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- • Question 1
- 3 out of 3 points
- Which of these best describes Frank Gehry's design process?
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- it is fluid and experimental
- • Question 2
- 3 out of 3 points
- Maidens and Stewards, a Parthenon fragment of the Panathenaic Procession, illustrates a _______, or sculptural band, often used by the Greeks to embellish their architecture.
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- frieze
- • Question 3
- 3 out of 3 points
- Created entirely from _______, Case of Bottles by the California Funk artist Robert Arneson illustrates the modeling sculptural process.
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- clay
- • Question 4
- 3 out of 3 points
- Notre Dame Cathedral, in Paris, is an example of _______ architecture.
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- Gothic
- • Question 5
- 3 out of 3 points
- Allan Kaprow created "assemblages of events performed or perceived in more than one time and place." (p. 313) He called these:
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- Selected Answer:
- happenings.
- • Question 6
- 3 out of 3 points
- The Greek Kouros (p. 292) illustrates the idea of shifting or counter positioning weight around the axis of the spine in figurative sculpture. This pose is called:
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- contrapposto.
- • Question 7
- 3 out of 3 points
- Auguste Rodin's The Burghers of Calais (p. 300) is a remarkable example of which type of sculpture?
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- in-the-round
- • Question 8
- 3 out of 3 points
- In the Gothic period, when Notre Dame de Paris was built (p. 358), architects preferred to use:
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- pointed arches.
- • Question 9
- 3 out of 3 points
- The material most often associated with the process of "casting" is:
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- bronze.
- • Question 10
- 3 out of 3 points
- Louis Sullivan utilized this type of construction in the late 19th century in Chicago to build increasingly tall buildings.
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- steel and reinforced concrete
- • Question 11
- 3 out of 3 points
- What do Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty and Great Serpent Mound have in common?
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- Selected Answer:
- they are both earthworks, purposeful modifications of landscape
- • Question 12
- 3 out of 3 points
- In Sky Cathedral (p. 303) the artist Louise Nevelson has combined found materials to create a sculpture. What is this process called?
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- Selected Answer:
- assemblage
- • Question 13
- 3 out of 3 points
- The Seagram Building, designed by Philip Johnson and Mies van der Rohe is a perfect example of ___________ in architecture.
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- Selected Answer:
- the International Style
- • Question 14
- 3 out of 3 points
- The Yoruba Display Piece (p. 303) produced for an oba, or king, is meant to reflect the king's power and _______.
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- Selected Answer:
- the power of the community's women and the king's incompleteness without them
- • Question 15
- 3 out of 3 points
- The Anasazi cliffside caves at Mesa Verde (p. 350) show the roofs of two _______, which are the underground space for ceremonial life.
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- Selected Answer:
- kivas
- • Question 16
- 3 out of 3 points
- Pliable clay is made to hold its form permanently (p. 296) through the process of:
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- firing it.
- • Question 17
- 3 out of 3 points
- What building method was used for the construction of the Egyptian pyramids (p. 348)?
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- load bearing
- • Question 18
- 3 out of 3 points
- Wood and stone carvings (p. 287) are examples of:
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- subtractive sculpture.
- • Question 19
- 3 out of 3 points
- The Seagram Building, designed Mies van der Rohe and Philip Johnson, is an example of the International Style, a type of architecture marked by:
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- austere geometric simplicity.
- • Question 20
- 3 out of 3 points
- When and where was the use of the arch in Western architecture perfected?
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- in Rome around the 1st century B.C.E.
- • Question 21
- 3 out of 3 points
- By the late fourteenth century, the African kingdom of Benin had developed tremendous refinement (p. 298) in the art of:
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- Selected Answer:
- brass casting.
- • Question 22
- 3 out of 3 points
- How is performance art different from traditional sculpture?
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- Selected Answer:
- All of the above.
- • Question 23
- 3 out of 3 points
- When and why were the Pyramids at Giza built?
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- Selected Answer:
- roughly 4500 years ago to be used as tombs and monuments for deceased pharaohs
- • Question 24
- 3 out of 3 points
- Johnson and Burgee's University of Houston, College of Architecture is said to be a postmodern building because it:
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- borrows from many different styles and time periods to create a kind of "history of Western architecture."
- • Question 25
- 3 out of 3 points
- The "look" of our buildings and communities (p. 348) depends on two different factors and their interrelation. What are those factors?
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- topography and technology
- • Question 26
- 3 out of 3 points
- Which of these is not a basic principle of "green architecture"?
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- buildings that make maximum use of energy supplies like coal and nuclear power
- • Question 27
- 3 out of 3 points
- Frank Lloyd Wright designed several houses (p. 366) that were based on the "vastness of the western landscape" and were "of the land, not just on the land." What did he call this style of house?
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- the Prairie House
- • Question 28
- 3 out of 3 points
- A sculptural space that you can actually enter (p. 290) is referred to as:
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- an environment.
- • Question 29
- 3 out of 3 points
- Frederick Olmsted conceived of a residential community outside the city, but within commuting distance (p. 378), that became an integral part of American life. What was it?
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- Selected Answer:
- the suburb
- • Question 30
- 3 out of 3 points
- How did Gothic architects compensate for the lateral thrust (p. 358) of the cathedrals?
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- Selected Answer:
- with flying buttresses
- • Question 31
- 3 out of 3 points
- Richard Serra's The Matter of Time is:
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- b & c.
- • Question 32
- 3 out of 3 points
- The Romans created larger interior spaces in architecture than the Greeks (p. 354) because:
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- they combined the use of the arch with the use of concrete.
- • Question 33
- 3 out of 3 points
- The sculptural material most commonly associated with "modeling" or additive processes is:
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- Selected Answer:
- clay.
- • Question 34
- 3 out of 3 points
- The Egyptian limestone carving, Senwosret I led by Atum to Amun-Re (p. 287), is an example of ________________sculpture.
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- Selected Answer:
- low relief
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