MH Art History and Visual Culture 2

Question 1

Which theoretical framework analyzes how museums construct meaning and exercise power over the objects they display?

Accepted Answer

New Museology

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Connoisseurship

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Iconography

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Formalism

Question 2

Erwin Panofsky's iconological method involves how many levels of meaning in analyzing an artwork?

Accepted Answer

Three

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Two

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Four

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Five

Question 3

The Abstract Expressionist movement of the 1940s–50s was centered primarily in which U.S. city?

Accepted Answer

New York City

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Chicago

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Los Angeles

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San Francisco

Question 4

Which term describes artworks that use everyday manufactured objects, pioneered by Marcel Duchamp's 'Fountain' (1917)?

Accepted Answer

Readymade

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Assemblage

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Installation

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Collage

Question 5

The principle of 'linear perspective,' allowing realistic depiction of three-dimensional space on a flat surface, was codified in the Renaissance by:

Accepted Answer

Filippo Brunelleschi

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Leon Battista Alberti

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Giorgio Vasari

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Andrea Palladio

Question 6

In visual culture studies, 'representation' refers primarily to:

Accepted Answer

How images construct meaning and shape understanding of the world

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The accurate depiction of reality in art

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The reproduction of artworks for mass distribution

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The documentation of historical events through imagery