MH Art History and Visual Culture 3

Question 1

Walter Benjamin's essay 'The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction' argues that reproduction causes a work to lose its:

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Aura

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Symbolism

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Iconography

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Patina

Question 2

Which art movement of the 1960s used commercial imagery, mass-media sources, and consumer culture as its primary subject matter?

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Pop Art

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Minimalism

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Conceptual Art

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Land Art

Question 3

Which feminist art historian asked 'Why have there been no great women artists?' in a landmark 1971 essay?

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Linda Nochlin

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Griselda Pollock

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Lucy Lippard

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Mary Cassatt

Question 4

The Bauhaus school, founded in Germany in 1919, sought to integrate:

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Fine arts and functional crafts

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Religion and secular art

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Eastern and Western aesthetics

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Photography and painting

Question 5

Which photographic theory, developed by Roland Barthes in 'Camera Lucida,' describes the personal, puncturing element of a photograph that affects the viewer emotionally?

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Punctum

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Studium

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Index

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Simulacrum

Question 6

Which term describes the practice of artists appropriating and recontextualizing existing images or objects, prominent in postmodern art?

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Appropriation

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Bricolage

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Pastiche

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Mimicry