabia call his magazine 391?
Definition
because it was a continuation of Stieglitz' 291
Term
What famous painting did Duchamp show at the New York Armory Show in 1913?
Definition
Nude Descending #2
Term
What did Duchamp call art that was not only an object in the world but also a fact in consciousness?
Definition
readymades
Term
What did Duchamp use as a ready-made for In Advance of the Broken Arm?
Definition
snow shovel
Term
Why did Duchamp inscribe sentences on his ready-mades?
Definition
to carry the mind of the speculator toward other regions more verbal
Term
How was Duchamp's The Bride Stripped Bare by her Bachelors, Even finished?
Definition
after being broken and repaired
Term
According to Duchamp, to does the pendu femelle in The Bride stripped Bare indicate?
Definition
a 4th dimension
Term
Who was A. Klang?
Definition
a commercial painter
Term
How did Duchamp alter a poster of the Mona Lisa?
Definition
drew a moustache, beard, and added L.H.O.O.Q
Term
Who was Rose Sélavy?
Definition
Duchamp
Term
To what did Duchamp devote himself after giving up making art?
Definition
chess
Term
What did Duchamp use to make an installation at the Surrealist exhibition in New York in 1942?
Definition
twine
Term
What can you see if you look through the holes in the door of Duchamp's Being Given….?
Definition
A bed of leaves and branches on which a life-like nude woman is lying
Term
How was Man Ray nearly decapitated in 1920? 
Definition
he was narrowly missed by flying shards from a spinning shattered plate
Term
How did Man Ray produce his Rayographs?
Definition
by placing objects on photo paper and exposing it to light before developing it
Term
To what medium did Man Ray become most devoted during the latter part of his career?
Definition
photography
Term
What did German Dadaists do that later led the Nazis to condemn all avant-garde art?
Definition
allied themselves with the radical Marxists in Russia
Term
In what city did Richard Huelsenbeck found a German Dada movement?
Definition
Berlin
Term
What medium did many German Dadaists use because artists’ supplies were not readily available in Germany after the war?
Definition
caricatures and photomontages
Term
In what German city did Max Ernst help to create a Dada movement?
Definition
Cologne
Term
What did visitors encounter when they entered the Dada exhibition organized by Ernst and Baargeld in Cologne?
Definition

-a young girl wearing a communion dress and reading obscene poetry.

-a large wooden sculpture that visitors destroyed with an axe

Term
With whom did Ernst create works called Fatagaga?
Definition
Arp
Term
What did Schwitters say that art was instead of expression?
Definition
consisted of "composition"
Term
What did Schwitters call all of his work?
Definition
Merz
Term
What did the term Merzbau describe?
Definition
Merz architecture
Term
Where was the De Stijl movement organized?
Definition
Amsterdam
Term
What kind of style were the De Stijl artists concerned with creating?
Definition
geometrically non-objective painting
Term
What is another name for the De Stijl movement?
Definition
The Style
Term
To what in nature did Mondrian’s “plus and minus” compositions refer?
Definition
to evoke movement of the ocean against the piers of a dock
Term
What did Schoenmaekers, and important influence on Mondrian, identify as the underlying principle of construction in nature?
Definition
The christian cross
Term
What did “equivalent terms” describe for Mondrian?
Definition
dynamic and static
Term
Where did Mondrian spend the last years of his life?
Definition
New York
Term
What kind of music inspired Mondrian in his last works?
Definition
Jazz
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