Humanities 15 - Here Are Lecture Notes For Chapter 15

1.What futuristic innovations were predicted by William Gibson in his 1984 novel, Neuromancer? -Genetic engineering 2.What did Robert Rauschenberg call his monumental assemblages of "found" images? -Combines 3.In ______ fiction, characters undergo little or no development, plots often lack logical direction, and events—whether ordinary, perverse, or fantastic—may be described in the detached tone of a newspaper article. -Postmodern 4.Works from Frank Stella's "Protractor" series are classified by what term? -Geometric Abstraction 5.Which author, in his novel Underworld, captures the cinematic rush of our media-driven infotopia, and the Postmodern penchant for mixing "high" and "low" elements? -Don DeLillo 6.What are features of the style known as New Realism? -Indifference to social issues -Representational content 7.Which of the following are characteristics of poetry of the last sixty years? -Concerns with global issues are common themes -Belief that language shapes and articulates the self 8.What work of environmental art is considered one of the most important of the late twentieth century? -Spiral Jetty 9.What is a primary feature of Pop art? -Realist imagery 10.Who is considered the "father of video art?" -Nam June Paik 11.Who monumentalized the art of assemblage in works that incorporate old items such as broken furniture, tires, and street signs? -Robert Rauschenberg 12.Traditional photography has undergone radical changes in the past sixty years in large part due to the proliferation of ______ photography. -digital 13.What characteristics can be found in the Geometric Abstraction works of Frank Stella, such as his "Protractor" series? -Machinelike purity -Simple shapes -Impersonal style 14.What aspect of New Media art adds digital information to real-time life? -Augmented reality 15.Duane Hanson's Tourists sculpture is an example of what style? -New Realism 16.Which film used pure CGI to depict alternate realities? -Avatar 17.Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty is an example of what type of art? -Environmental 18.What characteristics are common in the work of video artist Bill Viola? -Buddhist thought -Slow motion -Explorations of mortality 19.What features did Robert Venturi's theory of architectural Postmodernism emphasize? -Visual complexity -Individuality -Wit and playfulness 20.Which statements about contemporary photography are true? -Artists may produce photographs of images they did not themselves originally capture. -Some photographs are the result of digital manipulation. 21.The music of John Cage is ______, or based on chance or random procedures. -aleatoric